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future νεμῶ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 513, (ἀπο-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 65b, later νεμήσω 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 2.23: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἔνειμα, Epic dialect νεῖμα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.274: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect νενέμηκα (δια-) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.45:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, νέμομαι, future νεμοῦμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.64, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.203 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect νεμέομαι (ἀνα-) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.173; later νεμήσομαι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.71, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 14, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐνειμάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.21, etc. (ἐνεμησάμην] Refs 5th c.BC+] is falsa lectio in [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 10, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (ὑπο-)):—passive, future νεμηθήσομαι [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agis” 14 (also νεμήσομαι] Refs 1st c.AD+] in passive sense (δια-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.3)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐνεμήθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 849c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (also in middle sense (κατ-) [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 34, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 15.677e)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: perfect νενέμημαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 144d, etc. (also in middle sense, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.35).— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] uses of the active, only present, imperfect, and aorist; of the middle, present and imperfect
__A deal out, dispense, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, especially of meat and drink, μοίρας, κύπελλα, κρέα, μέθυ ν., 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.470, 10.357, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.217, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.179, compare “IG” 12.10.3, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ γεωνόμοι νειμάντων τὴν γῆν [[[prev. work]45.7: then generally, ] Refs]distribute, of the gods, Ζεὺς.. νέμει ὄλβον.. ἀνθρώποισιν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.188; Ζεὺς τά τε καὶ τὰ νέμει 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).52, compare “P.” 5.55; θεῶν τὰ ἴς α νεμόντων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.11, 109; Ζεὺς νέμων εἰκότως ἄδικα μὲν κακοῖς, ὅσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 403 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [Διὶ] τὸν ὑπεραλγῆ χόλον ν. leave vengeance to Zeus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 176 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, ν. δευτερεῖά τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32; τρίτον μέρος τῶν σκύλων τισί 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μοῖραν ν. τινί pay one due honour, respect, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 294 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μητρὸς τιμὰς ν. respect her privileges, [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 624 (but πρόσω ν. τιμάς] Refs] extend one's privileges,[[ [prev. work] 747); Λύκῳ κῆπον Εὐβοίας νέμει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Πολυκράτης μητέρα νέμει P. allots a mother (to you), proverbial in [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 63 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; εἰ πατρὸς νέμοι τιν᾽ ὤραν τοῦ καλῶς πράσσειν δοκεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 57; τὸ σὸν γέρας τιμὴν ἐμοὶ ν. [prev. author] “Ph.” 1062; ἐκείνῳ.. αἰτίαν νέμει [prev. author] “Aj.” 28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. αἵρεσιν give one a choice,[[ [prev. work] 265; ναύταις οὐκέθ᾽ ὁδὸν νέμει ] Refs]affords, vouchsafes, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 745 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ πιστὸν τῆς ἀληθείας ν. observe it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 398; τῷ.. ὄχλῳ πλέον ν. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 868; μήτε οἴκτῳ πλέον ν. μήτ᾽ ἐπιεικείᾳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.48; τὸ ἧσσον ἀδικίᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 380 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ φθόνῳ πλέον μέρος[[ [prev. work] 241; τὸ πλεῖστον ἡμέρας τούτῳ μέρος [prev. author] “fragment” 183; ἔλασσόν τινι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.10; χάριν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 384; πενίᾳ καὶ πλούτῳ τιμὴν ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 696a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of judges, κολαστὴν.. θάνατον ν.[[ [prev. work] 863a; συγγνώμην τισί 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.753 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with infinitive, νεῖμεν ἐμοὶ τέρψιν ὁμιλεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1201 (Lyric poetry):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, νέμεται ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἕλληνας is freely bestowed upon them, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].α; κρέα νενεμημένα portions of meat, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλεῖστα μέρη ἡ οὐσία νενεμημένη distributed into.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 144d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 pay out, distribute a bandage, in active and passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 8, 22, “Fract.” 4, 16, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 4, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 allot, distribute in groups, πρὸς τὴν λῆξιν ἑκάστην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 30.3, compare 31.3 (_passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νεῖμαί τινας ἐς τὰς φυλὰς δέκαχα [[ “IG” 22.1.33 ] Refs]:—passive, ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς ἑκάστης νενεμημέναι τριττύες τρεῖς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 8.3, compare 63.4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II middle, distribute among themselves: hence, have and hold as one's portion, possess, πατρώϊα πάντα νέμεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.336: mostly of land, τεμένεα, τέμενος, 11.185, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.313; ἔργα 2.751, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 119 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐνειμάμην (i.e. οὐσίαν) [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.10, compare 19.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τἄλλα νεμομένη administering.