νέφος, εος, τό,
cloud, mass of clouds, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.275, +others; σμικροῦ νέφους ἐκπνεύσας μέγας χειμών 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1148; ν. ὄμβριον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 288 (Lyric poetry); ν. καὶ ὁμίχλη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 49c; τὸν κίνδυνον παρελθεῖν ὥσπερ ν. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.188. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically [[compare (νεφέλη 1.2), θανάτου δὲ μέλαν ν. ἀμφεκάλυψεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.350, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.180, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.64; λάθας ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκότου ν., of blindness, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1314 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. οἰμωγῆς, στεναγμῶν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 107 (_anapaest meter_), “HF” 1140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀφρύων ν. a cloud upon the brow, [[ [prev. author] “Hipp.” 172 (_anapaest meter_); ὑπὸ τοῦ μετώπου οἷον ν. ἐπανεστηκός 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 809b22; διασκεδᾶτε τὸ προσὸν νῦν ν. ἐπὶ τοῦ προσώπου 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 58. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, also, a cloud of men, etc., ν. πεζῶν, Τρώων, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.274, 16.66 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ψαρῶν, κολοιῶν,[[ 17.755; ν. τοσοῦτον ἀνθρώπων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.109 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πενεστάων ν.[[ Timo 39; μαρτύρων NT.Heb.12.1 ] NT]; πολέμοιο ν. the cloud of battle, thick of the fight, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.243, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1090: applied by 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.9 to a single hero: used by Prose writers for poetry νεφέλη (which see)] Refs 8th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit nábhas 'fog', 'cloud', Slavonic nebo 'heaven', Latin nebula.)