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ἐμμελής , ές, (μέλος)
A.in tune, harmonious, opp. “πλημμελής, ἐ. φωνή” Ti.Locr.101b, Plu.2.1014c, etc.; “προσόδιον” SIG662.9 (Delos, ii B.C.); “ἁρμονιῶν -εστάτη κρᾶσις” Plu.Phoc.2; λέξις ἐ. D.H.Comp.25; also of a poet, tuneful, Theoc.Ep.21, cf.Philostr.Im.2.12.
II. metaph.,
1. of persons, harmonious, orderly, “τὸν πλημμελοῦντα ἐμμελῆ ποιεῖν” Pl. Criti.106b; ἵνα γένοιντο -έστεροι ib.121b; also “-εστάτη καὶ κοσμιωτάτη πολιτεία” Plu.Pel.19.
b. suitable, fit, proper, “κριτής” Pl.Lg.876d; “πρός τι” Plu.Demetr.2 (Sup.).
c. witty, “ἐ. καὶ χαρίεσσα θεραπαινίς” Pl.Tht.174a.
2. of things, in good taste, ἐμμελέστερόν [ἐστι], c. inf., Ar.Ec.807; “ἐ. ὁμιλία” Arist.EN1128a1.
3. well-proportioned, κτήματα . . ποῖα ἄν τις κεκτημένος ἐμμελεστάτην οὐσίαν κεκτῇτο; Pl.Lg. 776b; reasonable, οὐκ ἐ. Id.Sph.259e: hence, modest, small, opp. μέγιστος, Id.Lg.760a (Sup.); “πόλις μεγέθει ἐμμελεστέρα” Arist.Pol. 1327b15.
b. suitable, “λόγος ἐ. ἐπὶ τὴν χρείαν” Plu.Luc.1.
III. Adv. -λῶς, Aeol. and Ion. -λέως, harmoniously, opp. πλημμελῶς, Pl. Lg.816a; in time, πόδεσσιν ὠρχεῦντ' Sapph.54.
2. elegantly, “ἐ. καὶ μουσικῶς” Arist.Cael.290b30; in good taste, “παίζειν” Id.EN1128a9; δαπανῆσαι μεγάλα ἐ. ib.1122a35.
3. suitably, rightly, “οὐδέ μοι ἐμμελέως τὸ Πιττάκειον νέμεται” Simon.5.8; ἐ. πάντων ἔχειν to be suitably provided with . ., Pl.Prt.321c; “ἐ. φέρειν τὰς τύχας” Arist.EN1100b21; ἐ. εἰρῆσθαι ib.1170b21, etc.: Comp. “-εστέρως, ἔχειν” Pl.Phdr.278d; “-έστερον” Id.R.474a: Sup. -έστατα ib.581b.
4. at a reasonable price, “διδάσκειν” Id.Ap.20c.
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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