Hom., etc. (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in
NT,
Act.Ap.27.41, πλοῖον being generally used); ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at
the ships,
i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, Il.2.688, 11.659; νῆες μακραί
ships
of war, built long and taper for speed, Th.1.41, etc.; opp. νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-
ships,
Hdt.1.163, etc.; νέεσ alone, = τριήρεισ, opp. πεντηκόντεροι,Id.8.1; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, D.3.5; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, A.Pers.380.— Att. d νεων (νηων is v.l. in Lys.13.15), ναυοί, ναυσ; in later writers, m. pl. ναῦς, acc. pl. νῆας,D.S.13.13, Plb.5.2.4, etc., cf. Phryn.147:— Ep. νηῦσ, νηός, νηί̈, νῆα, pl. νῆες, νηῶν, νηυσί or νήεσσι, νῆασ (but also gen. and acc. sg. νεός, νέα [the latter as monosyll. in Od.9.283], pl. νέες, νεῶν, νέεσσι, νέασ); Ep. gen. and dat. pl. ναῦφι, -φιν,Il.2.794, 16.281, Od.14.498; in late Ep., nom. νῆυσ dub. l. in Mosch.2.104, cf. EM440.17; acc. sg. and pl. νηῦν, νηῦς,A.R.1.1358, Herod.2.3, Dem. Bith.4.6: Hdn.Gr.1.401, 2.675,553 also gives νεῦς, νεί̈ (v.l. in Hdt. 7.184), and νευσί (Hp.Ep.27, Sammelb.5829):— Ion. νηῦσ, νεός, νηί̈, νέα, pl. νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν Epigr. in IG12(8).683 (Thasos, vi/v B. C.)), νέασ (but νηόσArchil.(?) in PLit.Lond.54; νηόσ is freq. in codd. of Hdt., νηῶν 7.160):— Dor. ναῦσ (νᾶσ Hdn.Gr.1.400), νᾱόσPi.P.4.185, al., νᾱί̈Id.O.13.54, al. (νᾷ perh. to be read in Alcm.23 iii 27), ναῦνPi.P.4.245, Fr.234 (νᾶν Hdn.Gr.1.328, νᾶαB.16.89); pl. νᾶεσPi.O.12.4,al., ναῶνId.P.1.74, ναυσί, ναυσίν,Id.N.7.29, P.3.68 (νάεσσι ib.4.56), νᾶασ f.l. in Theoc.22.17:— Aeol. sg. gen. νᾶος, dat. νᾶϊ, pl. dat. νάεσσι,Alc.19,18,79, gen. νᾱ́ωνId.Supp.12.9, Sapph.Supp.5.2:— Trag. commonly use Dor. forms in lyr., Att. in dialogue (but sts. ναός, ναῶν,A.Th.62, Pers.340, etc.); the Ep. forms νηόσS.Fr.761, νηῶνE.IT1485, νῆασA.Supp.744 (lyr.), νηυσίνId.Pers.370 (cod. M) are prob. corrupt. (Cf. Skt.