A.to be sick, ail, whether in body or mind, Hdt.1.105, etc.; τῆς πόλεως . . οὔπω νενοσηκυίας not yet having suffered from the plague, Th. 2.31; “νενοσηκὸς αἷμα” diseased, Arist.HA521a18; “νόσῳ ν.” A.Pr.386: c. acc. cogn., “νοῦσον νοσεῖν” Hdt.3.33, cf. E.Andr.220; “τελευταίαν νόσον ν.” Antipho 1.30; “τι τῶν ἀπορρήτων κακῶν” E.Hipp.293: c. acc. partis, “νοσεῖν κῶλον” S.Ph.41; “ν. ὀφθαλμούς” Pl.Grg.496a; “νεφρούς” Arist. PA671b11, etc.; τὸ νοσοῦν, = νόσος, S.Ph.675, Pl.Smp.186b: freq. in aor. νοσῆσαι, fall sick, Hdt.1.19, Th.1.138, Arist.Rh.1392a11, Luc. Macr.22, etc.; of things, “γῆ νοσεῖ” X.Ath.2.6; of plants, Thphr.CP5.9.9:—Pass., ἡμέραι αἱ νοσούμεναι days on which one is ill, Hp.Septim. 7.
2. of passion, “ν. μάταν” to be mad, S.Aj.635 (lyr.); θολερῷ χειμῶνι νοσήσας ib.207 (anap.); “ἐξ ἀλαστόρων ν.” Id.Tr.1235; νοσῶν alone, opp. σώφρων, ib.435; “ν. τὰς φρένας” Cratin.329; ν. περὶ δόξαν to have a morbid craving for fame, Plu.2.546f; “ψυχῆς νοσούσης ἐστὶ φάρμακον λόγος” Men.Mon.550.
3. generally, suffer, “νοσεῖ τὰ τῶν θεῶν” E.Tr.27; “τοῖσιν οἰκείοις κακοῖς” S.OC766; “ἀπαιδίᾳ” E.Ion620; “πονηρίᾳ” X.Mem.3.5.18; ἐκεῖ νοσοῦμεν ὅτι . . E.Hel.581: c. acc. cogn., “τόδ᾽ ἄλγος” S.Ph.1326; esp. of states, suffer from faction and the like , “ἡ Μίλητος νοσήσασα στάσι” Hdt.5.28; “νοσεῖ πόλις” S.Ant.1015, cf. Pl. Mx.243e; “νοσοῦσι καὶ τεταραγμένοις” D.2.14; “νοσοῦντας ἐν αὑτοῖς” Id.9.50; ἀπόλωλε καὶ νενόσηκεν ἡ Ἑλλάς ib.39; “αἱ δὲ πόλεις ἐνόσουν” Id.18.45; “τὰ πράγματα νοσοῦντα” Arist.Ath.6.4; “νοσῶν γάμος” Ael. NA8.20.
