Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μήλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήλη

Structure: μηλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a probe

Declension

First 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

  • οὐ μήλῃ, τριόδοντι δ’ ἐνήλειψέν με Χαρῖνοσ, σπόγγον ἔχων καινὸν τῶν γραφικῶν πινάκων τὴν μήλην δ’ ἕλκων, ἐξέσπασε τὸ βλέφαρόν μου ῥιζόθεν ἡ μήλη δ’ ἔνδον ἔμεινεν ὅλη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1261)
  • Ἑτέρη θεραπείη‧ ὠμόλινον λαβὼν ὡσ λεπτότατον, συμβάλλειν ὅσον σπιθαμιαῖον πεντάπλουν, καὶ ξυμπεριλαβεῖν ἱππείην τρίχα‧ ἔπειτα ποιησάμενοσ μήλην κασσιτερίνην ἐπ’ ἄκρου τετρημένην, ἐνείρασ ἐσ τὴν μήλην τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ ὠμολίνου συμβεβλημένου, καθιέναι τὴν μήλην ἐσ τὴν σύριγγα, καὶ ἅμα τῆσ ἀριστερῆσ χειρὸσ τὸν δάκτυλον τὸν λιχανὸν καθιέναι ἐσ τὴν ἕδρην‧ ἐπὴν δὲ ψαύσῃ ἡ μήλη τοῦ δακτύλου, ἄγειν ἔξω τῷ δακτύλῳ, ἀποκάμψασ τῆσ μήλησ τὸ ἄκρον καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν τὴν ἐν τῇ μήλῃ‧ καὶ τὴν μὲν μήλην πάλιν ἐξαιρέειν, τοῦ δὲ ὠμολίνου τὰσ ἀρχὰσ ἀφάψαι δὶσ ἢ τρίσ‧ καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ ὠμολίνου ἐπιστρέψασ, ἐπιδῆσαι πρὸσ τὸ ἄμμα‧ ἔπειτα κελεύειν ἀπελθόντα διαπρήσσεσθαι τὰ ἑωυτοῦ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 4.1)

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

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