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νομ-άς

nomas · ὁ

roaming about for pasture

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Where it lives

Job 5 · 3.75/10k
De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Paralipomenon I 3 · 2.26/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Histories 37 · 2.02/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Regnorum III 3 · 1.57/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νομ-άς · nom-as — LSJ

roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribes

roaming about for pasture: οἱ νομάδες pastoral tribes, Choeril. 3, Hdt. 1.15, 125, 4.187, 7.85, Arist. Pol. 1256a31; στρατηγὸς νομάδων OGI 616.3 (Arabia); ν. Σκύθαι Pi. Fr. 105, A. Pr. 709; Ἰνδαί Id. Supp. 284; of the Cyclopes, E. Cyc. 120.

metaph., of a prostitute, Ph. 2.327.

3 Numidian, guinea-fowl, Numidian

pr. n., Numidian, Plb. 1.19.3, al.: hence νομάδες ὄρνεις guinea-fowl, Ptol.Euerg. 2 (a) J.; νομάς alone, Artem. ap. Ath. 14.663e; ν. λίθος Numidian marble, Luc. Hipp. 6.

II roaming, grazing, of the pastures, wild, exposed, turned adrift, distributing

fem. Adj. roaming, grazing, ἵπποι S. Tr. 271; ἔλαφος Id. Fr. 89; ἐπʼ ἀκταῖς νομάδα . . ἁλιάετον E. Fr. 636; δάμαλις ν. calf of the pastures, i.e. fatted, LXX 1 Ki. 28.24; ν. περιστεραί wild doves, Gal. 6.435, cf. 12.302; of Oedipus exposed, turned adrift on Cithaeron, S. OT 1350 (lyr.); of irrigation-channels, κρῆναι Κηφισοῦ νομάδες ῥεέθρων Id. OC 687 (unless distributing, cf. νέμω).

2 pastoral

pastoral, βίος Scymn. 832.

3 game

ν. τράπεζα game diet, Him. Or. 25.3.

νομάσιν αὐγαῖς is dub.l. in Tim. Pers. 89.

In the wild

νομάδας · nomadas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 709–711
νομάδας · nomadas Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 284–286
νομάδεσσι · nomadessi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 682)
νομάδες · nomades Aristotle, Politics 1256a (DIORISIS sentence 167)
νομὰς · nomas Aristotle, Politics 1256a (DIORISIS sentence 168)
νομάδας · nomadas Aristotle, Politics 1329b (DIORISIS sentence 2706)

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