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νόθος

νόθος, a bastard; in Athens, also child of citizen father and alien mother

νόθ-ος, η, ον, also ος, ον (Call. Fr. 279),
  • bastard, baseborn, i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός Il. 2.727, etc.; παῖδες ν. Hdt. 8.103, Pl. Ap. 27d; opp. γνήσιος, Il. 11.102, Ar. Av. 1650; ὅδʼ, εἰ ν. τις, γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει S. 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, D. 23.213, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός Plu. 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. Pl. Ti. 52b, cf. Dam. Pr. 26; ν. παιδείᾳ Pl. Lg. 741a; ν. ἡδοναί Id. R. 587c; ἀοιδαί Call. l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν Arist. PA 669b28; αἱ ν. πλευραί the false ribs, Paus. 1.35.6, Gal. UP 4.9, Aret. SA 2.6; ν. πυρετός Gal. 11.30; ν. σάλπιγξ, of a serpentʼs hiss, Nonn. D. 35.214; ν. φέγγος, of the moon, opp. γνήσιον, of the sun, Ph. 1.628; ν. ἱματισμός meretricious, Peripl.M.Rubr. 39, 49. Adv. -θως insincerely, disingenuously, LXX 3 Ma. 3.17, cf. Hsch.
      • 2 of literary works, spurious, Porph. Plot. 16.

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