ἀπο-νόσφι(ν)

νόσφι(ν)

Grammatical information: adv. a. prep.

Meaning: `aside, far (from), without' (ep. Il.; on the use Schwyzer-Debrunner 540).

Derivatives: νοσφίδιος `situated aside, secretly' (Hes. Fr. 187; Chantraine Form. 39, Schwyzer 467), νοσφιδόν adv. `secretly' (Eust.); νοσφίζομαι (Β 81 = Ω 222), νοσφίσ(σ)ασθαι, νοσφισθῆναι (Od.), fut. νοσφίσ(σ)ομαι (A. R.), also act. νοσφίζω (h. Cer., Pi.), rarely w. prefix, esp. ἀπο-, `turn off, remove (oneself)', act. `turn off, remove'; νόσφισμα n. `embezzlement' (pap.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: No etymology. After Curtius (with Pauli) to νῶτον `back' (s.v.); agreeing Schulze KZ 29, 263 n. 1 (= Kl. Schr. 375 n. 2) and Schwyzer 362, who posits orig. *νοτ-σ-φι. Persson IF 2, 204 compares Lith. nuõ `away from', Latv. nùo, which must probably be explained diff., s. Fraenkel s.v., also WP. 1, 59 and Pok. 40.

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νοσφίζω (νόσφι ‘apart’; Hom. et al.) in our lit. only mid.; 1 aor. ἐνοσφισάμην to put aside for oneself, keep back, of engagement in a type of skimming operation (X., Cyr. 4, 2, 42: Cyrus urges restraint in appropriation of treasure; Polyb. 10, 16, 6: Roman soldiers resist temptation to take booty for themselves without equitable distribution; Plut., Lucull. 517 [37, 2], Aristid. 320 [4, 3]; Jos., Ant. 4, 274; SIG 993, 21; PRyl 116, 10; 2 Macc 4:32) ἀπό τινος some of someth. (PSI 442, 4 [III B.C.]; Josh 7:1.—ἔκ τινος Athen. 6, 23a; Philo, Mos. 1, 253) ἐνοσφίσατο ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς (Ananias) kept back some of the proceeds (not a case of embezzlement) Ac 5:2f (cp. Josh 7:1, 19–26. Diod S 5, 34, 3: lot-holders who hold back [νοσφίζεσθαι] some of their crops, which have been declared common property [κοινοποιεῖσθαι], are subject to the death penalty among the Vaccaei, a Celtic tribe). μηδὲν ὅλως ν. εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν πονηράν keep back or reserve nothing at all for the satisfaction of one’s base desire Hs 9, 25, 2. Abs. (ins [I A.D.]: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ 1, 1928, p. 18 ln. 13; PPetr III, 56 , 10; 12) [b]Tit 2:10.—DELG s.v. νόσφι. M-M. Spicq.

λῐάζομαι, [tense] aor. ἐλιάσθην, [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3pl.

A

λίασθεν Il.23.879

: [ per.] 3sg. [tense] plpf.

λελίαστο Mosch.4.118

(for [voice] Act. v. sub fin.):—bend, incline; and so,

I mostly of persons, go aside, recoil, shrink,

ἐκ ποταμοῖο λιασθείς Od.5.462

;

ἀπὸ πυρκαϊῆς ἑτέρωσε λ. Il.23.231

;

νόσφι λ. 1.349

, 11.80; ὕπαιθα λιάσθη he shrank beneath his attack, 15.520, cf. 21.255; δεῦρο λιάσθης hither hast thou retired, 22.12; παρὰ κληῗδα λιάσθη ἐς πνοιὰς ἀνέμων, of a vision, disappeared by the key-hole, Od.4.838: metaph., stray from the straight path, Emp.2.8; in A.R. of parting, separating from others, 1.94, 3.827, 1164:—once in Trag., πρός σ' ἐλιάσθην hastened to thee, E.Hec.98 (anap.).

2 sink, fall,

πρηνὴς ἐλιάσθη Il.15.543

;

λιαζόμενον ποτὶ γαίῃ 20.420

, cf. 418;

ἐν γῇ Mosch.

l.c.

II of things, ἀμφὶ δ' ἄρα σφι λιάζετο κῦμα retired, drew back, Il.24.96; πτερὰ πυκνὰ λίασθεν (for ἐλιάσθησαν ) the dying bird's thick wings dropped, 23.879; where Aristarch. read λίασσεν it dropped its wings, though the [voice] Act. is not used exc. [tense] impf. λίαζον they loosened (the cables), Lyc.21.