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νόσος , Ep. and Ion. (not Dor., cf. Berl.Sitzb.1927.156 (Cyrene)) νοῦσος , ἡ,
A.sickness, disease, plague, νοῦσον ἀνὰ στρατὸν ὦρσε κακήν (sc. Apollo), “ὀλέκοντο δὲ λαοί” Il.1.10; “νοῦσόν γ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι” Od.9.411; “δολιχὴ ν.” 11.172; “νοῦσοι ἀργαλέαι” Hes. Op.92:— Phrases: “ἐς ν. πεσεῖν” A.Pr.473; “ἐς ν. ἐμπίπτειν” Antipho 1.20; “νόσον ἐμπεπτωκέναι τοῖς κτήνεσιν” X.Cyr.8.3.41; “μοι ν. ἐπήλυθεν” Od.11.200; “νόσῳ ληφθέντι” S.Tr.445; κάμνειν νόσον, ὑπὸ νόσου, v. κάμνω; ἀσθενεῖν ταύτην τὴν νόσον Isoc.19.24; “ἐκ τῆς νούσου ἀνέστη” Hdt.1.22; θήλεα ν. ib.105, cf. Hdn.4.12.2; ἱερὰ νόσος, v. ἱερός IV. 8: ν. defined, Gal.7.43.
II. generally, distress, anguish, Hes.Th.527, S.OC544 (lyr.), etc.
2. disease of mind, esp. caused by madness, passion, vice, etc., “ν. φρενῶν” A.Pers.750 (troch.); θεία ν., i.e. madness, S.Aj.185 (lyr.); μανιάσιν ν. ib.59; λυσσώδη ν. ib.452; of love, Id.Tr.491; “Ἀφροδίτας ν.” E.Hipp.767 (lyr.); “ἀκόλαστον ἔσχε γλῶσσαν, αἰσχίστην ν.” Id.Or.10; “τῆς μεγίστης ν., ἀνοίας” Pl.Lg.691d; ν. καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικας; Id.Sph.228a.
3. plague, bane, mischief, e.g. a whirlwind is “θεία ν.” S.Ant.421, cf. 1141 (lyr.); of the trident of Poseidon, A.Pr.924 (s.v.l.); πεντεσύριγγος ν., of the pillory, Polyeuct. ap. Arist. Rh.1411a23; “κτείνειν τινὰ ὡς νόσον πόλεως” Pl.Prt.322d.
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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