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Μυ_σός , ὁ, Mysian, A.Pers.52 (anap.), etc.: proverbially feeble and effeminate, whence prov. Μυσῶν λεία, i. e.
A.a prey to all, of anything that can be plundered with impunity, Stratt.35, D.18.72, Arist.Rh. 1372b33; ὁ Μυσῶν ἔσχατος the most worthless of men, Magn.5, cf. Philem.77, Men.55; τῶν λεγομένων M. “ὁ ἔσχατος” Pl.Tht.209b; “εἴ σοι Μυσόν γε ἥδιον καλεῖν” Id.Grg.521b, cf. E.Fr.704.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 52
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 72
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 209b
    • Plato, Gorgias, 521b
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