Dictionary Noos

• noos, noou, ho, Att. contr. nous, gen. nou: Hom. uses the contr. form once, in nom., Hom. Od. 10.240, cf. Hes.Fr.205 (Hdt. never): Trag. use contr. form, exc. in Aesch. Lib. 742 (iamb.), Soph. Phil. 1209 (lyr.): Aeol. gen. nô Alc.Supp.9.1; acc.nôn Sapph.IBID=au=Alc. Supp.25.2; noon Ead.au=Alc. Supp.25.70=lr (s.v.l.): heterocl. forms are found in ti=Alc.NT and later writers, gen. noos Ep.Rom.7.23, LXX4 Ma.1.35; dat. noï 1 Ep.Cor.1.10, [Aristid.] Or.35(9).26; nom. pl. noes Ph.1.86, Plot.6.7.17, Dam.Pr.96; acc. pl. noas Plu. Fr.7.27, Iamb.Myst.1.15, Ammon.in Int.243.3 (v.l.), Dam.Pr.103: Att. pl. noi, acc. nous, gen. noôn IBID=au=Dam.Pr.122, dat. nois Ibid=Dam. Pr.122, is rare in early writers, as Ar.Fr.471, but freq. in later philosophy:

• I. 1. a. mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, ou lêthe Dios pukinon n. Hom. Il. 15.461; n. polukerdea Hom. Od. 13.255; n. horêi kai n. akouei, talla kôpha kai tuphla Epich.249, cf. Soph. OT 371;
• I. 1. b. noôi prudently, Hom. Od. 6.320;
• I. 1. c. parek noon senselessly, Hom. Il. 20.133;
• I. 1. d. sun noôi wisely, Hdt. 8.86, au=Hdt. 8.138=lr; xun nôi with play on xunôi, Heraclit.114 (noôi codd. Stob.); xun nôi helomenôiPlat. Rep. 619b; oudeni xun nôi IDEM=Plat. Crito 48c; mêdeni xun nôi Aristoph. Cl. 580; tou nou chôris Soph. OT 550; tou n. kenos IDEM=Soph. OC 931; noôi labein ti to apprehend it, Hdt. 3.51,
• I. 1. e. noôi schein, echein, recall, remember, IDEM=Hdt. 5.92.ê, Plat. Rep. 490a; koinos n. Phld.Rh.1.37S., Arr.Epict.3.6.8; agathos n., spoudaios n., Phld.Rh.2.61, au=Phld. Rh.1.252S.
• I. 2. noun echein in two senses,
• I. 2. a. to have sense, be sensible, Soph. Trach. 553, ti=Soph. El. 1013, au=Soph. El. 1465, Aristoph. Frogs 535, etc.; ho nous hod' autos n. echôn ou tunchaneiEur. IA 1139; so n. oligon kektêmenos Aristoph. Eccl. 747; smikron nou kektêsthai Plat. Laws 887e; impers., to gar perissa prassein ouk echei n. oudenaSoph. Ant. 68, cf. Plat. Tim. 68b; cf. nounechontôs.
• I. 2. b. noun or ton n. echein to have one's mind directed to something, allos' omma, thêterai de n. echeinSoph. Trach. 272, cf. Sapph.Supp.25.2; ton n. pros hauton ouk echôn, ekeise de Eur. Phoen. 1418; deuro n. eche IDEM=Eur. Orest. 1181; oikoi ton n. echein IDEM=Eur. Ion 251; pou ton n. echeis; Aristoph. Eccl. 156; ton n. echein pros tina or ti (like prosechein ton n.) Thuc. 7.19, Plat. Gorg. 504d; pros tini IDEM=Plat. Prot. 324a, etc.; peri tinos IDEM=Plat. Rep. 534b; en perdixin AP7.206 (Damoch.): conversely, epi noun elthein tini to occur to one, D.H.3.15, Arr.An.7.24.3.
• I. 3. a. mind, more widely, as employed in feeling, deciding, etc., heart, chaire noôi Hom. Od. 8.78; keuthe noôi Hom. Il. 1.363; [cholos] oidanei noon au=Hom. Il. 9.554; eni stêthessin atarbêtos n. esti au=Hom. Il. 3.63; n. empedos, akêlêtos, apênês, au=Hom. Il. 11.813, Hom. Od. 10.329, au=Hom. Od. 18.381; n. eumenês, agnamptos, etc., Pind. P. 8.18, Aesch. PB 164 (lyr.), etc.; pollôn anthrôpôn noon egnô Hom. Od. 1.3;
• I. 3. b. ek pantos noou with all his heart and soul, Hdt. 8.97;
• I. 3. c. tôi nôi . . kapo tês glôssês in heart as well as tongue, Soph. OC 936:
• I. 3. d. freq. in phrase kata noon according to one's mind, Hdt. 1.117, au=Hdt. 7.104; ei tad' echei kata noun keinôi Soph. OC 1768 (anap.); praxeias kata n. ton emon IDEM=S.Fr.469 (anap.); kata n. praxas Aristoph. Kn. 549; chôrei kata n. IDEM=Aristoph. Peace 940, cf. Plat. Euthyph. 3e.
• I. 4. a. mind, resolve, purpose, agathôi noôi, i.e. kindly, Hdt. 1.60;
• I. 4. b. ti soi en noôi esti poieein; what do you intend to do? IBID=au=Hdt. 1.109=lr; hêmin en n. egeneto eipein IDEM=Hdt. 9.46;
• I. 4. c. en n. echein c. fut. inf., to intend . . , IDEM=Hdt. 1.10 (v.l.): c. pres. inf., IBID=au=Hdt. 1.27=lr, Plat. Rep. 344d;
• I. 4. d. poieein ti epi noon tini to put into his mind to do . . , Hdt. 1.27; epi noon trepein tini . . IDEM=Hdt. 3.21; tautêi <ho> n. ephere IDEM=Hdt. 9.120.
• I. 5. a. reason, intellect, noou phreni Xenoph.25, cf. Parm.16.2, etc.; theios n. Democr.112, cf. Id.ap.Arist. de An.404a28; opp. doxa, Plat. Tim. 51d, cf. Arist. de An.428a5.
• I. 5. b. ti=Arist. Mind as the active principle of the Universe, Anaxag.12, etc.; Thalês noun tou kosmou ton theon Placit.1.7.11; hê tou kosmou genesis ex anankês kai nou sustaseôsPlat. Tim. 48a, cf. ti=Plat. Soph. 249a, ti=Plat. Phileb. 30c, Aristot. Met. 1072b20, ti=Arist. de An.430a17, Zeno Stoic.1.28, Plot.5.1.4.

