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νωθρ-ός , ά, όν,
A.= νωθής, Hp.VM10, Prorrh.1.102,117, etc. ; “ν. σφυγμοί” Id.Coac.136, Aret.SA2.9 ; καταφορὴ ν. falling into a heavy sleep, Hp.Epid.3.6, cf. Nic.Th.165 ; “ν. κινήσεις” Arist.PA696b6 ; “ν. σύνεσις” Demetr.Lac.Herc.1014.58 ; “τῇ κινήσει ν.” Arist.HA622b32 ; “ν. ὁδίτης” Call.Fr.275 ; “νωθρότερος τὴν ἀκοήν” Hld.5.1. Adv. -“θρῶς” Archyt. I ; leisurely, gradually, Hp.Aph.2.7 : neut. as Adv., “ὄμμασι νωθρὰ βλέπουσα” AP5.54（Diosc.).
2. of the mind, “ν. καὶ λήθης γέμοντες” Pl. Tht.144b, cf. Amips.16（Comp.) ; “στόματα” Anaxipp.1.44（Comp.) ; “ν. καὶ μωροί” Arist.Pr.954a31 ; “ἡσύχιος καὶ ν.” Plb.31.23.11 ; “νωθραῖς ἐλπίσιν” Babr.16.7. Adv. “ἀγεννῶς καὶ νωθρῶς” Plb.3.90.6.
II. Act., making sluggish, “νότοι” Hp.Aph.3.5, cf. S.E.M.6.48.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 144b
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.23.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.90.6
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 2.7
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 3.5
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 10
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.9
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