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===substantive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[νῶτον]] or pl. [[νῶτα]]

of the [[back]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[νωτιαῖος]] ([[Plato]]).

of things: [[prose|P.]] [[τὰ ὄπισθεν]].

[[the back legs]]: [[prose|P.]] [[τὰ ὀπίσθια σκέλη]] ([[Xenophon|Xen.]]).

[[at the back]], [[behind]], adv.: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὄπισθεν]], [[ὀπίσω]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατόπιν]], [[ἐξόπισθεν]], [[verse|V.]] [[ὄπισθε]].

[[in the rear]]: [[prose|P.]] [[κατὰ νώτου]].

[[on horseback]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐφ' ἵππου]].

[[on one's back]], adj.: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὕπτιος]].

[[turn one's back]], '''verb intransitive''': [[verse|V.]] [[νωτίζειν]].

[[they turned their backs in flight]]: [[verse|V.]] [[πρὸς φυγὴν ἐνώτισαν]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Andromache]]'' 1141).

[[bind]] (a [[person]]'s) [[hands behind his back]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ὀπίσω τὼ χεῖρε δεῖν]] ([[Aristophanes|Ar.]], Lys. 434, and [[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 356).

[[binding his hands behind his back]]: [[prose|P.]] τὼ χεῖρε περιαγαγὼν εἰς τοὔπισθεν (Lys. 94).

[[clasp one's hands behind one's back]]: [[prose|P.]] τὼ χεῖρε εἰς τοὐπίσω συμπλέκειν ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 4, 4).

[[why do you weep turning your back upon my face]]: [[verse|V.]] [[τί μοι προσώπῳ νῶτον ἐγκλίνασα σόν δύρει]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Hecuba]]'' 739).

===adverb===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[πάλιν]], [[ἔμπαλιν]], [[εἰς τοὔπισθεν]], [[prose|P.]] [[εἰς τοὐπίσω]], <[[verse|V.]] [[ἄψορρον]], or use adj., [[verse|V.]] [[ἄψορρος]], [[παλίσσυτος]], [[παλίντροπος]], [[παλίμπλαγκτος]].

[[ago]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[πρότερον]].

[[come back]], '''verb intransitive''': [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐπανέρχεσθαι]]; see [[return]].

[[give back]], '''verb transitive''': [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀποδιδόναι]].

[[hang back]], '''verb intransitive''': [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὀκνεῖν]], [[κατοκνεῖν]]. μέλλειν; see [[hesitate]].

[[turn back]], '''verb transitive''': [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀποστρέφειν]]; '''verb intransitive''', [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀποστρέφειν]] or pass., [[ὑποστρέφειν]] or pass.; see under [[turn]].

===verb transitive===

[[back water]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀνακρούεσθαι]] (''[[Vespae]]'' 399), [[prose|P.]] [[κρούεσθαι πρύμναν]].

[[favour]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[εὐνοεῖν]]; (dat.).

[[support]], [[confirm]]: [[prose|P.]] [[βεβαιοῦν]]. '''verb intransitive'''

[[go back]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὑποστρέφειν]] or pass.

[[back out]] (of an [[undertaking]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀφίστασθαι]]; (gen.), [[ἐξίστασθαι]] (gen.).

[[back out of what one has said]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐξαναχωρεῖν τὰ εἰρημένα]] ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 4, 28).
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