ἐννεάζω
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
A spend one's youth in, μεγέθει σώματος ἐννεάσαι to be of great stature in one's youth, Hp.Aph.2.54; τῇ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀκριβεστέρᾳ καταλήψει Ph.1.622; ἐ. [τῇ βασιλείᾳ] καὶ ἐγγηράσκει, of one crowned in his mother's womb, Agath.4.25; ῥόδον ἐννεάσαν τῷ ἦρι having bloomed in spring, Philostr.Ep.51.
German (Pape)
[Seite 846] seine Jugend zubringen in, τινί, Hippocr. u. Sp.; ῥόδον ἦρι ἐννεάσαν, im Frühling blühend, Philostr., ep. 73.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐννεάζω: νεάζω ἔν τινι, διέρχομαι τὴν νεότητά μου ἔν τινι, μεγέθει σώματος ἐννεάσαι, ἔχειν μέγα σῶμα ἐν τῇ νεότητι, ἀντιτίθεται τῷ ἐγγηράσαι, Ἱππ. Ἀφ. 1246· ῥόδον ἐννεάσαν τῷ ἦρι, ἀνθῆσαν κατὰ τὸ ἔαρ, Φιλοστρ. Ἐπιστ. 51 Kayser.
