A.heap, pile up, “ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν νήησαν ξύλα πολλά” Od.19.64; of a funeral pile, “μενοεικέα νήεον ὕλην” Il.23.139; περὶ δὲ δρατᾲ σώματα νήει ib.169; “πῦρ τ᾽ εὖ νηῆσαι” Od.15.322; also ἐπ᾽ ἀπήνης νήεον . . ἀπερείσι᾽ ἄποινα heaped a huge ransom, Il.24.276; νήεον αὐτόθι βωμόν piled it up, A.R.1.403:—in Med., “πυρὰν ναήσατ᾽” B.3.33: fut. νηήσεται in pass. sense, Opp.H.2.216.
νη-έω , Dor. να_έω , older form of νέω (c),
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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