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νόσ-ημα

nosema · τό

disease, passion, vice, grievous affliction

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νόσ-ημα · nos-ēma — LSJ

disease

disease, Hp. Flat. 1, S. Ph. 755, E. El. 656, Th. 2.49, 53, etc.; τὰ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ν. Isoc. 8.39; νοσήμασι περιπίπτειν X. Cyr. 6.2.27; νοσήματα τῶν σπερμάτων Thphr. HP 8.10.1; [τῶν φυτῶν] ib. 4.14.1.

2 passion, vice

metaph., of passion, vice, etc., ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι ν. A. Pr. 227; ν. γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους ib. 685; νοσοῖμʼ ἄν, εἰ ν. τοὺς ἐχθροὺς στυγεῖν ib. 978; of love, S. Fr. 149.1; τὸ ν. τῆς ἀδικίας Pl. Grg. 480b, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.103.

b grievous affliction, disorder

of any grievous affliction, S. OT 1293; esp. of disorder in a state, τυραννίδα . . ἔσχατον πόλεως ν. Pl. R. 544c, cf. D. 19.259, etc.

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