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.165 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ μέταλλα, τὰ ἐμπόρια, [[ [prev. author] 7.112, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.100 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τὰ λήμματα] ἃ νέμεσθε which you enjoy, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.33: _absolutely_, ἔμ᾽ οἴεσθ᾽ ὑμῖν εἰσοίσειν ὑμᾶς δὲ νεμεῖσθαι] Refs 4th c.BC+]; that you shall reap the fruit, [[ [prev. author] 21.203. ] Refs]
__II.2 reap the fruit of: hence, dwell in, inhabit, ἄλσεα νέμεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently with names of places, spread over, occupy a country, Ἰθάκην, Ὑρίην νέμεσθαι, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.167, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.496; ἀγρούς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.150; τὸ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.19, etc.; νεμόμενοι τὰ αὑτῶν.. ὅσον ἀποζῆν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2.b generally, enjoy, προσόδους [[ “BGU” 256.9 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2.c of cities, to be situated upon, τὸν Ἄθων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, compare 123 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, ἄχρι τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆσδε τὸ ἄστυ τῇδε νενέμηται [[ “IG” 12.893; compare νέμησις 11.1. ] Refs]
__II.3 in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+], of Time, spend, pass, αἰῶνα, ἁμέραν, [[ “O.” 2.66, “N.” 10.56 ] Refs]: absolutely, live, ἡσυχᾷ νεμόμενος [[ “P.” 11.55. ] Refs]
__III from [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] onwards, active is found in sense of middle, hold, possess, ἕδος Ὀλύμπου ν. [[ “O.” 2.12; ἔνδον ν. πλοῦτον κρυφαῖον “I.” 1.67 ] Refs]; inhabit, γῆν ν. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.191; χωρίον κοινῇ ν. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.42; πόλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 879 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅτι πλείστους ν. ἄνδρας to have as many husbands as possible, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 11.13.11 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: absolutely, hold land, occupy, dwell, ν. περὶ τὴν λίμνην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.188 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of places, to be inhabited, πάντα ὑπὸ βαρβάροισι νέμεται [[ [prev. author] 7.158 ] Refs]: absolutely, of a country, maintain itself, be constituted, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 hold sway over, manage, πόλιν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.59, 5.29; τὰς Ἀθήνας [prev. work] 71, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λαόν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.27; πάντα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 526 (Lyric poetry); ἀστραπᾶν κράτη ν. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 201 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κράτη καὶ θρόνους[[ [prev. work] 237, compare “Aj.” 1016; σύνοδον “OGI” 50.3 (Ptolemais, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὸν μέγαν Πακτωλὸν εὔχρυσον νέμεις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 393 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἴακα ν. wield, manage it, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 802 (_anapaest meter_); ἀσπίδ᾽ εὔκυκλον ν. [prev. author] “Th.” 590 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἰσχὺν ν. ἐπὶ σκήπτροις support oneself on staves, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 75 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs]; ν. γλῶσσαν use the tongue, [[[prev. work] 685 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ν. πόδα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, hold sway, ὃς Συρακόσσαισι ν. [[ [prev. author] “P.” 3.70. ] Refs]
__III.3 hold, consider as.., σὲ νέμω θεόν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 150 (Lyric poetry), compare 598, “Tr.” 483, “Aj.” 1331 (so in _passive_, οὐδέ μοι ἐμμελέως τὸ Πιττάκειον νέμεται] Refs 5th c.BC+] seems not to me fitly said, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 5.9): in Prose, προστάτην νέμειν τινά] Refs 4th c.BC+] register as one's patron, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.53, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 21, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1275a12; ἡγεμόνα ν. τινά 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus “Fragmenta Historica - FHG” 17J. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀθλητῶν τοὺς μὴ νενεμημένους ἢ σεσωμασκηκότας unproved athletes, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.47.8. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__IV call over, recite, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ={ἀναγινώσκω}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__B of herdsmen, pasture, graze their flocks, drive to pasture, absolutely, ἐπῆλθε νέμων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.233 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [χώραν] ἱκανὴν νέμειν τε καὶ ἀροῦν both for pasture and tillage, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 373d: with _accusative_, ὁ μὲν ἵππους νέμων, ὁ δὲ βοῦς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.137; μῆλα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 28, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κτήνη πληγῇ ν. drive them afield with blows, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109c, compare 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 11 (_passive_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 more frequently in middle, of cattle, feed, graze, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.777, 15.631, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.407, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.115, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with accusative loci, range over, ὡς λέαινα.. δρύοχα νεμομένα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1163 (Lyric poetry); κολοιοὶ ταπεινὰ ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative cognate, feed on, νέμεαι.. ἄνθεα ποίης [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.449; νομάς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.78; χλόην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 735; τὰ λευκὰ σήσαμα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 159 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of men, eat, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 709 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2.b metaphorically, of fire, consume, devour, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.177, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.101; also τὸ ψεῦδος.. νέμεται τὴν ψυχήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.165a. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.2.c in Medicine texts, absolutely, of ulcers, spread, ἐνέμετο πρόσω [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.133, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.9.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of gangrene, probably in [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.103 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of thrush, [[ 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.995; ἐπὶ μᾶλλον ν. 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.9; ἐς τὸ εἴσω ν. [prev. passage];] Refs 3rd c.BC+] of a swelling, ὄγκος νεμόμενος [[ 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 17.1. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__B.II with accusative loci, ὄρη νέμειν graze the hills [with cattle], [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [τὸ ὄρος] νέμεται αἰξὶ καὶ βουσί [[ [prev. author] “An.” 4.6.17. ] Refs]
__B.II.2 metaphorically, πυρὶ νέμειν πόλιν waste a city by fire, give it to the flames, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.33:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, πυρὶ χθὼν νέμοιτο were being devoured, wasted by fire, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.780; πυρὶ νέμεται.. ἡ φάλαγξ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 18 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]. (Cf. OHG. neman 'take', Avest. n[schwa]mah- 'loan', Lithuanian nuoma 'rent', 'usury'.)
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