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νεα_ν-ι^κός , ή, όν, (νεάν)
A.youthful, “ῥώμη” Ar.V.1067: mostly of youthful qualities : hence,
1. fresh, active, vigorous, fine, “νεανικώτατε” Id.Eq.611; κρέας ν. a fine large piece, Id.Pl.1137; “λοπάς” Alex.188.2; of trees, Thphr.HP5.1.11 (Comp.); “-ώτερα ἀγαθά” more splendid, Pl.R.363c.
2. high-spirited, impetuous, gay, τὸ νεανικώτατον the most dashing feat, Ar.V.1205; “ἀρχὴ καλὴ καὶ ν.” Pl.R.563e; “γενναῖον καὶ ν. ἔρωτα” Id.Ly.204e; “ν. τε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖς τὰς διανοίας” Id.R.503c; “μέγα καὶ ν. φρόνημα” D.3.32; “οὐ γὰρ ἡγεῖτο λαμπρὸν οὐδὲ ν.” Id.21.131, cf. 201.
3. in bad sense, headstrong, insolent, “τὸ ν. τοῦ λόγου” Pl.Grg.508d; ἢ σοῦ τις -ώτερος ib.509a; “δημοκρατία ἡ -ωτάτη” Arist.Pol.1296a4.
4. of things, vehement, mighty, “ψῦξις -ωτάτη” Hp.VM16; “αἱμορραγία” Id.Prorrh. 1.134; “φόβος” E.Hipp.1204; “βούλευμα” Id.Fr.185.6: freq. in later Prose, “ἐπιθυμία ν.” Arist.EN1148a21; “βροντή” Id.HA602b23; νόσημα ib.602b29; “χειμών” Thphr.Ign.17.
II. Adv. -κῶς in a youthful manner, “ἐστείλαμεν ἑαυτοὺς ν.” X.Eph.5.1.
2. vigorously, Ar.Pax 898; “ν. βοηθεῖν τινι” Pl.Tht.168c; “βιαίως καὶ ν.” Dsc.1.56; of things, Ph.Bel.78.29: Comp. “-κωτέρως, ἀγαθός” Phld.Rh.2.272 S.
3. violently, wantonly, τύπτειν, τωθάζειν, Ar.V.1307, 1362; “ν. ἀκόλαστος” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.47 M.
4. excessively, “ν. τρομώδεα” Hp.Prorrh. 1.9; ν. προσπεφυκέναι to be firmly attached to . . , Arist.HA530a15. [νεανικήν is trisyll. in Ar.V.1067; cf. νεανίας.]
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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