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νέρτερος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Ph.1020 (lyr.):—
A.= ἐνέρτερος, lower, nether, Comp. without Posit. in use (cf. νέρθε, ἔνερθε), “νερτέρᾳ προσήμενος κώπῃ” A.Ag.1617; “τὰ δ᾽ ὑπέρτερα νέρτερα θήσει” Ar.Lys. 772.
2. mostly as Posit., belonging to the lower world, “ἡ ν. θεός” S.OC1548; “ν. θεοί” A.Pers.622, S.Ant.602 (lyr.), etc.; νέρτεροι alone, the dead, A.Pers.619, etc.; ν. πλάκες, χθών, δώματα, the world below, S.OC1576 (lyr.), E.Alc.47 (s.v.l.), 1073; ν. κώπα, of Charon's boat, ib.459 (lyr.).
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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