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νόσ-ημα , Ion. νούσ- , ατος, τό, (νοσέω)
A.disease, Hp.Flat.1, S.Ph. 755, E.El.656, Th.2.49,53, etc.; “τὰ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ν.” Isoc.8.39; “νοσήμασι περιπίπτειν” X.Cyr.6.2.27; “νοσήματα τῶν σπερμάτων” Thphr.HP 8.10.1; [τῶν φυτῶν] ib.4.14.1.
2. metaph., of passion, vice, etc., “ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι ν.” A.Pr.227; ν. γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους ib.685; νοσοῖμ᾽ ἄν, εἰ ν. τοὺς ἐχθροὺς στυγεῖν ib.978; of love, S.Fr.149.1; “τὸ ν. τῆς ἀδικίας” Pl.Grg.480b, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.3.103.
b. of any grievous affliction, S.OT1293; esp. of disorder in a state, “τυραννίδα . . ἔσχατον πόλεως ν.” Pl.R.544c, cf. D.19.259, etc.
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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