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Headword: *nearoi/
Adler number: nu,116
Translated headword: youthful [ones]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] young [ones], childish [ones].[1]
Also [sc. attested is the comparative] nearw/teros ["more/rather youthful, younger"].
"The more childish of the boys, those who say that the divine does not oversee affairs here."[2]
Greek Original:
*nearoi/: ne/oi, nh/pioi. kai\ *nearw/teros. pai/dwn nearw/teroi oi( le/gontes mh\ e)fora=n ta\ th=|de to\ qei=on.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective. Same or similar glossing in other lexica (see the references at Photius nu76 Theodoridis), with reference to Homer, Iliad 2.289 (where it occurs). The second of the senses glossed does not seem to be independently attested: see LSJ s.v.
[2] Aelian fr. 32 Domingo-Forasté (29 Hercher).
Keywords: children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 September 2008@01:03:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 September 2008@05:46:23.
Catharine Roth (updated reference, tweaked translation) on 14 April 2011@01:32:36.
David Whitehead on 5 June 2013@06:25:54.

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