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νομαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νομαῖος νομαῖη νομαῖον

Structure: νομαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = nomadiko/s, Anth.

Sense

Examples

  • γλῶσσα δὲ ἄλλη αὐτοῖσι τοῖσι καὶ ἄλλα νόμαια. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 25 2:2)
  • Δάφνισ ἐγώ, Λυκίδασ τε πατήρ, μήτηρ δὲ Νομαία. (Theocritus, Idylls, 55)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῷ πλεῦσαι τὴν μεγάλην θάλασσαν ἐστάλθαι, ἀλλ̓ ἐπὶ τῷ καταμαθεῖν τὴν χώραν τὴν προσεχῆ τῇ θαλάσσῃ καὶ τοὺσ κατοικοῦντασ αὐτὴν ἀνθρώπουσ, ὁρ́μουσ τε ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ ὕδατα καὶ τὰ νόμαια τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ εἴ τισ ἀγαθὴ καρποὺσ ἐκφέρειν ἢ εἴ τισ κακή· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 20 10:1)
  • ξεινικὰ δὲ νόμαια Πέρσαι προσίενται ἀνδρῶν μάλιστα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 135 2:1)
  • νόμαιά τε κινέει πάτρια καὶ βιᾶται γυναῖκασ κτείνει τε ἀκρίτουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 80 6:4)

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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