νῆστις
Φίλος με βλάπτων (λυπῶν) οὐδὲν ἐχθροῦ διαφέρει → Laedens amicus distat inimico nihil → Ein Freund, der schadet, ist ganz gelich mir einem Feind
English (LSJ)
gen. ιος or ιδος, ὁ and ἡ (v. infr.); also dat.
A νήστει Hp. Acut.60: pl. νήστεις Antiph.138, D.H.Rh.9.16: (νη-, ἔδω):—not eating, fasting, of persons, ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους Il.19.207; νήστιες ἄχρι . . κνέφαος Od.18.370, cf. Diocl.Fr.43, Ev.Matt.15.32, etc.; νήστισιν ἐπιθέντες οἱ πολέμιοι Onos.12.1: c. gen., νῆστις βορᾶς E.IT973: metaph., νῆστιν ἀνὰ . . ψάμμαν over the hungry sand, A.Pr.573 (lyr.). 2 with an abstract Subst., freq. in A., νῆστιν νόσον famine, Ag. 1016 (lyr.); ν. λιμός Ch.250; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr.599 (lyr.); νήστιδες δύαι Ag.1621; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, Phryn.PSp.91 B. 3 Act., causing hunger, starving, πνοαὶ νήστιδες A.Ag.193 (lyr.). II as Subst., νῆστις, ἡ, acc. νῆστιν Ar.Fr.318.3, 506.4, Eub.110. 1 the intestinum jejunum, from its always being found empty, Hp.Carn. 19, Ar.Fr.506.4, Eub.63.5 (anap.), cf. Arist.PA675b33. 2 ν. κεστρεύς, fish so called because its stomach was always found empty, Ar.Fr.156, etc.: hence in Com., of 'empty bellies', ἐγὼ δὲ κεστρεὺς νῆστις οἴκαδ' ἀποτρέχω Alex.256, etc., cf. Ath.7.307d. 3 Νῆστις, ἡ, = ὕδωρ, Emp.6.3, cf. Alex.322.
