bastard, baseborn,
νόθ-ος,η,ον, alsoος,ον( Call. Fr. 279 ),
A. bastard, baseborn,i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od. ), ν. υἱός
Il. 2.727
, etc.; παῖδες ν.
Hdt. 8.103
, Pl. Ap. 27d ; opp.γνήσιος,
Il. 11.102 , Ar. Av. 1650 ;ὅδ', εἰ ν.τις, γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει
S. Fr. 87 ; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε
Ep.Hebr. 12.8
: fem., κούρη νόθη
Il. 13.173
.
2. at Athens,child of a citizen father and an alien mother,
D. 23.213 , etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός
Plu. Them. 1
.
3. pl., in Egypt, a class oftemple-attendants,Wilcken Chr. 66
(iii B.C.).
4. of animals,cross-bred,
πρόβατα
PHib. 1.32.15
(iii B.C.).
II. generally,spurious, counterfeit, supposititious,of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν.
Pl. Ti. 52b
, cf. Dam. Pr. 26 ; ν. παιδείᾳ
Pl. Lg. 741a
; ν. ἡδοναί
Id. R. 587c
;ἀοιδαίCall.l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν
Arist. PA 669b28
;αἱ ν. πλευραίthefalseribs, Paus. 1.35.6 , Gal. UP 4.9 , Aret. SA 2.6 ; ν. πυρετός
Gal. 11.30
;ν. σάλπιγξ,of a serpent's hiss, Nonn. D. 35.214 ;ν. φέγγος,of the moon, opp.γνήσιον,of the sun, Ph. 1.628 ; ν. ἱματισμός meretricious, Peripl.M.
Rubr. 39
, 49 .Adv.
-θως insincerely, disingenuously,
LXX 3 Ma. 3.17
, cf. Hsch.
2. of literary works,spurious,
Porph. Plot. 16 .
