α2571Ἀνόστους
without homecoming, without return
[Meaning them] unreturning. For nostos is a return to one's own things, [so called] from the sweetness of one's homeland. Aelian [writes]: "he killed the sacrilegious men and made them without homecoming, this of course…
Ἀνόστους· ἀνυποστρέπτους. νόστος γὰρ ἡ εἰς τὰ οἰκεῖα ἐπάνοδος, παρὰ τὸ τῆς πατρίδος ἡδύ. Αἰλιανός· ὁ δὲ τοὺς θεοσύλας ἀπέκτεινε καὶ ἔθηκεν ἀνόστους τοῦτο δὴ τὸ Ὁμηρικόν.
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