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νομ-άς , άδος, ὁ, ἡ, (νομός)
A.roaming about for pasture: “οἱ νομάδες” pastoral tribes, Choeril.3, Hdt.1.15,125, 4.187,7.85, Arist.Pol.1256a31; “στρατηγὸς νομάδων” OGI616.3 (Arabia); “ν. Σκύθαι” Pi.Fr.105, A. Pr.709; “Ἰνδαί” Id.Supp.284; of the Cyclopes, E.Cyc.120.
2. metaph., of a prostitute, Ph.2.327.
3. pr. n., Numidian, Plb.1.19.3,al.: hence “νομάδες ὄρνεις” guinea-fowl, Ptol.Euerg.2（a) J.; νομάς alone, Artem. ap. Ath.14.663e; ν. λίθος Numidian marble, Luc.Hipp. 6.
II. fem. Adj. roaming, grazing, “ἵπποι” S.Tr.271; “ἔλαφος” Id.Fr.89; “ἐπ᾽ ἀκταῖς νομάδα . . ἁλιάετον” E.Fr.636; δάμαλις ν. calf of the pastures, i.e. fatted, LXX 1 Ki.28.24; ν. περιστεραί wild doves, Gal.6.435, cf. 12.302; of Oedipus exposed, turned adrift on Cithaeron, S.OT1350 (lyr.); of irrigation-channels, “κρῆναι Κηφισοῦ νομάδες ῥεέθρων” Id.OC687 (unless distributing, cf. νέμω).
2. pastoral, “βίος” Scymn.832.
3. ν. τράπεζα game diet, Him.Or.25.3.
4. νομάσιν αὐγαῖς is dub.l. in Tim.Pers.89.
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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