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νόος, νόου, ὁ,
Attic dialect contraction νοῦς, genitive νοῦ: [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] uses the contraction form once, in nominative, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.240, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 205 (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus never)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Trag. use contraction form, except in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 742 (iambic), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1209 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Aeolic dialect genitive νῶ [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 9.1; _accusative_ νῶν Sapph.[prev. work]25.2; νόον Ead.70 (assuming variant)] Refs 7th c.BC+]: irregular forms are found in “NT” and later writers, genitive νοός [[ NT.Rom.7.23, LXX.4Mac.1.35; _dative_ νοΐ NT.1Cor.1.10, [2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor] “Or.” 35(9).26; _nominative_ _plural_ νόες 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.86, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.17, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 96; _accusative_ _plural_ νόας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fragmenta - fragment uncertainFragmenta incerta” 7.27, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 1.15, 5th c.AD: Ammonius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Interpretatione commentarius - pars” 243.3 (variant), 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 103: _Attic dialect_ _plural_ νοῖ, _accusative_ νοῦς, _genitive_ νόων [prev. work] 122, _dative_ νοῖς [prev. passage]] LXX+NT+1st c.AD+], is rare in early writers, as [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 471, but frequently in later philosophy: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__1 mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν ν. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.461; ν. πολυκερδέα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.255; ν. ὁρῇ καὶ ν. ἀκούει, τἄλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 249, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 371 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νόῳ prudently, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.320 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παρὲκ νόον senselessly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.133 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σὺν νόῳ wisely, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.86, 138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξὺν νῷ with play on ξυνῷ, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 114 (νόῳ codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes); ξὺν νῷ ἑλομένῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619b; οὐδενὶ ξὺν νῷ [prev. author] “Cri.” 48c; μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 580; τοῦ νοῦ χωρίς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 550; τοῦ ν. κενός [prev. author] “OC” 931 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νόῳ λαβεῖν τι to apprehend it, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νόῳ σχεῖν, ἔχειν, recall, remember, [[ [prev. author] 5.92.ή, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 490a; κοινὸς ν. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.37 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.6.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀγαθὸς ν., σπουδαῖος ν., [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.61, 1.252 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 νοῦν ἔχειν in two senses,
__2.a to have sense, be sensible, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 553, “El.” 1013, 1465, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 535, etc.; ὁ νοῦς ὅδ᾽ αὐτὸς ν. ἔχων οὐ τυγχάνει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ν. ὀλίγον κεκτημένος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 747; σμικρὸν νοῦ κεκτῆσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887e; _impersonal_, τὸ γὰρ περισσὰ πράσσειν οὐκ ἔχει ν. οὐδένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 68, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νουνεχόντως.
__2.b νοῦν or τὸν ν. ἔχειν to have one's mind directed to something, ἄλλοσ᾽ ὄμμα, θητέρᾳ δὲ ν. ἔχειν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 272, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.2; τὸν ν. πρὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ ἔχων, ἐκεῖσε δέ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1418; δεῦρο ν. ἔχε [prev. author] “Or.” 1181; οἴκοι τὸν ν. ἔχειν [prev. author] “Ion” 251 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ποῦ τὸν ν. ἔχει; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 156 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ν. ἔχειν πρός τινα or τι (like προσέχειν τὸν ν.) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 504d; πρός τινι [prev. author] “Prt.” 324a, etc.; περί τινος [prev. author] “R.” 534b; ἐν πέρδιξιν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.206 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus): conversely, ἐπὶ νοῦν ἐλθεῖν τινι] Refs 5th c.BC+] to occur to one, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.15, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.24.3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 mind, more widely, as employed in feeling, deciding, etc., heart, χαῖρε νόῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.78; κεῦθε νόῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.363; [χόλος] οἰδάνει νόον 9.554; ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀτάρβητος ν. ἐστί 3.63 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ν. ἔμπεδος, ἀκήλητος, ἀπηνής,[[ 11.813, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.329, 18.381 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ν. εὐμενής, ἄγναμπτος, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 164 (Lyric poetry), etc.; πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων νόον ἔγνω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ παντὸς νόου with all his heart and soul, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ νῷ.. κἀπὸ τῆς γλώσσης in heart as well as tongue, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 936: frequently in phrase κατὰ νόον] Refs 5th c.BC+] according to one's mind, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.117, 7.104; εἰ τάδ᾽ ἔχει κατὰ νοῦν κείνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1768 (_anapaest meter_); πράξειας κατὰ ν. τὸν ἐμόν [prev. author] “fragment” 469 (_anapaest meter_); κατὰ ν. πράξας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 549; χωρεῖ κατὰ ν. [prev. author] “Pax” 940, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 mind, resolve, purpose, ἀγαθῷ νόῳ, i.e. kindly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί σοι ἐν νόῳ ἐστὶ ποιέει; what do you intend to do? [[[prev. work] 109 ] Refs]; ἡμῖν ἐν ν. ἐγένετο εἰπεῖν [[ [prev. author] 9.46 ] Refs]; ἐν ν. ἔχειν with future infinitive, to intend.., [[ [prev. author] 1.10 (variant)] Refs]: with present infinitive,[[ [prev. work] 27, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποιέειν τι ἐπὶ νόον τινί to put into his mind to do.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ νόον τρέπειν τινί.. [[ [prev. author] 3.21; ταύτῃ [ὁ] ν. ἔφερε [prev. author] 9.120. ] Refs]
__5 reason, intellect, νόου φρενί [[ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 25, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 16.2, etc.; θεῖος ν. 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 112, compare [prev. author] cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 404a28 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; opposed to δόξα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 51d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5.b “Mind” as the active principle of the Universe, [[ 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 12, etc.; Θαλῆς νοῦν τοῦ κόσμου τὸν θεόν “Placita Philosophorum” 1.7.11; ἡ τοῦ κόσμου γένεσις ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νοῦ συστάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 48a, compare “Sph.” 249a, “Phlb.” 30c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1072b20, “de An.” 430a17, 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.28, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II act of mind, thought, ἡμῖν δ᾽ οὔ τις τοῦδε νόος καὶ μῆτις ἀμείνων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.509; οὐ γάρ τις νόον ἄλλος ἀμείνονα τοῦδε νοήσει 9.104; οὐ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτή 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 purpose, design, νόον τελεῖν τινι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.149; σάφα οἶσθ᾽ οἷος ν. Ἀτρεΐωνος 2.192. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III sense, meaning of a word, etc., οὗτος ὁ νόος τοῦ ῥήματος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.162, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1439, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.83.4, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.106 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ νόος τῆς θυσίης conjecture for νόμος in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.216 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; meaning of a work of art, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.28; πολὺς ν. ἐν ὀλίγῃ λέξει συνέσταλται 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.510e ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν νοῦν to the same effect, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.3.7 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; πρὸς νοῦν οὐδὲν λέγοντες to the point, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.96K.; οὐδὲ νοῦν ἔχον ] Refs 1st c.BC+]senseless, [[ [prev. author] “Po.” 5.29. ] Refs]
__IV [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus name for μονάς, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 6. (Etym. uncertain; the _proper name_ Πολυνόϝα “IG” 9(1).870 hardly proves νόϝος.) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
