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νεώτερος

neoteros

younger, too young, a minor

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What it meant

νεώτερος · neōteros — LSJ

younger, too young, a minor, men of military age, too young to remember, new school

younger, γενεῆφι ν. Il. 21.439; ὢν φύσει ν. S. OC 1295; 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.

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Sup., γενεῇ δὲ νεώτατος ἔσκον ἁπάντων Il. 7.153, etc.; ἡ ν. δημοκρατία, opp. ἡ πατρία δ., Arist. Pol. 1305a29.

II newer, more recent, of recent origin, later, worse, calamity, injury

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; νε

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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. HG 5.2.9, etc.

Where it came from

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