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|Definition=[[νέα]], Ion. [[νέη]], [[νέον]]; Ion. [[νεῖος]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]): [fem. [[νέας]] as monosyll., A.''Th.''327 (lyr.); contr. fem.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[νῆ]] Xenoph.42 (= Ar.''Fr.''9), Eugaeon (?) ''1'']:<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[young]], [[youthful]] (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as 30, v. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''1.2.35), ν. πάϊς Od.4.665; κοῦροι ν. Il.13.95; ν. ἀνήρ 23.589: alone, νέοι [[youths]], 1.463, Hes.''Sc.''281, etc.: later mostly with Art., οἱ νέοι Ar.''Nu.''1059, etc.: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ὁ νέος ἔσται νέος]] '[[boys will be boys]]', Lib.''Ep.''910.3; <b class="b3">οἱ ν.</b>, corporately organized, ''SIG''831.8 (Pergam., ii A.D.), etc.; opp. [[ἔφηβοι]], [[παῖδες]], ib.589.38 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.):opp. [[γέρων]], ἠμὲν νέοι ἠδὲ γέροντες Il.2.789, etc.; ἢ ν. ἠὲ παλαιός 14.108, cf. Od.1.395, etc.; opp. [[γεραίτερος]], 3.24; opp. [[προγενέστερος]], 2.29; opp. [[γεραιός]], X.''Lac.''1.7; <b class="b3">εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν</b> from [[youth upwards]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 510d, etc.; ἐκ νέων παίδων Id.''Lg.''887d; ἐκ νέων ἐθίζεσθαι [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1103b24; <b class="b3">ἐκ νέας</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[ψυχῆς]]) [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 409a; <b class="b3">τὸ ν.</b>, = [[νεότης]], [[youth]] (in the abstract), [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''1229 (lyr.), [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''545: also in concrete sense, <b class="b3">τὸ ν. ἅπαν</b> all [[young creatures]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''653d; οὐ δύναται τὸ ν. ἡσυχάζειν Arist.''Pol.''1340b29; σκιρτητικὸν τὸ ν. Corn. ''ND''20; also, of [[minors]], νέου ὄντος ἔτι Th.1.107; cf. [[νεώτερος]].<br><span class="bld">b</span> rarely of animals and plants, [[ὄρπηκες]], [[ἔρνος]], Il.21.38, Od.6.163; οἱ ν. τῶν νεβρῶν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cynegeticus|Cyn.]]''9.8.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[suited to a youth]], [[youthful]], ἄεθλοι Pi.''O.''2.43; ν. θράσος [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''744 (troch.); <b class="b3">ν. φροντίς</b> [[youthful]] spirits, E.''Med.''48; νέαις ταῖς διανοίαις χρωμένους Lys.24.16; of persons, ἄφρων νέος τε E.''IA''489, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 378a; ν. τε καὶ ὀξύς Id.''Grg.''463e (but διαφέρει οὐδὲν ν. τὴν ἡλικίαν ἢ τὸ ἦθος νεαρός [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1095a6).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[new]], [[fresh]], ν. θάλαμος Il.17.36; ν. ἄλγος 6.462; νέῳ… κόλλοπι Od.21.407 (this sense elsewhere in Hom. only in Adv. [[νέον]], v. infr.); λίνον Alc.15 (dub.); πόνοι… νέοι παλαιοῖσι συμμιγεῖς κακοῖς A.''Th.''740 (lyr.), etc.; οἶνος ν. Ar.''Pax''916; ἐν τοῖς μουσικοῖς τὰ ν. [μέλη] εὐδοκιμεῖ [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.6.38; <b class="b3">ἡ ν.</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[σελήνη]]) the [[new]] moon, especially in phrase <b class="b3">ἕνη καὶ νέα</b>, v. [[ἕνος]] 2; but <b class="b3">μηνὸς τῇ ν.</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[ἡμέρᾳ]]) [[on the first day]] of the month, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''849b; ν. ἦμαρ A.R.4.1479: in this sense rarely of persons, ὁ ν. ταγὸς μακάρων [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''96 (anap.), cf. Ar. ''Pl.''960; οἱ ν. θεοί A.''Eu.''721; cf. [[νεώτερος]].<br><span class="bld">2</span> of events, etc., [[new]], with collat. notion of [[unexpected]], [[strange]], [[untoward]], [[evil]], <b class="b3">τί ν.</b>; Id.''Ag.''85 (anap.); προσδοκῶ τι γὰρ ν. [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Supplices|Supp.]]''99; <b class="b3">μῶν τι βουλεύῃ ν.</b>; S.''Ph.''1229, cf. 554, E.''Hipp.''794, ''Ba.''362. Th.5.50. etc.: ἀπροσδοκήτους καὶ ν. λόγους A.''Supp.''712; καινὰ ν. τ' ἄχη Id.''Pers.''665 (lyr.): this sense is more common in Comp., v. [[νεώτερος]].<br><span class="bld">III</span> neut. [[νέον]] as adverb of [[time]], [[lately]], [[just now]], opp. [[both to distant past and present]], παῖδα ν. γεγαῶτα Od.19.400, cf. Il.3.394; ν. κρατεῖν [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]'' 35,955, etc.: also used Adverbially with the Art., <b class="b3">καὶ τὸ πάλαι</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[παλαιόν]]) καὶ τὸ ν. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.26: in Prose [[νεωστί]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]): rarely Comp. Adv. [[νεωτέρως]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''907c: Sup. νεώτατα [[most recently]], Th.1.7; also <b class="b3">ἐκ νέας</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">αὖτις ἐκ νέης</b>, [[anew]], [[afresh]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.60, 5.116.<br><span class="bld">IV</span>. the degrees of Comp. are [[νεώτερος]], [[νεώτατος]], v. [[νεώτερος]]: [[νεαίτερος]] is corrupt for [[νεαίρετος]] in A.''Fr.''330. ([[νέϝος]] (in [[νεϝόστατος]], [[quod vide|q.v.]]), cf. Skt. návas, Lat. [[novus]], etc.)