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|lshtext=<b>nŏthus</b>: a, um, adj., = [[νόθος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> [[spurious]], not [[genuine]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of persons, [[illegitimate]], [[bastard]], [[born]] [[out]] of [[wedlock]] ([[but]] of a [[known]] [[father]]; [[contra]], [[spurius]], of an [[unknown]] [[father]]: [[legitimus]], [[born]] in [[wedlock]]): nothum qui non [[sit]] [[legitimus]], [[Graeci]] vocant: Latinum rei [[nomen]] non habemus, Quint. 3, 6, 97; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.; Quint. 3, 6, 96; 7, 7, 10: Antiphaten ... Thebanā de matre nothum Sarpedonis alti, Verg. A. 9, 697.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of animals of a [[mixed]] [[breed]], [[mongrel]], Verg. A. 7, 283; Col. 8, 2, 13; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., not [[genuine]], false, [[counterfeit]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]): lunaque [[sive]] notho fertur loca lumine lustrans, Sive suam [[proprio]] jactat de corpore lucem, i. e. borrowed, not its [[own]], Lucr. 5, 575; so, [[lumen]], Cat. 34, 15: [[Attis]] notha [[mulier]], false, [[counterfeit]], id. 63, 27: quojus genera (nominum) sunt tria, unum vernaculum ac domi natum, alterum adventicium, [[tertium]] nothum ex peregrino hic natum, Varr. L. L. 10, § 69 Müll.; so, notha nomina, id. ib. 10, § 70: nothae [[atque]] adulterae lectiones, Arn. 5, 182.
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