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|Definition=νεανική, νεανικόν, ([[νεάν]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[youthful]], [[ῥώμη]] Ar.''V.''1067: mostly of youthful qualities: hence,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[fresh]], [[active]], [[vigorous]], [[fine]], νεανικώτατε Id.''Eq.''611; [[κρέας]] νεανικόν = a [[fine]] [[large]] [[piece]] of [[meat]], Id.''Pl.''1137; [[λοπάς]] Alex.188.2; of trees, Thphr.''HP''5.1.11 (Comp.); νεανικώτερα ἀγαθά = more [[splendid]], Pl.''R.''363c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[high-spirited]], [[impetuous]], [[gay]], [[τὸ νεανικώτατον]] = the [[most]] [[dashing]] [[feat]], Ar.''V.''1205; ἀρχὴ καλὴ καὶ ν. Pl.''R.''563e; γενναῖον καὶ νεανικόν ἔρωτα Id.''Ly.''204e; ν. τε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖς τὰς διανοίας Id.''R.''503c; μέγα καὶ νεανικὸν [[φρόνημα]] D.3.32; οὐ γὰρ ἡγεῖτο λαμπρὸν οὐδὲ ν. Id.21.131, cf. 201.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in bad sense, [[headstrong]], [[insolent]], τὸ νεανικὸν τοῦ λόγου Pl.''Grg.''508d; ἢ σοῦ τις νεανικώτερος ib.509a; [[δημοκρατία]] ἡ νεανικωτάτη [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Politica|Pol.]]''1296a4.<br><span class="bld">4</span> of things, [[vehement]], [[mighty]], ψῦξις νεανικωτάτη Hp.''VM''16; [[αἱμορραγία]] Id.''Prorrh.'' 1.134; [[φόβος]] E.''Hipp.''1204; [[βούλευμα]] Id.''Fr.''185.6: freq. in later Prose, [[ἐπιθυμία]] ν. [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1148a21; [[βροντή]] Id.''HA''602b23; [[νόσημα]] ib.602b29; [[χειμών]] Thphr.''Ign.''17.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Adv. [[νεανικῶς]] = [[in a youthful manner]], ἐστείλαμεν ἑαυτοὺς νεανικῶς X.Eph.5.1.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[vigorously]], Ar.''Pax'' 898; [[νεανικῶς βοηθεῖν]] τινι = [[help energetically]] [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Theaetetus|Tht.]]''168c; [[βιαίως]] καὶ νεανικῶς Dsc.1.56; of things, Ph.''Bel.''78.29: Comp. νεανικωτέρως, [[ἀγαθός]] Phld.''Rh.''2.272 S.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[violently]], [[wantonly]], [[τύπτειν]], [[τωθάζειν]], Ar.''V.''1307, 1362; νεανικῶς [[ἀκόλαστος]] Phld.''Acad.Ind.''p.47 M.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[excessively]], ν. [[τρομώδης|τρομώδεα]] Hp.''Prorrh.'' 1.9; [[νεανικῶς προσπεφυκέναι]] to [[be firmly attached to]]... [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''530a15. νεανικήν is trisyll. in Ar.''V.''1067; cf. [[νεανίας]].]