The corpus record

νομεύς

nomeus · ὁ

herdsman, dealer out, distributor, ribs

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Where it lives

Minos 7 · 24.54/10k
Statesman 8 · 4.72/10k
For Phormio 1 · 2.55/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Memorabilia 4 · 1.12/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Ezechiel 3 · 1.04/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Theaetetus 2 · 0.89/10k
Cyropaedia 7 · 0.89/10k
Odyssey 7 · 0.81/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νομ-εύς · nom-eus — LSJ

herdsman

herdsman, κύνες τʼ ἄνδρες τε νομῆες Il. 17.65; δύω δʼ ἅμʼ ἕποντο νομῆες, opp. the chief herdsman, Od. 17.214, cf. 16.3, 17.246: generic term including the special αἰπόλος, βουκόλος, ποιμήν, συβώτης, cf. Pl. Tht. 174d, R. 370d; βοῶν ἀγέλης ν. X. Mem. 1.2.32; ν. προβάτων Arist. EN 1161a14.

II dealer out, distributor

dealer out, distributor, ἀγαθῶν Pl. Lg. 931d, cf. Min. 317d, 321b.

III ribs

pl., = ἐγκοίλια, ribs of a ship, Hdt. 1.194, 2.96, cf. Hsch.; also, = σχοῖνοι ἀρμένων, Id.

In the wild

νομῆς · nomēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1116b (DIORISIS sentence 938)
νομεὺς · nomeus Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1161a (DIORISIS sentence 2938)
νομῆς · nomēs Aristotle, Politics 1303b (DIORISIS sentence 1892)
νομεῖς · nomeis Aristotle, Politics 1319a (DIORISIS sentence 2349)
νομῇ · nomēi Demosthenes, For Phormio 12 (DIORISIS sentence 33)
νομέας · nomeas Herodotus, Histories 1.194.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1374)

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Where it came from

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