νόθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=η, ον, also ος, ον (Call.Fr.279),<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[bastard]], [[baseborn]], i.e. [[born]] of a [[slave]] or [[concubine]], freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός Il.2.727, etc.; παῖδες ν. Hdt.8.103, Pl.Ap.27d; opp. [[γνήσιος]], Il.11.102, Ar. Av.1650; ὁ δὴ νόθος τοῖς γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει; = but if he is a [[bastard]], how can he be as [[strong]] as those who are [[legitimate]]? S.Fr.87; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε Ep.Hebr.12.8: fem., [[κούρη]] νόθη Il.13.173.<br><span class="bld">2</span> at Athens, [[child]] of a [[citizen]] [[father]] and an [[alien]] [[mother]], D.23.213, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός Plu.Them.1.<br><span class="bld">3</span> pl., in [[Egypt]], a class of [[temple]]-[[attendant]]s, Wilcken Chr.66 (iii B.C.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> of animals, [[cross-bred]], πρόβατα PHib.1.32.15 (iii B.C.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[spurious]], [[counterfeit]], [[supposititious]], of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. Pl.Ti.52b, cf. Dam. Pr.26; ν. παιδείᾳ Pl.Lg.741a; νόθαι ἡδοναί Id.R.587c; [[ἀοιδαί]] Call.l.c.; νόθον [[ἧπαρ]] ὁ [[σπλήν]] Arist.PA669b28; αἱ νόθοι πλευραί = the [[false]] [[rib]]s, Paus. 1.35.6, Gal.UP4.9, Aret.SA2.6; νόθος [[πυρετός]] Gal.11.30; νόθος σάλπιγξ, of a [[serpent]]'s [[hiss]], Nonn.D.35.214; νόθον [[φέγγος]], of the [[moon]], opp. [[γνήσιον]], of the [[sun]], Ph.1.628; νόθος [[ἱματισμός]] [[meretricious]], Peripl.M. Rubr.39,49. Adv. [[νόθως]] = [[insincerely]], [[disingenuously]], [[LXX]] 3 Ma.3.17, cf. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">2</span> of [[literary]] [[work]]s, [[spurious]], Porph.Plot.16.