Intuition (Nous)

"In the epics, nous refers to general intelligence, including accurate perception and practical effectiveness. Thus, 'bold Hektor' is advised to refrain from pushing the battle forward at an inopportune time. After arguing that one man cannot have all gifts (that some fight, others dance), Poulydamas counsels at Iliad XIII:
and in the breast of another Zeus of the wide brows establishes wisdom, a lordly thing, and many take profit beside him and he saves many, but the man's own thought (noon) surpasses all others. (Lattimore translation).
And when Eumaios speaks despairingly to Odysseus, the latter at once 'had an idea (noon) in his mind' (Book XIV, 1). Recalling the intimate relation of nous to being in Parmenides, one can discern the outline of a path which begins with nous as a widely conceived and applied general intelligence and narrows to its role as pure intellect beholding the pure forms."

Bernard Freydberg, Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others), Peter Lang, 2000: 19.