A.younger, “γενεῆφι ν.” Il. 21.439; “ὢν φύσει ν.” S.OC1295; too young, Od.21.132; a minor, Th. 3.26; “οἱ ν.” men of military age, Id.5.50; τὸ πρεσβύτερόν τε καὶ τὸ ν. ib.64: c. gen., οἱ ν. τῶν πεπραγμένων those who are too young to remember the events, D.18.50; οἱ ν. the new school, of poets, Cic.Att.7.2.1; of poets later than Homer, Sch.Il.16.574, 24.257.
2. Sup., “γενεῇ δὲ νεώτατος ἔσκον ἁπάντων” Il.7.153, etc.; ἡ ν. δημοκρατία, opp. ἡ πατρία δ., Arist.Pol.1305a29.
II. of events, newer, more recent, “νεώτερον κακόν” Pi.P.4.155; of recent origin, “Δημόκριτος μουσικήν φησι ν. εἶναι” Phld.Mus.p.108K.: metaph., later, worse, “ν. βούλευμα” S.Ph. 560; νεώτερον πρήσσειν contrive calamity, injury, Hdt.5.106: freq. with τι“, ἤν τι καταλαμβάνῃ ν. τὸν πεζὸν [στρατόν]” Id.8.21; “δέδοικα μή τι δρᾷ ν.” Ar.Ec.338, cf. Pi.Fr.107.6, Theoc.24.40; μή τι ν. ἀγγέλλεις; Pl.Prt.310b; “νεώτερόν τι ποιεῖν ἔς τινα” Th.1.132; “κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Hdt.8.142; “περὶ πόλιν Ἑλλάδα” Id.5.93; “νεώτερα βουλεύειν περί τινος” Id.1.210; “μηδὲν νεώτερον ποιεῖν περὶ ἀνδρῶν” Th.2.6.
