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νεα^ρός , ά, όν, poet. for νέος (also in later Prose, v. infr.),
A.youthful, “παῖδες” Il.2.289, cf. Pi.P.10.25, etc.; τὸ ἦθος νεαρός, opp. νέος τὴν ἡλικίαν, Arist.EN1095a7; “νεαροί” youths, A.Ag.359, 1504 (both anap.); “ν. ἥβη” Ar.Fr.467; = νεαλής, ν. στρατός Hdn.3.7.5; “τὸ ν.” youthful spirit, X.Cyr.1.4.3; “λόγος ν. καὶ θεατρικός” Plu.2.802e; “σχηματισμοὶ πολὺ τὸ ν. ἔχοντες” D.H.Comp.23.
2. of things, new, “ὕμνοι” Hes.Fr.265; “νεαρὰ ἐξευρεῖν” Pi.N.8.20; fresh, “μυελός” A.Ag.76 (anap.); “σώματα” X. Cyn.9.10; ν. δέλεαρ, opp. σαπρόν, Arist.HA534b4; “τροφή” Id.PA 675b29; ν. τυρός, ὄστρεα, Dsc.2.71, Ath.1.7d; “-ώτεροι κλῶνες” Gal.12.283; “καππάρεως ὅτι -ωτάτης” PCair.Zen.488 (iii B.C.).
3. of events, recent, “ξυντυχίαι” S.Ant.157 (anap.); of a letter, D.L.1.112.
4. αἱ νεαραί (sc. διατάξεις) title of the novellae of Justinian; “ἡ θεία καὶ ν. διάταξις” PGrenf.1.62.13 (vi A.D.).
II. Adv. “-ρῶς” youthfully, rawly, Luc.Hist.Conscr.50: Comp., “διειλεγμένον -ωτέρως” with more spirit, Isoc.12.229. [νεα<*>- by synizesis, as one long syll., Pi.ll.cc.; cf. νηρός.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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