William J. Slater, Lexicon to Pindar, νῶτον

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ναί - νεόκτιστος, -ον

νεόκτονος - νόστος

νοσφίζω - νῶτον

νύμφιος, -εῖος

νωδυ^νία

νώδυ^νος

νώνυμνος

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νῶτον (“-ῳ, -ον; -ων, -οισιν, -α.”)

a. back

I. of a person. “στρωμνὰ δὲ χαράσσοισ᾽ ἅπαν νῶτον ποτικεκλιμένον κεντεῖ” sc. the back of Typhon, buried beneath Mt. Etna P. 1.28 “πλόκαμοι — ἅπαν νῶτον καταίθυσσον” of Jason P. 4.83 “ἄνδρας πτεροῖσιν νῶτα πεφρίκοντας” P. 4.183 “ἑκόντι δ᾽ ἐγὼ νώτῳ μεθέπων δίδυμον ἄχθος” N. 6.57 “ἐκ δὲ Πελλάνας” (sc. “ἀπέβαν”) “ἐπιεσσάμενοι νῶτον μαλακαῖσι κρόκαις” N. 10.44 pl. pro s., “δουρὶ Περικλυμένου πρὶν νῶτα τυπέντα μαχατὰν θυμὸν αἰσχυνθῆμεν” N. 9.26, cf. “Πα.” 6. 139 infra.

II. of an eagle. “ὁ δὲ κνώσσων ὑγρὸν νῶτον αἰωρεῖ” P. 1.9

b. of land

I. expanse, surface ““φέρομεν νώτων ὕπερ γαίας ἐρήμων ἐννάλιον δόρυ”” P. 4.26 “ἀνὰ βωλακίας δ᾽ ὀρόγυιαν σχίζε νῶτον γᾶς” Jason, while ploughing P. 4.228

II. ridge “ὦ Ζεῦ πάτερ, νώτοισιν Ἀταβυρίου μεδέων” O. 7.87 met., of person and place, “τότε χρύσεαι ἀέρος ἔκρυψαν κόμαι ἐπιχώριον κατάσκιον νῶτον ὑμέτερον” of Aigina, nymph and island Pae. 6.139

Lexicon to Pindar. William J. Slater. Berlin. De Gruyter. 1969.

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