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μ465Μελαίνῃdark, black… me/las, me/laina, me/lan (LSJ s.v. at web address 1). In Homer it is used variously of emotions (fre/nes), ships, the earth, blood, water, and the sea; see Cunliffe 1963 s.v. This feminine dative singular …Matched in noteshighshort
μ464Μελάνυδροςblack-watered, dark-watered… itself, mela/nudros, is an epic epithet of springs. See e.g. Homer, Odyssey 20.158: "twenty women went to the black-watered spring" (ai( me\n e)ei/kosi bh=san e)pi\ krh/nhn mela/nudron). Same or similar entry in other lexica …Matched in noteshighshort
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneselfThis entry, without the quotations from Homer and Plato, also appears in Photius (lambda430 Theodoridis); and cf. scholia to Plato, Republic 405C, where the headword participle (from the verb lugi/zw) occurs; see further below, …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1174Μνόωντοthey were wooing… mno/wnto instead of what it should be, mnw/onto -- from Homer, Odyssey 11.288 (web address 1). See Cunliffe s.v. mna/omai, definition 3. Other forms of this verb appear at mu 1149 and mu 1177.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1149Μνᾶταιhe is wooing… of the deponent verb mna/omai. This form appears twice in Homer, at Odyssey 16.77 -- the scholia to which provide the gloss here -- and 19.529 (web addresses 1 and 2). same entry in …Matched in noteshighshort
μ473Μελεδήματαcares, concernsThe headword, evidently quoted from somewhere (probably Homer, where it occurs once in the Iliad and 4 times in the Odyssey; cf. next note), is a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative plural. [1] Likewise …Matched in noteshighshort
μ470Μελδόμενοςbeing boiled-down, being melted-down… boiling. It is quoted here (and in other lexica) from Homer, Iliad 21.363 (web address 1 below), where Hephaestus' defeat of the River Xanthus is likened to a pig's fat melting. (See also under …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1335Μῶνυξsingle-hoofed, uncloven-hoofed… The adjective mw=nuc is a common epithet of horses in Homer (e.g. Iliad 5.236: see web address 2 below), though this actual phrase is not otherwise attested. *monw/nuc (accentuation varies) occurs in grammarians and …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1168Μνηστῆραςsuitors, wooers… This noun is commonly found in its literal sense in Homer (e.g. Odyssey 1.91) for Penelope's suitors. In the unidentifiable prose quotation given here, it has a figurative sense.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1169Μνῆστιςremembrance, recollection[1] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 13.280, where the headword occurs. [2] Tecmessa to Ajax at Sophocles, Ajax 520-1, 523-4 (web address 1). The quotation omits line 522: xa/ris xa/rin ga/r e)stin h( …Matched in noteshighshort
μ471Μέλδοντεςmelting down… also mu 470. [1] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 322 Pfeiffer. [2] Homer, Iliad 21.363 (web address 2 below). There, and again here, the participle (masculine nominative singular) is middle voice, meldo/menos. The Suda's gloss uses …Matched in noteshighshort

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