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μελάγχλαινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελάγχλαινος μελάγχλαινον

Structure: μελαγχλαιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. black-cloaked

Examples

  • χρῶνται δὲ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ ἐσθῆτι μελαίνῃ ὡσ τὸ πολὺ ἀπὸ γένουσ τινὸσ Σκυθῶν τῶν Μελαγχλαίνων, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκοῦσι, κατὰ τοῦτο ὀνομασθέντων ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:2)
  • Μελαγχλαίνων δὲ τὸ κατύπερθε λίμναι καὶ ἔρημοσ ἐστὶ ἀνθρώπων, κατ’ ὅσον ἡμεῖσ ἴδμεν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 20 2:2)
  • ἤδη ὧν ἀπὸ μὲν Ἴστρου τὰ κατύπερθε ἐσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν φέροντα ἀποκληίεται ἡ Σκυθικὴ ὑπὸ πρώτων Ἀγαθύρσων, μετὰ δὲ Νευρῶν, ἔπειτα δὲ Ἀνδροφάγων, τελευταίων δὲ Μελαγχλαίνων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 100 2:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ οἱ συνελθόντεσ βασιλέεσ Ταύρων καὶ Ἀγαθύρσων καὶ Νευρῶν καὶ Ἀνδροφάγων καὶ Μελαγχλαίνων καὶ Γελωνῶν καὶ Βουδίνων καὶ Σαυροματέων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 102 3:1)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Γελωνὸσ καὶ ὁ Βουδῖνοσ καὶ ὁ Σαυρομάτησ κατὰ τὠυτὸ γενόμενοι ὑπεδέκοντο Σκύθῃσι τιμωρήσειν, ὁ δὲ Ἀγάθυρσοσ καὶ Νευρὸσ καὶ Ἀνδροφάγοσ καὶ οἱ τῶν Μελαγχλαίνων καὶ Ταύρων τάδε Σκύθῃσι ὑπεκρίναντο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 119 1:2)

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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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