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μέλεος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλεος μέλεᾱ μέλεον

Structure: μελε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. idle, useless, in vain
  2. unhappy, miserable, unhappy

Examples

  • ὦ μέλεοι θνητοὶ καὶ νήπιοι, ἐσ κεφαλὴν σοί. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:1)
  • λιθούμεθα πάντεσ ἀπλάτου οὐ Γοργοῦσ, γόγγρου δ’ οἱ μέλεοι λοπάδι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 34 2:5)
  • ἰὼ ἰὼ δύσφρονεσ, φίλων ἄπιστοι καὶ κακῶν ἀτρύμονεσ, δόμουσ πατρῴουσ ἑλόν‐ τεσ μέλεοι σὺν αἰχμᾷ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 11)
  • μέλεοι δῆθ’ οἳ μελέουσ θανάτουσ εὑρ́οντο δόμων ἐπὶ λύμῃ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 12)
  • ἔχουσι μοῖραν λαχόντεσ οἱ μέλεοι διοδότων ἀχθέων· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 41)

Synonyms

  1. idle

  2. unhappy

Related

Similar forms

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

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