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A.“νεανίοις” IG9(2).205.25 (Phthiotis, iii B.C.): (νεάν):—young man, Hom. (only in Od.) always with “ἀνήρ, νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώς” Od.10.278; “ἄνδρες κοιμήσαντο νεηνίαι” 14.524; “παῖδες νεηνίαι” Hdt.1.61, cf.7.99; “ν. γαμβρός” Pi.O.7.4; “τέκτονες κώμων ν.” Id.N.3.5: without a Subst. in Hdt.1.37,43, S.OC 335, El.750, E.Alc.698, X.Mem.3.1.2, etc.

2. freq. with the sense of a youth in character, i.e. either in good sense, impetuous, active, E.Ion 1041, cf. Ar.V.1333, X.Cyr.1.3.6, D.18.313; or in bad sense, hot-headed, wilful, headstrong, E.Supp.580; “ἓν μὲν τοίνυν τοῦτο . . πολίτευμα τοῦ νεανίου τούτου” D.18.136, cf. Pl.Sph.239d.

II. as masc. Adj., youthful, “νεανίαι τὰς ὄψεις” Lys.10.29.

2. of things, etc., new, young, fresh, “νεανίαις ὤμοισι” E.Hel.1562; “ν. θώρακα καὶ βραχίονα” Id.HF1095; “ἄρτος” Ar.Lys.1207; ν. λόγοι rash, wilful words, E.Alc.679. [νεανιῶν is trisyll. in Ar.V.1069; cf. νεανικός.]

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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