νηστ-εία, ἡ,
fast, νηστεῖαι καὶ ὁρταί [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.186, cf. LXX.Isa.1.13, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.2.40, NT.Act.27.9; νηστείην φέρειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.13 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; νηστείας ὄζειν [[compare (νῆστις 1.2) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 908b12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; at Athens, name for the third day of the Thesmophoria, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.307f, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.39, compare “PCair.Zen.” 350.5 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]