νοσφίζω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Att. fut. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> νοσφῐῶ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1427</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>43</span> : aor. I ἐνόσφισα <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>6.62</span>, etc. :—Med., fut. νοσφίσομαι <span class="title">IG</span>12(7).515.93 (Amorgos, ii B.C.) ; Ep. νοσφίσσομαι <span class="bibl">A.R.4.1108</span> : aor. <b class="b3">ἐνοσφισάμην</b>, Ep. <b class="b3">νοσφισάμην, νοσφισσάμην</b> (v. infr.) : pf. νενόσφισμαι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>484.4</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Str.2.3.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Luc.</span>37</span> :—Pass., aor. ἐνοσφίσθην <span class="bibl">Od.11.73</span>, etc. : </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> Hom. only Med. and Pass., <b class="b2">turn away, shrink back</b>, <b class="b3">νοσφισθείς</b> ibid., <span class="bibl">Thgn.94</span> ; νοσφίσατ' <span class="bibl">Od.11.425</span> : metaph., ψεῦδός κεν φαῖμεν καὶ νοσφιζοίμεθα μᾶλλον <span class="bibl">Il.2.81</span>, <span class="bibl">24.222</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> c. gen., <b class="b2">turn away from</b>, <b class="b3">τίφθ' οὕτω πατρὸς νοσφίζεαι</b>; <span class="bibl">Od.23.98</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> c. acc., <b class="b2">forsake, abandon</b>, παῖδά τ' ἐμὴν νοσφισσαμένην θάλαμόν τε πόσιν τε <span class="bibl">4.263</span> ; elsewh. in Hom. of places, <b class="b3">Κρήτης ὄρεα νιφόεντα νοσφισάμην</b> ib.<span class="bibl">19.339</span> ; <b class="b3">νοσφισσαμένη τόδε δῶμα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">579</span>, <span class="bibl">21.77</span>,<span class="bibl">104</span> ; νοσφισθεῖσα θεῶν ἀγορήν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>92</span> ; ὅρκον ἐνοσφίσθης <span class="bibl">Archil.96</span> ; <b class="b3">εἴ σε νοσφίζομαι</b> if I <b class="b2">forsake</b> thee, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>693</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> after Hom. (<b class="b3">ἀπονοσφίσσειεν</b> first in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>158</span>) in Act., <b class="b2">set apart, separate, remove</b>, τινὰ ἐκ δόμων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>641</span> (lyr.) ; βρέφος ματέρος ἀποπρό <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">IA</span>1286</span> (lyr.) ; τινὰ ἀπό τινος Lyc.1331 ; τινα <span class="bibl">A.R.2.793</span> : metaph., <b class="b3">ν. τινὰ βίου</b> <b class="b2">separate</b> him from life, i. e. <b class="b2">kill</b> him, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1427</span> ; <b class="b3">τῷ νύ μ' . . ἐκ βιότοιο νοσφίσατ'</b> (imper.) ἐσσυμένως <span class="bibl">Q.S.13.282</span> ; <b class="b3">ν. τινά</b> alone, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>438</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>211</span> ; ν. τινὰ ἐρωμανίης <span class="title">AP</span>5.292 (Paul. Sil.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">deprive, rob</b>, <b class="b3">τινά τι</b> one <b class="b2">of</b> a thing, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>6.62</span> ; also ν. τινά τινος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>620</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>43</span> ; τοὺς θανόντας νοσφίσας ὧν χρῆν λαχεῖν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>539</span> ; <b class="b3">γέροντ' ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας</b>, i. e. <b class="b3">ὥστε ἄπαιδα εἶναι</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Andr.</span>1207</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> Med., <b class="b2">put aside for oneself, appropriate, purloin</b>, νοσφίσασθαι ὁπόσα ἂν βουλώμεθα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.2.42</span>, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>993.21 (Calauria, iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Plb.10.16.6</span>, Ἑλληνικά <span class="bibl">1.18</span> (Gytheum, i A.D.) : in pf. Pass., <b class="b3">νενοσφισμένος πολλά</b> Str.l.c., cf. Plu. l. c. : <b class="b3">ν. ἀπὸ τῶν ἀμφιτάπων, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος, ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς</b>, <b class="b2">appropriate part of . .</b>, PCair.Zen.l. c., <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jo.</span>7.1</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>5.2</span> ; ἐκ τοῦ χρήματος <span class="bibl">Ath.6.234a</span> : abs., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.162</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Tit.</span>2.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Med. in act. sense, <b class="b2">deprive, rob</b>, σφ' ἀδελφὸς χρημάτων νοσφίζεται <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>153</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.R.4.1108</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in later poets, <b class="b2">remove</b>, τοὺς . . ἀπὸ Ξάνθοιο . . πνοιαὶ νοσφίσσαντο <span class="bibl">D.P.684</span> ; νοσφίσατ' ἐκ θυμοῖο καὶ ἡδέος ἐκ βιότοιο <span class="bibl">Q.S.10.79</span>.—Rare in Att. Prose.</span>