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μελίρρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελίρρυτος μελίρρυτον

Structure: μελιρρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. honey-flowing

Examples

  • λέγουσι γὰρ δήπουθεν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ οἱ ποιηταὶ ὅτι ἀπὸ κρηνῶν μελιρρύτων ἐκ Μουσῶν κήπων τινῶν καὶ ναπῶν δρεπόμενοι τὰ μέλη ἡμῖν φέρουσιν ὥσπερ αἱ μέλιτται, καὶ αὐτοὶ οὕτω πετόμενοι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. honey-flowing

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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