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μελίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελίφρων μελίφρονος

Structure: μελιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. sweet to the mind, delicious

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "εὐρὼσ δάμναται ἔγχεά τε λογχωτὰ ξίφεὰ τ’ ἀμφήκεα, χαλκεᾶν δὲ οὐκέτι σαλπίγγων κτύποσ, οὐδὲ συλᾶται μελίφρων ὕπνοσ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 20 5:2)
  • ἐπὶ ἑξαμέτρου τρίμετρον ἐπαδόμενον ἐρρέτω ἦμαρ ἐκεῖνο, καὶ οὐλομένη σκοτόμαινα, βρόμοσ τε δεινὸσ ἠνεμωμένησ ἁλόσ, οἵ ποτε νῆ’ ἐκύλισαν, ἐφ’ ἧσ ὁ τὰ πολλὰ μελίφρων Ἀβδηρίων ἄπρηκτα θεοῖσιν εὔχετο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 121)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ σῇσιν ἔχε φρεσί, μηδέ σε λήθη αἱρείτω εὖτ’ ἄν σε μελίφρων ὕπνοσ ἀνήῃ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 3:14)

Synonyms

  1. sweet to the mind

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

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