A.“νῶ” Alc.Supp.9.1; acc.νῶν Sapph.ib.25.2; νόον Ead.70 (s.v.l.): heterocl. forms are found in NT and later writers, gen. “νοός” Ep.Rom.7.23, LXX 4 Ma.1.35; dat. “νοΐ” 1 Ep.Cor.1.10, [Aristid.] Or.35(9).26; nom. pl. “νόες” Ph.1.86, Plot.6.7.17, Dam.Pr.96; acc. pl. “νόας” Plu. Fr.7.27, Iamb.Myst.1.15, Ammon.in Int.243.3 (v.l.), Dam.Pr.103: Att. pl. νοῖ, acc. νοῦς, gen. νόων ib.122, dat. νοῖς ibid., is rare in early writers, as Ar.Fr.471, but freq. in later philosophy:
1. mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, “οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν ν.” Il.15.461; “ν. πολυκερδέα” Od.13.255; “ν. ὁρῇ καὶ ν. ἀκούει, τἄλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά” Epich.249, cf. S.OT371; “νόῳ” prudently, Od.6.320; “παρὲκ νόον” senselessly, Il.20.133; “σὺν νόῳ” wisely, Hdt.8.86, 138; ξὺν νῷ with play on ξυνῷ, Heraclit.114 (νόῳ codd. Stob.); “ξὺν νῷ ἑλομένῳ” Pl. R.619b; “οὐδενὶ ξὺν νῷ” Id.Cri.48c; “μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷ” Ar.Nu.580; “τοῦ νοῦ χωρίς” S.OT550; “τοῦ ν. κενός” Id.OC931; νόῳ λαβεῖν τι to apprehend it, Hdt.3.51; νόῳ σχεῖν, ἔχειν, recall, remember, Id.5.92.ή, Pl.R.490a; “κοινὸς ν.” Phld.Rh.1.37 S., Arr.Epict.3.6.8; ἀγαθὸς ν., σπουδαῖος ν., Phld.Rh.2.61, 1.252 S.
a. to have sense, be sensible, S.Tr.553, El.1013, 1465, Ar.Ra.535, etc.; “ὁ νοῦς ὅδ᾽ αὐτὸς ν. ἔχων οὐ τυγχάνει” E.IA1139; so ν. ὀλίγον κεκτημένος Ar.Ec.747; “σμικρὸν νοῦ κεκτῆσθαι” Pl.Lg.887e; impers., “τὸ γὰρ περισσὰ πράσσειν οὐκ ἔχει ν. οὐδένα” S.Ant.68, cf. Pl.Ti.68b; cf. νουνεχόντως.
b. νοῦν or τὸν ν. ἔχειν to have one's mind directed to something, “ἄλλοσ᾽ ὄμμα, θητέρᾳ δὲ ν. ἔχειν” S.Tr.272, cf. Sapph.Supp.25.2; “τὸν ν. πρὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ ἔχων, ἐκεῖσε δέ” E.Ph.1418; “δεῦρο ν. ἔχε” Id.Or. 1181; “οἴκοι τὸν ν. ἔχειν” Id.Ion 251; ποῦ τὸν ν. ἔχεις; Ar.Ec.156; τὸν ν. ἔχειν πρός τινα or τι (like προσέχειν τὸν ν.) Th.7.19, Pl.Grg.504d; “πρός τινι” Id.Prt.324a, etc.; “περί τινος” Id.R.534b; “ἐν πέρδιξιν” AP7.206 (Damoch.): conversely, ἐπὶ νοῦν ἐλθεῖν τινι to occur to one, D.H.3.15, Arr.An.7.24.3.
3. mind, more widely, as employed in feeling, deciding, etc., heart, “χαῖρε νόῳ” Od.8.78; “κεῦθε νόῳ” Il.1.363; “[χόλος] οἰδάνει νόον” 9.554; “ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀτάρβητος ν. ἐστί” 3.63; ν. ἔμπεδος, ἀκήλητος, ἀπηνής, 11.813, Od.10.329, 18.381; ν. εὐμενής, ἄγναμπτος, etc., Pi.P.8.18, A.Pr.164 (lyr.), etc.; “πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων νόον ἔγνω” Od.1.3; ἐκ παντὸς νόου with all his heart and soul, Hdt.8.97; τῷ νῷ . . κἀπὸ τῆς γλώσσης in heart as well as tongue, S.OC 936: freq. in phrase κατὰ νόον according to one's mind, Hdt.1.117, 7.104; “εἰ τάδ᾽ ἔχει κατὰ νοῦν κείνῳ” S.OC1768 (anap.); “πράξειας κατὰ ν. τὸν ἐμόν” Id.Fr.469 (anap.); “κατὰ ν. πράξας” Ar.Eq.549; “χωρεῖ κατὰ ν.” Id.Pax940, cf. Pl.Euthphr.3e.
4. mind, resolve, purpose, ἀγαθῷ νόῳ, i.e. kindly, Hdt.1.60; τί σοι ἐν νόῳ ἐστὶ ποιέειν; what do you intend to do? ib.109; “ἡμῖν ἐν ν. ἐγένετο εἰπεῖν” Id.9.46; ἐν ν. ἔχειν c. fut. inf., to intend . . , Id.1.10 (v.l.): c. pres. inf., ib. 27, Pl.R.344d; ποιέειν τι ἐπὶ νόον τινί to put into his mind to do . . , Hdt.1.27; ἐπὶ νόον τρέπειν τινί . . Id.3.21; “ταύτῃ <ὁ> ν. ἔφερε” Id.9.120.
5. reason, intellect, “νόου φρενί” Xenoph.25, cf. Parm.16.2, etc.; “θεῖος ν.” Democr.112, cf. Id. ap. Arist. de An.404a28; opp. δόξα, Pl.Ti.51d, cf. Arist. de An.428a5.
b. Mind as the active principle of the Universe, Anaxag. 12, etc.; “Θαλῆς νοῦν τοῦ κόσμου τὸν θεόν” Placit.1.7.11; “ἡ τοῦ κόσμου γένεσις ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νοῦ συστάσεως” Pl. Ti.48a, cf. Sph.249a, Phlb.30c, Arist.Metaph.1072b20, de An.430a17, Zeno Stoic.1.28, Plot.5.1.4.
II. act of mind, thought, “ἡμῖν δ᾽ οὔ τις τοῦδε νόος καὶ μῆτις ἀμείνων” Il.15.509; “οὐ γάρ τις νόον ἄλλος ἀμείνονα τοῦδε νοήσει” 9.104; “οὐ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτή” Od.5.23.
III. sense, meaning of a word, etc., “οὗτος ὁ νόος τοῦ ῥήματος” Hdt.7.162, cf. Ar.Ra.1439, Plb.5.83.4, Phld.Rh. 1.106 S., etc.; ὁ νόος τῆς θυσίης cj. for νόμος in Hdt.1.216; meaning of a work of art, Philostr.VA4.28; “πολὺς ν. ἐν ὀλίγῃ λέξει συνέσταλται” Plu.2.510e; πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν νοῦν to the same effect, Str.15.3.7; πρὸς νοῦν οὐδὲν λέγοντες to the point, Phld.Mus.p.96K.; “οὐδὲ νοῦν ἔχον” senseless, Id.Po.5.29.
