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μήλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήλειος μήλειον

Structure: μηλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh=lon

Sense

  1. of a sheep, of sheep

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οἱ δ’ ἱερεῖσ οὕτω δυσχεραίνουσι τὴν τῶν περιττωμάτων φύσιν, ὥστε μὴ μόνον παραιτεῖσθαι τῶν ὀσπρίων τὰ πολλὰ καὶ τῶν κρεῶν τὰ μήλεια καὶ ὑειά, πολλὴν ποιοῦντα περίττωσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἅλασ τῶν σιτίων ἐν ταῖσ ἁγνείαισ ἀφαιρεῖν, ἄλλασ τε πλείονασ αἰτίασ ἔχοντασ καὶ τὸ ποτικωτέρουσ καὶ βρωτικωτέρουσ ποιεῖν ἐπιθήγοντασ τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 51)
  • Σαυρίδιον, οἶνοσ καὶ λίνου καρπὸσ παραμίγνυται λεπτόσ‧ καὶ τόδε, ὁ τοῦ λίνου καρπὸσ, καὶ ἄγνοσ ὠμὸσ, καὶ μηλεία στυπτηρίη, ὄξει ταῦτα δευθέντα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.6)

Synonyms

  1. of a sheep

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

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