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νῆστις

νῆστις, not eating, fasting

νῆστις, gen. ιος or ιδος, ὁ and ἡ (v. infr.); also dat. νήστει Hp. Acut. 60: pl. νήστεις Antiph. 138, D.H. Rh. 9.16: (νη-, ἔδω):—
  • not eating, fasting, of persons, ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους Il. 19.207; νήστιες ἄχρι . . κνέφαος Od. 18.370, cf. Diocl. Fr. 43, Ev.Matt. 15.32, etc.; νήστισιν ἐπιθέντες οἱ πολέμιοι Onos. 12.1: c. gen., νῆστις βορᾶς E. IT 973: metaph., νῆστιν ἀνὰ . . ψάμμαν over the hungry sand, A. Pr. 573 (lyr.).
      • 2 with an abstract Subst., freq. in A., νῆστιν νόσον famine, Ag. 1016 (lyr.); ν. λιμός Ch. 250; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr. 599 (lyr.); νήστιδες δύαι Ag. 1621; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, Phryn. PS p.91 B.
      • 3 Act., causing hunger, starving, πνοαὶ νήστιδες A. Ag. 193 (lyr.).
    • II as Subst., νῆστις, ἡ, acc. νῆστιν Ar. Fr. 318.3, 506.4, Eub. 110.
      • 1 the intestinum jejunum, from its always being found empty, Hp. Carn. 19, Ar. Fr. 506.4, Eub. 63.5 (anap.), cf. Arist. PA 675b33.
      • 2 ν. κεστρεύς, fish so called because its stomach was always found empty, Ar. Fr. 156, etc.: hence in Com., of ‘empty bellies’, ἐγὼ δὲ κεστρεὺς νῆστις οἴκαδʼ ἀποτρέχω Alex. 256, etc., cf. Ath. 7.307d.
      • 3 Νῆστις, ἡ, = ὕδωρ, Emp. 6.3, cf. Alex. 322.

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