νόσος

nosos

sickness, disease, plague

Appears 8 times across Homer's epics.

Frequency by work

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Odyssey 5
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Book 5 1
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5395
Book 9 1
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9411
Book 11 2
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11172
11200
Book 15 1
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15408
Iliad 3
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Book 1 1
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110
Book 13 2
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13667
13670

Dictionary (LSJ)

νόσος, Ep. and Ion. (not Dor., cf. Berl.Sitzb. 1927.156 (Cyrene)) νοῦσος, ἡ,

sickness, disease, plague, νοῦσον ἀνὰ στρατὸν ὦρσε κακήν (sc. Apollo), ὀλέκοντο δὲ λαοί Il. 1.10; νοῦσόν γʼ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι Od. 9.411; δολιχὴ ν. 11.172; νοῦσοι ἀργαλέαι Hes. Op. 92:— Phrases: ἐς ν. πεσεῖν A. Pr. 473; ἐς ν. ἐμπίπτειν Antipho 1.20; νόσον ἐμπεπτωκέναι τοῖς κτήνεσιν X. Cyr. 8.3.41; μοι ν. ἐπήλυθεν Od. 11.200; νόσῳ ληφθέντι S. Tr. 445; κάμνειν νόσον, ὑπὸ νόσου, v. κάμνω; ἀσθενεῖν ταύτην τὴν νόσον Isoc. 19.24; ἐκ τῆς νούσου ἀνέστη Hdt. 1.22; θήλεα ν. ib. 105, cf. Hdn. 4.12.2; ἱερὰ νόσος, v. ἱερός IV.8: ν. defined, Gal. 7.43.

II. generally, distress, anguish, Hes. Th. 527, S. OC 544 (lyr.), etc.

2. disease of mind, esp. caused by madness, passion, vice, etc., ν. φρενῶν A. Pers. 750 (troch.); θεία ν., i.e. madness, S. Aj. 185 (lyr.); μανιάσιν ν. ib. 59; λυσσώδη ν. ib. 452; of love, Id. Tr. 491; Ἀφροδίτας ν. E. Hipp. 767 (lyr.); ἀκόλαστον ἔσχε γλῶσσαν, αἰσχίστην ν. Id. Or. 10; τῆς μεγίστης ν., ἀνοίας Pl. Lg. 691d; ν. καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικας; Id. Sph. 228a.

3. plague, bane, mischief, e.g. a whirlwind is θεία ν. S. Ant. 421, cf. 1141 (lyr.); of the trident of Poseidon, A. Pr. 924 (s.v.l.); πεντεσύριγγος ν., of the pillory, Polyeuct. ap. Arist. Rh. 1411a23; κτείνειν τινὰ ὡς νόσον πόλεως Pl. Prt. 322d.

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