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νειός

neios-2

fallow-land

Appears 7 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

νειός, ἡ, also νεός X. (v. infr.), SIG 963.8 (Amorgos, iv B.C.), A. fallow-land, νειοῖο βαθείης Il. 10.353; ν. τρίπολος a thrice-ploughed fallow, 18.541, Od. 5.127, Hes. Th. 971, cf. Call. Dian. 175, etc.; μὴ καρπίζεσθαι τὴν γῆν ἀλλὰ νειὸν ποιεῖν rejuvenate it, Thphr. CP 4.8.1, cf. 4.8.3, HP 8.7.2; νειὸν ἄρουραν Hes. Op. 463; of a mare, ἕνα ἐνιαυτὸν . . ἀνάγκη διαλείπειν καὶ ποιεῖν ὥσπερ νειόν Arist. HA 577a2. 2. ploughing and sowing of land to reinvigorate it, νειὸς ἀμείνων ἡ χειμέριος τῆς ἐαρινῆς Thphr. HP 8.6.3; ἡ ἀρίστη νειὸς ἀπὸ τῶν κυάμων prob. cj. ib.8.7.2; εἰς νειὸν ἀροῦν Gp. 3.6.7, 3.11.8; τῷ σπόρῳ νεὸν δεῖ ὑπεργάζεσθαι X. Oec. 16.10, cf. SIGl. c.:—also νέα, ἡ, Thphr. CP 3.20.7, IG 22.334.17; also παρασκάψει τὴν γῆν νειάν SIG 963.46. (Cf. OSlav. njiva ‘field’.)
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