νειός

νειός, ἡ, also νεός X. (v. infr.), SIG 963.8 (Amorgos, iv B.C.),

• fallow-land, νειοῖο βαθείης Il. 10.353; ν. τρίπολος a thrice-ploughed fallow, 18.541, Od. 5.127, Hes. Th. 971, cf. Call. Dian. 175, etc.; μὴ καρπίζεσθαι τὴν γῆν ἀλλὰ νειὸν ποιεῖν rejuvenate it, Thphr. CP 4.8.1, cf. 4.8.3, HP 8.7.2; νειὸν ἄρουραν Hes. Op. 463; of a mare, ἕνα ἐνιαυτὸν . . ἀνάγκη διαλείπειν καὶ ποιεῖν ὥσπερ νειόν Arist. HA 577a2.
• • • 2 ploughing and sowing of land to reinvigorate it, νειὸς ἀμείνων ἡ χειμέριος τῆς ἐαρινῆς Thphr. HP 8.6.3; ἡ ἀρίστη νειὸς ἀπὸ τῶν κυάμων prob. cj. ib. 8.7.2; εἰς νειὸν ἀροῦν Gp. 3.6.7, 3.11.8; τῷ σπόρῳ νεὸν δεῖ ὑπεργάζεσθαι X. Oec. 16.10, cf. SIG l.c.:—also νέα, ἡ, Thphr. CP 3.20.7, IG 2(2).334.17; also παρασκάψει τὴν γῆν νειάν SIG 963.46. (Cf. OSlav. njiva ‘field’.)

νειός, ἡ, eigtl. ion. = νέος, sc. γῆ, wie auch Hes. sagt νειὸν ἄρουραν σπείρειν, O. 465, die Brache, das Land, welches eine Weile unbenutzt gelegen hat u. neu aufgebrochen, frisch gepflügt wird, novale, νειὸν μαλακὴν τρίπολον, Il. 18.541, weiches, dreimal gepflügtes Brachland ; βαθεῖα, 10.353, 18.547 u. öfter ; Hes. Th. 971 ; auch Theophr.; Dion.Hal. 10.17 u. a.Sp.

νειός

-οῦ, ἡ

[νέος.]

A fallow field (in process of being ploughed up) : ἑλκέμεναι νειοῖο ἄροτρον (genit. of space) Il. 10.353. Cf. Il. 13.703, Il. 18.541, 547 : Od. 5.127, Od. 8.124, Od. 13.32.

νειός (νέος): sc. γῆ, new land, fallow land, newly ploughed after having lain fallow; thrice ploughed, after such rest, in Il. 18.541, Od. 5.137.

νειός,

• Lat. novale, new land, i. e. land ploughed up anew after being left fallow, fallow-land, Il.; νειὸς τρίπολος a thrice-ploughed fallow, Hom.: in Attic also νεός, Xen.