nisus – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
nisus
n.
ambition; effort
Nisus
Nisus may refer to:
Classical mythology
- Nisus of Nisus and Euryalus, son of Hyrtacus, friend of Euryalus, in Virgil's Aeneid
- Nisos, a king of Megara
- Nisus or Silenus, foster father of Dionysus
- Nissus of Dulichium, son of Aretias, father of Amphinomus, in Book 18 of Homer's Odyssey
nisus
Noun
1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal
(synonym) striving, pains, strain
(hypernym) attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
(hyponym) jihad, jehad
Nisus
(n.)
A striving; an effort; a conatus.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Nisus
[Greek heroic] The king of Megara and founder of Megara's harbor Nisaea. When one day Minos besieged Megara, Nisus' daughter Scylla fell in love with their enemy. She cut off the golden hair on her father's head, knowing fully well that his life and the prosperity of the state was connected to his wondrous hair. Megara fell through her treachery and Nisus died, but was turned into a sparrowhawk. Scylla herself was also turned into a bird of prey. (Ovid VIII, 35). The son of Hyrtacus, companion of Aeneas. He and his friend Euryalus (2) died during a nightly raid on the camp of the Rutulians, the enemies of Aeneas in Latium.
