The corpus record

νεάζω

neazo

to be young

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be young, new, youth, thinking, acting like a youth, to be full of youthful spirit

intr., to be young or new, τὸ νεάζον youth, S. Tr. 144; νεάζων thinking or acting like a youth, E. Ph. 713; ν. τῷ τρόπῳ Men. 749: metaph., to be full of youthful spirit, φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν ὕβρις παλαιὰ νεάζουσαν ὕβριν A. Ag. 764 (lyr.), cf. Supp. 105 (lyr.); νεάζειν ἀρχόμενος Alciphr. 1.28.

2 to be the younger of two

to be the younger of two, ὁ μὲν νεάζων S. OC 374.

3 grow, be young again

grow or be young again, AP l.c.; ὅπως γηράσκων νεάζῃ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς Epicur. Ep. 3p.59U.

II to be renewed

Pass., to be renewed, στέμμα . . ἐκ πατρὸς παιδὶ νεαζόμενον AP 15.6.

III

= νεάω, Hsch.s.h.v.

νεάζομεν· ἀφικνούμεθα, Id.

In the wild

νεάζουσαν · neazousan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 763–771
νεάζει · neazei Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 104–111
νεάζῃ · neazēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9219)
νεάζον · neazon Epictetus, Fragments 0 (DIORISIS sentence 20)
νεάζων · neazōn Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 406)
νεάζων · neazōn Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 919)

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Where it came from

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