Μέλποντες

celebrating with song and dance

Translated by Catharine Roth4 Jun 2008Vetting: high2 revisions

6 words

[Meaning they who are] singing, hymning.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μέλποντες· ᾄδοντες, ἀνυμνοῦντες.

Betacode

*me/lpontes: a)/|dontes, a)numnou=ntes.

The headword is present participle, masculine nominative plural; same glossing in Photius (mu254 Theodoridis) and other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.474, where it occurs.

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