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νεα_ν-ι^εύομαι (Act. only in Hsch.), fut.
A.“-εύσομαι” D.19.242: aor. “ἐνεανιευσάμην” Id.21.69:—Pass. (v. infr.):—to be a youth, Ph.1.303, Poll. 2.20.
II. more freq., act like a hot-headed youth, wilfully or wantonly, swagger, Ar.Fr.827, Lys Fr.324 S.; ν. εἰς τοὺς πολίτας behave so towards . . , Isoc.20.17, cf. Hyp.Eux.27; “ἐν τοῖς λόγοις” Pl.Grg. 482c; “νεανιευσάμενος εἰπεῖν” with youthful insolence, Plu.Cic.1:— Pass., ἐφ᾽ ἅπασι τοῖς ἑαυτῷ νενεανιευμένοις to all his wanton acts, D. 21.18; “τὰ ἐν τῇ βουλῇ νεανιευθέντα” Plu.Mar.29.
2. make youthful, i.e. bold, promises, c. Adj. neut., ν. τοιοῦτον, ὡς . . D.19.194; “οὐδ᾽ ἐνεανιεύσατο τοιοῦτον οὐδέν” Id.21.69; “μέχρι τοῦ λόγου ν.” Luc.Bis Acc. 21: c. inf., undertake with youthful spirit, Plu.Dem.3.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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