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μέλεος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Or.207 (lyr.):—
A.idle, useless, “οὐδέ τί σε χρὴ ἑστάμεναι μέλεον σὺν τεύχεσιν” Il.10.480; “μελέη δέ μοι ἔσσεται ὁρμή” Od.5.416; “οὐ μ. εἰρήσεται αἶνος” Il.23.795; μ. δέ οἱ εὖχος ἔδωκας a vaunt unearned, 21.473: neut. μέλεον as Adv., in vain, “μέλεον δ᾽ ἠκόντισαν ἄμφω” 16.336.
II. after Hom., unhappy, miserable, ὦ μέλεοι, τί κάθησθε; Orac. ap. Hdt.7.140, etc.; μέλεος γάμων unhappy in marriage, A.Th.779 (lyr.); “ὤμοι ἐγὼ σοῦ μ.” S.Tr.972 (lyr.), cf. E.IT868 (lyr.), Men.Epit.470.
2. of acts, conditions, etc., “ἔργα” A.Ch.1007 (anap.); θάνατοι, πάθα, Id.Th.879 (anap.), S.Ant.977 (lyr.); “ὀνόματα” Antiph.209.8. [μέλεοι is disyll. in A.Th.878 (lyr.), 945 (lyr.).]
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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