νεᾱνισκ-ος,
Ionic dialect νεην-, ὁ, (νεάν) youth, young man, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.374.162, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.72, 112, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 211d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1303b21, Anon.Hist.(“FGrH” 160) p.887 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. τὸ εἶδος (nisi to be read νεανικός) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.5; in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53 the same youth is called both νεηνίης and νεηνίσκος] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but in [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.6 and 8 the same person is called ν. and μειράκιον,] Refs 5th c.BC+] and the eldest son of Socrates is called νεανίσκος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.1, but μειράκιον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 34d; ἔν τε παισὶ καὶ ν. καὶ ἐν ἀνδράσι [prev. author] “R.” 413e; παῖς εἴκοσι ἔτεα, νεηνίσκος εἴκοσι, νεηνίης εἴκοσι, γέρων εἴκοσι 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.10, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑβδομάδων - Die Hippokratische Schrift von der Siebenzahl” 5: more frequently than νεανίας] Refs 5th c.BC+] in later Gr., Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 30i4 (3rd-2nd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.36.12, NT.Matt.19.20, etc. ] NT+3rd c.BC+]
__2 ὁ ἐμὸς ν. my young man, i.e. servant, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 53; perhaps also, “PCair.Zen.” 18.6 (3rd c.BC), NT.Mark.14.51: _plural_, uncertain meaning, “PCair.Zen.” 153 (3rd c.BC, written νενίσκοις). ] NT+3rd c.BC+]