Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Μήλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μήλιος Μήλιᾱ Μήλιον

Structure: Μηλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. from the island of Melos, Melian

Examples

  • Σωκράτησ ὁ Μήλιοσ καὶ Χαιρεφῶν, ὃσ οἶδε τὰ ψυλλῶν ἴχνη. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics22)
  • φησὶ δὲ καὶ Μελανιππίδησ ὁ Μήλιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2 1:6)
  • Μελανιππίδησ δ’ ὁ Μήλιοσ ἐν ταῖσ Δαναίσιν φοίνικασ τὸν καρπὸν οὕτωσ ὀνομάζει τὸν λόγον ποιούμενοσ περὶ αὐτῶν τῶν Δαναίδων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 661)
  • ἔνιοι τῶν φιλοσόφων, καθάπερ Διαγόρασ ὁ Μήλιοσ καὶ Θεόδωροσ ὁ Κυρηναῖοσ καὶ Εὐήμεροσ ὁ Τεγεάτησ, καθόλου φασὶ μὴ εἶναι θεούσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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