ναός

ναός, ὁ, Dor., Thess., etc. form, Leg.Gort. 1.42, IG 9(2).517.45 (Larissa, iii B.C.), etc., used also in Trag. (even dialogue) to the exclusion of νεώς, S. El. 8, E. Hipp. 31, al., exc. A. Pers. 810, rare in Att. Prose and Com., Pl. R. 394a, Lg. 738c, 814b, Arist. EN 1174a24, Posidipp. 29.1, more freq. in X., HG 2.3.20, An. 5.3.9, al., found in Att. Inscrr.from iii B.C., IG 22.1314.18, 1315.28, etc., and in Hellenistic and later Gr. (along with νεώς), SIG 277 (Priene, iv B.C.), 214 (Phanagoria, iv B.C.), 494.3 (Delph., iii B.C.), LXX 1 Ki. 1.9, al. (νεώς only in 2 Ma.), UPZ 6.22 (ii B.C.), Plb. 9.30.2 (νεώς Plb. 10.4.4), etc.; Ion.νηός, always in Hom. and Hdt. (v. infr.), but gen. νε[ώ] IG 12(7).1.4 (Amorgos, v B.C.); dat. νειῴ Michel 832.38 (Samos, iv B.C.); Att. νεώς (Attic Inscrr. of v-iii B.C. (v. infr.), once in Trag. (v. supr.), freq. in Prose authors and found in Com. (v. infr.)); declension, nom. νεώς X. HG 1.6.1; gen. νεώ IG 12.4.9,80.6, Ar. Pl. 733, IG 22.1524.45, SIG 1219.32 (Gambreum, iii B.C.); dat. νεῴ IG 12.6.122, 256.4, Antipho 6.39, Alex. 40.3, IG 22.1504.7; acc. νεών ib.12.24.13, al., X. HG 6.5.9, Ar. Nu. 401, Pl. 741, Philem. 139, f.l. in E. HF 340, later νεώ IG 22.212.35 (iv B.C.), al., LXX 2 Ma. 6.2, al., D.S. 16.58 (v.l. νεών), SIG 877A 10 (ii/ iii A.D.), v.l. in D.H. 4.26, but νεών Aristid. Or. 27(16).19 (v.l. νεώ), Ach.Tat. 3.6 (v.l. νεώ Bast Epist.Crit.p.176), etc.: pl. nom. νεῴ X. HG 6.4.7; acc. νεώς A. Pers. 810, Isoc. 5.117, Plb. 10.4.4; dat. νεῴς IG 12.384; on the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.8: Aeol. ναῦος Alc. 9, IG 12 (2).60.27 (Mytil.); Spartan ναϝός ib.5(1).1564 (pl., found at Delos, v/iv B.C.):—A. temple, Il. 1.39, al., Pi. O. 13.21 (pl.), etc. II. inmost part of a temple, shrine containing the image of the god, Hdt. 1.183, 6.19, X. Ap. 15, UPZl.c.; ἐν παντὶ ἱερῷ ὅπου ναός ἐστι PGnom. 79 (ii A.D.). III. portable shrine carried in processions, Hdt. 2.63, D.S. 1.15, etc. IV. metaph., of Christians, ν. θεοῦ ἐστε 1 Ep.Cor. 3.16; of the body of Christ, Ev.Jo. 2.19,21. [νᾰόν and νᾰῶ Orph. Fr. 32biv (Phaestus, ii B.C.); elsewh. ᾱ.] (Perh. fr. νᾰσ-ϝός, cf. ναίω.)