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- ν204Νεόςnew… plowed land. "And a certain farmer sowing wheat in new-plowed [earth] stood on guard."
- ν612Νύξnight… kindly time, and darkness. Night is the shadow of the earth, but not just any [shadow], but that which occurs with the sun as cause, because it is in the hemisphere below the earth, …
- ν550Νωμῶνobserving… everything" -- Sophocles [writes] -- "[taught and] unspoken, celestial and earth-treading".
- ν439Νιφετόςsnowstorm… congealments of watery moisture in the air. Up above the earth, the lesser kind is snow, and the greater kind is hail. Down below on the earth, the lesser is hoar-frost, and the greater …
- ν273Νεφέλαιclouds[Meaning] the smoky vapor rising out of the earth. Also a kind of hunting-net. *nefe/lh is derived from the [verb] nei/fein ["to snow"], that is, to rain, and [from] the [verb] e(/lkein ["to draw"]. …
- ν384Νίκη ἈθηνᾶNike Athena, Athena Nike… quiet and civil, that by which the things of the earth flourish, a boon of which the pomegranate in her right hand is a representation. Just as the helmet in her left [is a …
- ν306Νῆϊςunknowing; Naiad… Samos wild animals existed, and when they gave voice the earth was broken; and they were called neia, according to Eutaion.
- ν163Νέμεσιςnemesis, Nemesis… "Nemesis was present, she who watches the things of the earth"; or in other words, she who watches unjust acts. Babrius says [this] in the Fables. And Aelian [writes]: "palpable evidence of Nemesis the …
- ν524Νοῦςintellect, mind, reason… shrinking, such as the pygmy. Even the center of the earth was conceived of by analogy from smaller spheres. By transposition [something is conceived of] like eyes in the chest; by composition, the hippocentaur; …
- ν247Νεωτεροποιόςinnovator, revolutionary[Meaning a] rebel, tyrant, plotter.