νόθος
nothos
bastard, baseborn
Appears 11 times across Plato's dialogues.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
νόθος, η, ον, also ος, ον ( Fr. 279), A. bastard, baseborn, i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός Il. 2.727, etc.; παῖδες ν. 8.103, Ap. 27d; opp. γνήσιος, Il. 11.102, Av. 1650; ὅδʼ, εἰ ν. τις, γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει Fr. 87; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε Ep.Hebr. 12.8: fem., κούρη νόθη Il. 13.173. 2. at Athens, child of a citizen father and an alien mother, 23.213, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός Them. 1. 3. pl., in Egypt, a class of temple-attendants, Wilcken Chr. 66 (iii B.C.). 4. of animals, cross-bred, πρόβατα PHib. 1.32.15 (iii B.C.). II. generally, spurious, counterfeit, supposititious, of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. Ti. 52b, cf. Pr. 26; ν. παιδείᾳ Lg. 741a; ν. ἡδοναί R. 587c; ἀοιδαί Call.l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν PA 669b28; αἱ ν. πλευραί the false ribs, 1.35.6, UP 4.9, SA 2.6; ν. πυρετός 11.30; ν. σάλπιγξ, of a serpentʼs hiss, D. 35.214; ν. φέγγος, of the moon, opp. γνήσιον, of the sun, 1.628; ν. ἱματισμός meretricious, Peripl.M. Rubr. 39,49. Adv. -θως insincerely, disingenuously, 3 Ma. 3.17, cf. 2. of literary works, spurious, Plot. 16.
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