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νεῦμα

neuma · τό

nod, sign, a mere nod, expression of will, command

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

νεῦμα · neuma — LSJ

nod, sign, a mere nod

nod, sign, Th. 1.134; νεύματος ἕνεκα χαλεπαίνειν for a mere nod, X. An. 5.8.20; ν. χειρός Onos. 26.1.

2 expression of will, command, approval, sanction, control

expression of will, command, μονοψήφοισι νεύμασι A. Supp. 373 (lyr.); ἀπὸ νεύματος προστάττειν τινί Plb. 21.38.4; approval, sanction, ἀετὸς φέρων ἐκ Διὸς ταῖς εὐχαῖς ν. Philostr. Her. 12a. 1, cf. IG 3.636; control, ὑποτάττειν Παλαιστίνην τῷ ν. τινός Chor.p.28B.

II quarter of the heavens

quarter of the heavens, D.P. 517.

2 direction

generally, direction, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.4.39, PMag.Par. 1.178.

In the wild

νεύμασιν · neumasin Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 371–374
νεῦμα · neuma Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5347)
νεῦμα · neuma Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6228)
νεύμασιν · neumasin Septuaginta, Isaias 3
νεύματι · neumati Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 8
νεύματι · neumati Thucydides, History 1.134.1 (DIORISIS sentence 838)

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