ναίω
ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, different as chalk from cheese, apples and oranges, like apples and oranges, by as much as cardamom is different from figs
English (LSJ)
poet. Verb, Act. (intr.) only in pres. and impf. (Ep.
A ναίεσκον Il.5.708), fut. and aor. in causal and Med. and Pass. forms, v. infr. 11, 111: 1 of persons, dwell, abide, mostly folld. by a Prep. of Place, ἐν Λῃ, etc., Il.l.c., etc.; ῥοῇς ἔπι Σαγγαρίοιο 16.719; ἐπ' ἄκρων ὀρέων S. OT1105 (lyr.); κατὰ πτόλιν Il.2.130; ἀν' οὔρεα Hes.Th.130; πὰρ ποταμόν Il.2.522; ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ 6.396: c. dat. loci, αἰθέρι ναίων 2.412, Hes. Op.18, etc.; ν. μετά τινος S.Ph.1105 (lyr.): metaph., τὴν σὴν δ' ὁμοῦ ναίουσαν [ὀργήν] Id.OT338; τὰν ἀρετὰν ναίειν ἐπὶ πέτραις Simon.58: with Adv., [κακότης] ἐγγύθι ναίει Hes.Op.288; ἵνα αἱ Φορκίδες ναίουσι A.Pr.794. b. c. acc. loci, dwell in, inhabit, οἰκία, δώματα, Od.20.288, Hes.Op.8, cf. Pi.P.7.5, al.; ἅλα, πλάκας ὀρέων, E.Hel.1584, Ba. 719; freq. with place-names, Il.2.615, Alex.22, etc.: metaph., Πειθὼ ναίει καὶ Χάρις υἱὸν Ἄγησίλα dub. in Pi.Fr.123.10; of the statues of gods, πρόπυλα ναίουσιν τάδε S.El.1375:—Pass., to be inhabited, Id.Fr. 1125 (in aor. ἐνάσθη), etc.; πολίταις Theoc.16.88; ὑπ' ἀνδράσι A.R.1.794. 2 of places, lie, be situated, once in Hom., νήσων αἳ ναίουσι πέρην ἁλός Il.2.626; ὦ κλεινὰ Σαλαμίς, σὺ μέν που ναίεις ἁλίπλακτος S. Aj.598 (lyr.). II causal, in Ep. aor. ἔνασσα or νάσσα, Med. ἐνασσάμην: 1 c. acc. loci, give one to dwell in, καί κέ οἱ Ἄργεϊ νάσσα πόλιν I would have given him a town in Argos for his home, Od.4.174; make habitable, build, νηὸν ἔνασσαν h.Ap.298; settle, Εὔβοιαν ἕλον καὶ ἔνασσαν Pi.Pae.5.36:—in Med., found, μυρία δ' ἄστη νάσσατ' ἐποιχόμενος A.R.4.275:—in Pass., of places, like Act.1.2, to be situated, πολίων εὖ ναιομενάων Il.3.400, al. 2 c. acc. pers., let one dwell, settle him, ἐν Ἄργει ἔνασσεν Ἡρακλέος ἐκγόνους Pi.P.5.71:— in Med., νάσσατο κούρην A.R.4.567. III Med. and Pass. in act. sense, fut. νάσσομαι Id.2.747: Ep. aor. 1 νάσσατο Hes.Op.639, Dem.Bith.6, Philet.24; later 3pl. ναιήσαντο D.P.349: pf. νένασται IG14.1389i8; part. νενασμένος D.P.264: aor. Pass. ἐνάσθην, πατὴρ ἐμὸς Ἄργεϊ νάσθη my father settled at Argos, Il.14.119.—More freq. in Compos. with ἀπό, κατά.
