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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: kateimi 2: sunapokathistêmi 3: anostimos 4: kathodion 5: automatia
Latin1: epanodus 2: reditio 3: apocatastaticus 4: remeo 5: Domiducus
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Words That Regularly Appear With nostos
In Perseus Texts:erchomaiOdusseuspatêrAchaiosAchaia
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nost-os, ho, (neomai) return home, Hom., esp. in Od., nostoio telos glukeroio au=Od. =lr ; n. meliêdea au=Hom. Od. 11.100, al. : freq. c. gen. pers., Achaiôn n. au=Hom. Od. 1.326, al. : c. gen. objecti, ôlese . . noston Achaiidos lost his chance of returning to Greece, au=Hom. Od. 23.68 ; gês patrôias n. Eur. IT 1066 ; ep' eurea nôta thalassês Hom. Od. 3.142 ; n. es domous Soph. OC 1409 : in pl., nostoi ek polemôn Aesch. Pers. 861 (lyr.); ômoi emôn n. Soph. Aj. 900 (lyr.); oiktra nostois auda IDEM=Soph. El. 193 (lyr.) : generally, return, nêas epi Hom. Il. 10.509.

2. generally, travel, journey, epimaieo nostou gaiês Phaiêkôn to the land of the P., Hom. Od. 5.344 ; epiphorbês n. journey after (i. e. in search of) food, Soph. Phil. 43 ; n. pros Ilion, Iliou purgous epi, Eur. IA 966, au=Eur. IA 1261.

3. as pr. n. Nostoi, the homeward journeys of the Greek heroes after the taking of Troy, title of Cyclic Epic, Paus. 10.28.7, etc. ; of a work by Anticlides, Ath.11.466c.

II. yield or produce of grain when ground, Trypho ap.Ath.14.618d ; = geusis, Gloss., cf. Hsch.