A.grow black, only in Il.7.64 Ζεφύροιο ἐχεύατο πόντον ἔπι φρίξ . . , μελάνει δέ τε πόντος ὑπ᾽ αὐτῆς (sc. τῆς φρικός), cf. Arist.Pr. 934a15; but Aristarch. read πόντον in the second clause and took μελάνει trans., = μελαίνει (sc. Ζέφυρος), makes the sea black:—later writers use μελανέω , intr. (which implies the reading μελανεῖ δέ τε πόντος), Thphr.Ign.50, A.R.4.1574, Arat.836; “τὸ καλὸν μελανεῦντα” Call.Epigr.53; “μικκὴ καὶ μελανεῦσα” AP5.120 (Phld.).
μελάν-ω , intr.,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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