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νοστ-έω ,
A.go or come home, return, “ν. ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν” Od.1.290, Epic. ap. Plu.2.297b; ν. οἴκαδε, οἶκόνδε, ὅνδε δόμονδε, Il.4.103, 5.687, Od.1.83: c. acc., ν. Ἄργος, οἶκον, S.OC1386, E.IT534: pleon., “ὀπίσω ν.” Hdt.3.26; “ν. πάλιν” Ar.Av.1270: c. dat. modi, “ν. κεινῇσι χερσί” Hdt.1.73:—Med., “νοστήσατο πάτρην” Q.S.1.269.
2. abs., return safe, Il.10.247; return, “ἢ εὖ ἦε κακῶς νοστήσομεν” 2.253; “κάλλιον ἂν . . ἐνόστησ᾽ ἀντιπάλων” Pi.N.11.26, etc.
3. go or come, “κεῖσε” Od.4.619; “δεῦρο” E.Hel.474; γῆν τήνδε ib.891; “εἰς ἐκκλησίαν” Ar.Ach. 29.
4. c. acc. cogn., “ὑπὸ γῆς νοστήσαντι πορείαν” Pl.Ep.335c.
II. (cf. νόστος II, νόστιμος II) ἐνόστησε τὸ ὕδωρ the water became drinkable, Paus.7.2.11.
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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