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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

  • νυκτὸσ δὲ τῆσδε πρὸσ τάφον μολὼν πατρὸσ δάκρυά τ’ ἔδωκα καὶ κόμησ ἀπηρξάμην πυρᾷ τ’ ἐπέσφαξ’ αἷμα μηλείου φόνου, λαθὼν τυράννουσ οἳ κρατοῦσι τῆσδε γῆσ. (Euripides, episode 5:4)
  • αὐτοῖσ μηλείοισ θήκαθ’ ὑπὸ προγόνοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 9:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἐσιδεῖν ὄσσοισιν, ὅσοι μὴ πλεκτὸν ὕφασμα σχοίνου ἑλειοτρόφου κοῖλον χείρεσσιν ἔχοντεσ εἰώθασι δονεῖν ψήφουσ αἴθωνι λυγισμῷ ἄρθρων μηλείων τ’ ἐπ’ ἄγρην δωρήματα βάλλειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 72 2:1)
  • 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)
  • δὴ τότε δ’ ἤδη τῆμοσ ὑφ’ Ἡρακλῆι δαϊχθεὶσ μήλειον βέβλητο ποτὶ στύποσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 22:18)

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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