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νεώτερος , α, ον, Comp. of νέος, of persons,
A.younger, “γενεῆφι ν.” Il. 21.439; “ὢν φύσει ν.” S.OC1295; too young, Od.21.132; a minor, Th. 3.26; “οἱ ν.” men of military age, Id.5.50; τὸ πρεσβύτερόν τε καὶ τὸ ν. ib.64: c. gen., οἱ ν. τῶν πεπραγμένων those who are too young to remember the events, D.18.50; οἱ ν. the new school, of poets, Cic.Att.7.2.1; of poets later than Homer, Sch.Il.16.574, 24.257.
2. Sup., “γενεῇ δὲ νεώτατος ἔσκον ἁπάντων” Il.7.153, etc.; ἡ ν. δημοκρατία, opp. ἡ πατρία δ., Arist.Pol.1305a29.
II. of events, newer, more recent, “νεώτερον κακόν” Pi.P.4.155; of recent origin, “Δημόκριτος μουσικήν φησι ν. εἶναι” Phld.Mus.p.108K.: metaph., later, worse, “ν. βούλευμα” S.Ph. 560; νεώτερον πρήσσειν contrive calamity, injury, Hdt.5.106: freq. with τι“, ἤν τι καταλαμβάνῃ ν. τὸν πεζὸν [στρατόν]” Id.8.21; “δέδοικα μή τι δρᾷ ν.” Ar.Ec.338, cf. Pi.Fr.107.6, Theoc.24.40; μή τι ν. ἀγγέλλεις; Pl.Prt.310b; “νεώτερόν τι ποιεῖν ἔς τινα” Th.1.132; “κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Hdt.8.142; “περὶ πόλιν Ἑλλάδα” Id.5.93; “νεώτερα βουλεύειν περί τινος” Id.1.210; “μηδὲν νεώτερον ποιεῖν περὶ ἀνδρῶν” Th.2.6.
2. freq. of rebellion or violent revolution, “ν. τι ποιέειν” Hdt.5.35, etc.; ν. πρήγματα πρήξειν ib.19; “νεωτέρων πραγμάτων ἐπιθυμεῖν” Isoc.7.59, X.HG5.2.9, etc.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 7.2.1
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 338
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 50
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.210
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.106
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.93
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.142
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.21
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.574
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.439
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.257
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.153
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.132
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 59
    • Plato, Protagoras, 310b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1295
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 560
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.132
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.6
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.26
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.50
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.9
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