A.children of H., Od.4.404, cf. Eust.1502.36: so in later Poets, “ἀθάνατοι δὲ καλεῦνται ἑοὶ νέποδες” Theoc.17.25; “γοργοφόνοι νέποδες” Cleon Sic. ap. EM389.28; “ὁ Κεῖος Ὑλλίχου νέπους” Call.Fr.77, cf. A.R.4.1745: also expld. from νε- (for νη- privat.), πούς, the footless ones, Apion ap.Apollon.Lex., and from νέω (A), = νηξί-ποδες, web-footed, ibid., Et.Gud.405.49: hence in later Poets, of fish, “θαλασσαίων μυνδότεροι νεπόδων” Call.Fr.260, cf. Nic.Al.468, 485, AP 6.11 (Satyr.), 11.60 (Paul. Sil.); ἕκαστά τε φῦλα νεπούδων is f.l. in h.Ap.78.
νέπους , ποδος, ὁ, once in Hom. in pl., νέποδες καλῆς Ἁλοσύδνης, of seals, prob.
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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