νόσ-ημα,
Ionic dialect νούσ-, ατος, τό, (νοσέω) disease, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 1, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 755, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 656, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 53, etc.; τὰ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.39; νοσήμασι περιπίπτειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.27; νοσήματα τῶν σπερμάτων 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.10.1; [τῶν φυτῶν] [prev. work] 4.14.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, of passion, vice, etc., ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι ν. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 227; ν. γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους [prev. work] 685; νοσοῖμ᾽ ἄν, εἰ ν. τοὺς ἐχθροὺς στυγεῖν [prev. work] 978 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of love, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 149.1; τὸ ν. τῆς ἀδικίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 480b, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.103. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b of any grievous affliction, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1293 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of disorder in a state, τυραννίδα.. ἔσχατον πόλεως ν. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 544c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.259, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]