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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

  • ἀλλὰ τί δειμαίνω περιώσιον ἀντὶ μὲν αἰχμῆσ ὡσ θοὸν ἔγχοσ ἔχουσα μελίφρονα δεσμὸν ἐρώτων; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 149)
  • χειρὶ δ’ ἐλαφρίζουσα μελίφρονα δεσμὸν ἐρώτων στῆθοσ ἅπαν γύμνωσε καὶ οὐκ ἐμνήσατο μαζῶν. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 184)
  • τὸν μὲν ἔπειτ’ εἰάσε Διὸσ ταλακάρδιοσ υἱόσ, αὐτὸσ δὲ βροτολοιγὸν Ἄρην προσιόντα δοκεύσασ, δεινὸν ὁρῶν ὄσσοισι, λέων ὣσ σώματι κύρσασ, ὅσ τε μάλ’ ἐνδυκέωσ ῥινὸν κρατεροῖσ ὀνύχεσσι σχίσσασ ὅττι τάχιστα μελίφρονα θυμὸν ἀπηύρα· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 39:1)
  • Κλειὼ καλλιχόρου κιθάρησ μελιηδέα μολπὴν Εὐτέρπη τραγικοῖο χοροῦ πολυηχέα φωνὴν Μελπομένη θνητοῖσι μελίφρονα βάρβιτον εὑρ͂ε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5042)
  • "τίσ οὐκ ἂν εἴποι ἐπὶ κῶμον Ἑλληνικῶσ κωμισσᾶτον λέγεσθαι, καὶ τὸ κεράσαι μισκῆραι καθ’ Ὅμηρον, ἡ δ’ αὖτ’ ἐν κρητῆρι μελίφρονα οἶνον ἔμισγε καί μῆνσαν μὲν τὴν τράπεζαν ἀπὸ τῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:2)

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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