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|Definition=η, ον, also ος, ον (<span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>279</span>), <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[bastard]], [[baseborn]], i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός <span class="bibl">Il.2.727</span>, etc.; παῖδες ν. <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.103</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ap.</span>27d</span>; opp. [[γνήσιος]], <span class="bibl">Il.11.102</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Av.</span>1650</span>; <b class="b3">ὅδ', εἰ ν. τις, gnhsi/ois i)/son sqe/nei</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>87</span>; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span>12.8</span>: fem., κούρη νόθη <span class="bibl">Il.13.173</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> at Athens, [[child of a citizen father and an alien mother]], <span class="bibl">D.23.213</span>, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Them.</span>1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> pl., in Egypt, a class of [[temple-attendants]], Wilcken <span class="title">Chr.</span>66 (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> of animals, [[cross-bred]], πρόβατα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.32.15</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[spurious]], [[counterfeit]], [[supposititious]], of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>52b</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Dam. <span class="title">Pr.</span>26</span>; ν. παιδείᾳ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>741a</span>; ν. ἡδοναί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>587c</span>; [[ἀοιδαί]] Call.l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>669b28</span>; <b class="b3">αἱ ν. πλευραί</b> the [[false]] ribs, <span class="bibl">Paus. 1.35.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>4.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">SA</span>2.6</span>; ν. πυρετός Gal.11.30; <b class="b3">ν. σάλπιγξ</b>, of a serpent's hiss, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>35.214</span>; <b class="b3">ν. φέγγος</b>, of the moon, opp. [[γνήσιον]], of the sun, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.628</span>; ν. ἱματισμός <b class="b2">meretricious, Peripl.M</b>. <span class="title">Rubr.</span>39,49. Adv. -θως [[insincerely]], [[disingenuously]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ma.</span>3.17</span>, cf. Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of literary works, [[spurious]], <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Plot.</span>16</span>.</span>