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νότ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον A.Pr.402 (lyr.), Str.2.1.22, etc. :—
A.moist, damp, rainy, ν. ἱδρώς damp sweat, Il.11.811, 23.715 ; “ν. θέρος” Pi.Fr.107.13 ; “ἔαρ” Hp.Aph.3.11, cf. Arist.Pr.860a36 ; “παγαί” A. l.c. ; ὑψοῦ δ᾽ ἐν νοτίῳ τήν γ᾽ ὅρμισαν [ναῦν] well out in the water, opp. the beach, Od.4.785, 8.55 ; “ν. δῖναι ἅλμας” E.Hipp.150 (lyr.) : Comp., Str.4.4.1.
2. bringing rain, “ἀστέρες” Arat.238, cf. 490 (both Comp.).
II. to the south, southern, “ν. θάλασσα” Hdt.4.13, 6.31 ; esp. of the Indian Ocean, Id.3.17, cf. 2.11,158 ; τὸ τεῖχος τὸ ν., at Athens, And.3.7 ; ν. ἀήτης a south wind, A.R.4.1538 ; νότια (with or without πνεύματα) southerly winds, Arist.Mete.364a19, Pol.1290a14 ; “νοτίοις” during southerly winds, Id.HA574a1 ; “νότια πνεῖ” Thphr. CP1.13.5 ; “ἐὰν ᾖ νότια” Id.HP4.14.9 ; “ὁ ν. ἀήρ” Arist.Mete.377b27 ; τὰ ν. ὕδατα southerly rains, ib.358a28 ; ν. [ὕδωρ] water from southern slopes, Id.HA596a28 ; ν. Ἰχθῦς, the constellation Piscis Australis, Eudox. ap. Hipparch.2.1.21 (“νότειος Ἰ.” PLond.1.130.148 (i/ii A.D.)) : Comp. “-ώτερος” Porph.Antr.21 : Sup. “-ώτατος” Str.13.1.68.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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