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νόος , νόου, , Att. contr. νοῦς , gen. νοῦ: Hom. uses the contr. form once, in nom., Od.10.240, cf. Hes.Fr.205 (Hdt. never): Trag. use contr. form, exc. in A.Ch.742 (iamb.), S.Ph.1209 (lyr.): Aeol. gen.
A.νῶAlc.Supp.9.1; acc.νῶν Sapph.ib.25.2; νόον Ead.70 (s.v.l.): heterocl. forms are found in NT and later writers, gen. “νοόςEp.Rom.7.23, LXX 4 Ma.1.35; dat. “νοΐ1 Ep.Cor.1.10, [Aristid.] Or.35(9).26; nom. pl. “νόεςPh.1.86, Plot.6.7.17, Dam.Pr.96; acc. pl. “νόαςPlu. Fr.7.27, Iamb.Myst.1.15, Ammon.in Int.243.3 (v.l.), Dam.Pr.103: Att. pl. νοῖ, acc. νοῦς, gen. νόων ib.122, dat. νοῖς ibid., is rare in early writers, as Ar.Fr.471, but freq. in later philosophy:
1. mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit,οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν ν.Il.15.461; “ν. πολυκερδέαOd.13.255; “ν. ὁρῇ καὶ ν. ἀκούει, τἄλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλάEpich.249, cf. S.OT371; “νόῳprudently, Od.6.320; “παρὲκ νόονsenselessly, Il.20.133; “σὺν νόῳwisely, Hdt.8.86, 138; ξὺν νῷ with play on ξυνῷ, Heraclit.114 (νόῳ codd. Stob.); “ξὺν νῷ ἑλομένῳPl. R.619b; “οὐδενὶ ξὺν νῷId.Cri.48c; “μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷAr.Nu.580; “τοῦ νοῦ χωρίςS.OT550; “τοῦ ν. κενόςId.OC931; νόῳ λαβεῖν τι to apprehend it, Hdt.3.51; νόῳ σχεῖν, ἔχειν, recall, remember, Id.5.92.ή, Pl.R.490a; “κοινὸς ν.Phld.Rh.1.37 S., Arr.Epict.3.6.8; ἀγαθὸς ν., σπουδαῖος ν., Phld.Rh.2.61, 1.252 S.
2. νοῦν ἔχειν in two senses,
4. mind, resolve, purpose, ἀγαθῷ νόῳ, i.e. kindly, Hdt.1.60; τί σοι ἐν νόῳ ἐστὶ ποιέειν; what do you intend to do? ib.109; “ἡμῖν ἐν ν. ἐγένετο εἰπεῖνId.9.46; ἐν ν. ἔχειν c. fut. inf., to intend . . , Id.1.10 (v.l.): c. pres. inf., ib. 27, Pl.R.344d; ποιέειν τι ἐπὶ νόον τινί to put into his mind to do . . , Hdt.1.27; ἐπὶ νόον τρέπειν τινί . . Id.3.21; “ταύτῃ <> ν. ἔφερεId.9.120.
5. reason, intellect,νόου φρενίXenoph.25, cf. Parm.16.2, etc.; “θεῖος ν.Democr.112, cf. Id. ap. Arist. de An.404a28; opp. δόξα, Pl.Ti.51d, cf. Arist. de An.428a5.
b. Mind as the active principle of the Universe, Anaxag. 12, etc.; “Θαλῆς νοῦν τοῦ κόσμου τὸν θεόνPlacit.1.7.11; “ τοῦ κόσμου γένεσις ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νοῦ συστάσεωςPl. Ti.48a, cf. Sph.249a, Phlb.30c, Arist.Metaph.1072b20, de An.430a17, Zeno Stoic.1.28, Plot.5.1.4.
III. sense, meaning of a word, etc., “οὗτος νόος τοῦ ῥήματοςHdt.7.162, cf. Ar.Ra.1439, Plb.5.83.4, Phld.Rh. 1.106 S., etc.; νόος τῆς θυσίης cj. for νόμος in Hdt.1.216; meaning of a work of art, Philostr.VA4.28; “πολὺς ν. ἐν ὀλίγῃ λέξει συνέσταλταιPlu.2.510e; πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν νοῦν to the same effect, Str.15.3.7; πρὸς νοῦν οὐδὲν λέγοντες to the point, Phld.Mus.p.96K.; “οὐδὲ νοῦν ἔχονsenseless, Id.Po.5.29.
IV. Pythag. name for μονάς, Theol.Ar.6. (Etym. dub.; the pr.n. “ΠολυνόϝαIG9(1).870 hardly proves νόϝος.
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