νοῦς (nous)
Short definition (LSJ): v. νόος.
Full entry: Lexicon.
873 occurrences of this form in 86 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- On the Migration of Abraham
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- Metaphysics
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Philebus
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- On the Confusion of Languages
- Laws
- On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Meditations
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- About the Planting of Noah
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On Drunkenness
- On Fugitives
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- 4 Maccabees
- On the Mysteries
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Giants
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On Rewards and Punishments
- Platonic Questions
- Letter to Marcella
- Knights
- Discourses
- Andromache
- The Trojan Women
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- Letters
- Timaeus
- On the Education of Children
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Histories
- Acharnians
- Lysistrata
- Peace
- Helen
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- On Sobriety
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Ion
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Isis and Osiris
- On Fortune
- Antigone
- Electra
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Birds
- Clouds
- Ecclesiazusae
- Frogs
- Wasps
- Library of History
- Hecuba
- Hippolytus
- Medea
- Odyssey
- Life of Pythagoras
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 16
- Against Flaccus
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- Cratylus
- Phaedo
- Republic
- On Controlling Anger
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- Life of Pythagoras
- Ajax
- Oedipus Rex
- Idylls
- Cyropaedia
- Memorabilia
Example passages
……δεῖ δὲ λαβεῖν ἐκεῖ οὐκ ἐκρέουσαν, ἀλλὰ μένουσαν μὲν τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην ὑφισταμένην. οὖσα οὖν ἀπὸ νοῦ νοερά ἐστι, καὶ ἐν λογισμοῖς ὁ νοῦς αὐτῆς καὶ ἡ τελείωσις ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ πάλιν οἷον πατρὸς ἐκθρέψαντος, ὃν οὐ τέλειον ὡς πρὸς αὑτὸν ἐγέννησεν. ἥ τε οὖν ὑπόστασις αὐτῇ ἀπὸ νοῦ ὅ τε ἐνεργείᾳ λόγος νοῦ αὐτῇ ὁρωμένου. ὅταν γὰρ ἐνίδῃ εἰς νοῦν,……
…ἀγροῖς δὲ ἀπεικάζει δυσὶ τήν τε ἰδέαν τοῦ νοῦ καὶ τὴν ἰδέαν τῆς αἰσθήσεως· φέρει γὰρ ὁ μὲν νοῦς καρπὸν τὰ ἐν τῷ νοεῖν, ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις τὰ ἐν τῷ αἰσθάνεσθαι. ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· ὥσπερ τοῦ ἐπὶ μέρους καὶ ἀτόμου νοῦ προϋπάρχει τις ἰδέα ὡς ἂν ἀρχέτυπος καὶ παράδειγμα τούτου καὶ πάλιν τῆς……
……οὐδὲ ἀσθενὴς τῷ μερισμῷ οὐδὲ ἐλλιπὴς οὐδὲ τοῖς μέρεσι γενόμενος ἅτε ἑκάστου μὴ ἀποσπασθέντος τοῦ ὅλου: ἀλλ’ ἡ πᾶσα ζωὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶς νοῦς ἐν ἑνὶ ζῶσα καὶ νοοῦσα ὁμοῦ καὶ τὸ μέρος παρέχεται ὅλον καὶ πᾶν αὐτῷ φίλον οὐ χωρισθὲν ἄλλο ἀπ’ ἄλλου οὐδὲ ἕτερον γεγενημένον μόνον καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπεξενωμένον: ὅθεν οὐδὲ ἀδικεῖ ἄλλο ἄλλο οὐδ’ ἂν ᾖ……