νέω
γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος, πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα, νιν καρδίᾳ περισσῶς → A sweet thing is war to the inexperienced, but anyone who has tasted it trembles at its approach, exceedingly, in his heart (Pindar, for the Thebans, fr. 110)
English (LSJ)
(A),
A νεῖ Pl.R.453d, νέομεν Pi.Fr.218 codd. Ath.; inf. νεῖν Epich.53, Th.7.30; part. νέων Od.5.344, Pl.R.529c: impf. ἔνεον Ar.Eq.321; Ep. ἔννεον Il.21.11; poet. νέον Alc.143: fut. νεύσομαι Hsch., νευσοῦμαι v.l. in X.An.4.3.12: aor. ἔνευσα (δι-) Pl.Prm.137a, (ἐξ-) E.Hipp.470, Th.2.90: pf. νένευκα (δια-) Pl.R.441c:—swim, χείρεσσι νέων Od.5.344; ἷξε νέων ib.442; νέειν οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοι Hdt. 8.89, cf. 6.44; οὔτε ἐπιστ. νεῖν Th.7.30; νεῖν οὐκ ἴσαντι Epich. l.c. 2 metaph., of shoes that are too large, ἔνεον ἐν ταῖς ἐμβάσιν was floating in my shoes, as if they were boats, Ar.Eq.321; νεῖν ἐξ ὑπτίας, v. ὕπτιος 11. fin. (Prob. cogn. with νάω, Lat. nare.)
νέω (B), fut. νήσω: aor. 1 ἔνησα:—Pass., aor. ἐνήθην: pf. νένησμαι (ἐπι-) Ps.-Luc.Philopatr.14:—
A spin, Hom. only aor. Med., ἅσσα οἱ κατὰ Κλῶθες νήσαντο the happenings which they spun out to him, Od. 7.198; of a spider, νῇ νήματα Hes.Op.777; στήμονα μακρὸν ἔνησα Batr.183; πέπλους τε νῆσαι S.Fr.439; στήμονα νήσω Ar.Lys.519; νῶσαι μαλθακωτάτην κρόκην Eup.319; τὰ νηθέντα Pl.Plt.282e: 3pl. νῶσι occurs in Ael.NA7.12 (as if from νάω), cf. Poll.7.32, 10.125, EM344.1; and Hsch. cites νῶντα· νήθοντα; in Eup.l.c. Meineke restores νῆσαι for νῶσαι. (Cf. Lat. neo 'spin', OHG. nāan 'sew', etc.)
νέω (C), fut.
A νήσω Suid.: aor. ἔνησα (v. infr.):—Med., fut. (in pass. sense) νήσομαι Hsch. (v. infr.): aor. ἐνησάμην Polyaen.8.65:— Pass., aor. ἐνήσθην Arr.An.7.3.2, Porph.Abst.2.54, also ἐνήθην (ἐπ-) prob. in Hdn.4.2.10: pf. νένημαι IG22.1522.23 (iv B.C.), X. (v. infr.), perh. also νένησμαι (v. infr.); Ion. 3pl. νενέαται (συν-) Hdt.2.135; 3sg. plpf. ἐνένηστο Ael.VH5.6: pres. only in compds. ἐπι-, περινέω (qq.v.):—heap, pile up, πυρὴν νῆσαι pile a funeral pyre, Hdt. 1.50, cf. Ar.Lys.269, Th.2.52, Porph. l.c. (Pass.); νήσαντες ξύλα E. HF243; ἀμφορῆς νενησμένοι Ar.Nu.1203; ἄρτοι νενημένοι X.An.5.4.27; νῶντος, glossed σωρεύοντος, Phot. II in Pass., to be stuffed, c. gen., νενημένην χοῖρον πολλῆς φορίνης Herod.4.15; cf. νησόμεθα· κορεσθησόμεθα, Hsch. (Contr. from νηέω, q.v.)
(D), Dor. Adv., in the phrase ἐς νέω,
A = εἰς νέωτα, next year, Riv.Fil.56.266 (Cyrene, dub.), v.l. in Theoc.15.143 (cf. Riv.Fil.56.413); εἰς νέων dub. in BGU958c13 (iii A.D.).
