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ἡδυμελής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡδυμελής ἡδυμελές

Structure: ἡδυμελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/los

Sense

  1. sweet-strained, sweet-singing

Examples

  • σοὶ παιὰν φίλοσ ἦν καὶ ὁ χρυσοκόμησ Ὑμέναιοσ, καὶ λιγυρῶν αὐλῶν ἡδυμελεῖσ χάριτεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1772)
  • Ἡδυμελεῖσ Μοῦσαι σὺν πηκτίδι, καὶ λόγοσ ἔμφρων σὺν Πειθοῖ, καὶ Ἔρωσ Κάλλοσ ὑφηνιοχῶν, Ζηνοφίλα, σαὶ σκῆπτρα Πόθων ἀπένειμαν, ἐπεί σοι αἱ τρισσαὶ Χάριτεσ τρεῖσ ἔδοσαν χάριτασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1401)

Synonyms

  1. sweet-strained

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

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