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νοσφ-ίζω , Att. fut.
A.“νοσφι^ῶ” S.Ph.1427, E.Alc.43 : aor. I “ἐνόσφισα” Pi.N.6.62, etc. :—Med., fut. “νοσφίσομαι” IG12(7).515.93 (Amorgos, ii B.C.) ; Ep. “νοσφίσσομαι” A.R.4.1108 : aor. ἐνοσφισάμην, Ep. νοσφισάμην, νοσφισσάμην (v. infr.) : pf. “νενόσφισμαι” PCair.Zen.484.4 (iii B.C.), Str.2.3.4, Plu.Luc.37 :—Pass., aor. “ἐνοσφίσθην” Od.11.73, etc. :
I. Hom. only Med. and Pass., turn away, shrink back, νοσφισθείς ibid., Thgn.94 ; “νοσφίσατ᾽” Od.11.425 : metaph., “ψεῦδός κεν φαῖμεν καὶ νοσφιζοίμεθα μᾶλλον” Il.2.81, 24.222.
2. c. gen., turn away from, τίφθ᾽ οὕτω πατρὸς νοσφίζεαι; Od.23.98.
3. c. acc., forsake, abandon, “παῖδά τ᾽ ἐμὴν νοσφισσαμένην θάλαμόν τε πόσιν τε” 4.263 ; elsewh. in Hom. of places, Κρήτης ὄρεα νιφόεντα νοσφισάμην ib.19.339 ; νοσφισσαμένη τόδε δῶμα ib.579, 21.77,104 ; “νοσφισθεῖσα θεῶν ἀγορήν” h.Cer.92 ; “ὅρκον ἐνοσφίσθης” Archil.96 ; εἴ σε νοσφίζομαι if I forsake thee, S.OT693 (lyr.).
II. after Hom. (ἀπονοσφίσσειεν first in h.Cer.158) in Act., set apart, separate, remove, “τινὰ ἐκ δόμων” E.Hel.641 (lyr.) ; “βρέφος ματέρος ἀποπρό” Id.IA1286 (lyr.) ; “τινὰ ἀπό τινος” Lyc.1331 ; τινα A.R.2.793 : metaph., ν. τινὰ βίου separate him from life, i. e. kill him, S.Ph.1427 ; τῷ νύ μ᾽ . . ἐκ βιότοιο νοσφίσατ᾽ (imper.) “ἐσσυμένως” Q.S.13.282 ; ν. τινά alone, A.Ch.438 (lyr.), Eu.211 ; “ν. τινὰ ἐρωμανίης” AP5.292 (Paul. Sil.).
2. deprive, rob, τινά τι one of a thing, Pi.N.6.62 ; also “ν. τινά τινος” A.Ch.620 (lyr.), E.Alc.43 ; “τοὺς θανόντας νοσφίσας ὧν χρῆν λαχεῖν” Id.Supp.539 ; γέροντ᾽ ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας, i. e. ὥστε ἄπαιδα εἶναι, Id.Andr.1207 (lyr.).
3. Med., put aside for oneself, appropriate, purloin, “νοσφίσασθαι ὁπόσα ἂν βουλώμεθα” X.Cyr.4.2.42, cf. SIG993.21 (Calauria, iii B.C.), Plb.10.16.6, “Ἑλληνικά” 1.18 (Gytheum, i A.D.) : in pf. Pass., νενοσφισμένος πολλά Str.l.c., cf. Plu. l. c. : ν. ἀπὸ τῶν ἀμφιτάπων, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος, ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς, appropriate part of . . , PCair.Zen.l. c., LXX Jo.7.1, Act.Ap.5.2 ; “ἐκ τοῦ χρήματος” Ath.6.234a : abs., PPetr.3p.162 (iii B.C.), Ep.Tit.2.10.
III. Med. in act. sense, deprive, rob, “σφ᾽ ἀδελφὸς χρημάτων νοσφίζεται” E.Supp.153, cf. A.R.4.1108.
2. in later poets, remove, “τοὺς . . ἀπὸ Ξάνθοιο . . πνοιαὶ νοσφίσσαντο” D.P.684 ; “νοσφίσατ᾽ ἐκ θυμοῖο καὶ ἡδέος ἐκ βιότοιο” Q.S.10.79.—Rare in Att. Prose.
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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