• II. 1. act of mind, thought, hêmin d' ou tis toude noos kai mêtis ameinôn Hom. Il. 15.509; ou gar tis noon allos ameinona toude noêsei au=Hom. Il. 9.104; ou gar dê touton men ebouleusas noon autêHom. Od. 5.23.
• II. 2. purpose, design, noon telein tini Hom. Il. 23.149; sapha oisth' hoios n. Atreïônos au=Hom. Il. 2.192.

• III. 1. sense, meaning of a word, etc., houtos ho noos tou rhêmatos Hdt. 7.162, cf. Aristoph. Frogs 1439, Plb.5.83.4, Phld.Rh.1.106S., etc.; ho noos tês thusiês cj. for nomos in Hdt. 1.216;
• III. 2. meaning of a work of art, Philostr.VA4.28; polus n. en oligêi lexei sunestaltai Plu.2.510e;
• III. 3. pros ton auton noun to the same effect, Str.15.3.7;
• III. 4. pros noun ouden legontes to the point, Phld.Mus.p.96K.;
• III. 5. oude noun echon senseless, IDEM=Phld.Po.5.29.

• IV. Pythag. name for monas, Theol.Ar.6. (Etym. dub.; the pr.n. PolunoWa IG9(1).870 hardly proves noWos.)

See also

• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: noos

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