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μελετ-άω , fut. -ήσω Th.1.80, etc., -ήσομαι Luc.Sol. 6, Philostr.VS1.24.2:—post-Hom. Verb,
A.take thought or care for, c. gen., βίου, ἔργου, Hes.Op.316, 443: c. acc. rei, “δόξαν ἀρετῆς” Th. 6.11; of a physician, treat a case, Hp.Int.27, etc.:—Pass., of the patient, ib.26, etc.
2. attend to, study, οὐ δύναμαι ἀκοῦσαι, τοῦτο μελετῶν (sc. τὸ ἀκοῦσαι) Hdt.3.115; “πλήθους δόξας μεμελετηκώς” Pl. Phdr.260c.
II. pursue, exercise, [μαντείην] h.Merc.557; μ. τοῦτο (sc. ἡμεροδρόμην εἶναι) Hdt.6.105: freq. in Att., “μ. σοφίαν” Ar.Pl. 511; τέχνας, ῥητορικήν, Pl.Grg.511b, 511c, 448d; practise, ἤθη, γαστριμαργίας, ὕβρεις, Id.Phd.81e; “ὄρχησιν” Id.Lg.813e; [νόμους] E.Ba.892 (lyr.); “ἀστοῖς ἴσα χρὴ μελετᾶν” S.OC171 (anap.); “τὴν τῶν πολεμικῶν ἄσκησιν” Arist.Pol.1333b39: generally, “μ. ἄδικα” LXX Jb.27.4; “ταῦτα μελέτα” 1 Ep.Ti.4.15; esp. practise speaking, con over a speech in one's mind, “λογάρια δύστηνα μελετήσας” D.19.255; “ἀπολογίαν” Id.46.1; also, deliver, declaim (cf. 11.5 b), “λόγους” D.C.40.54:—Pass., τὸ ναυτικὸν οὐκ ἐνδέχεται ἐκ παρέργου μελετᾶσθαι naval warfare cannot be practised 'en amateur', Th.1.142; εὐταξία μετὰ κινδύνων μελετωμένη discipline put in practice on the battle-field, Id.6.72, cf. Pl.R.455c.
2. c. inf., μετρίως ἀλγεῖν μελετᾷ σοφία practises moderation in grief, E. Fr.46; “λαλεῖν μεμελετήκασί που” Ar.Ec.119; also “μ. τοξεύειν καὶ ἀκοντίζειν” X.Cyr.1.2.12, cf. Antipho 3.2.3; “μ. ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν” Lys.10.9; μ. ἀποθνῄσκειν, τεθνάναι, practise dying, death, Pl.Phd.67e, 81a, cf. Epicur.Fr.470.
3. less freq. c. part., “μ. κυβερνῶντες” X.Ath.1.20; with ὡς and part., Id.Cyr.5.5.47.
4. with Prep., “μ. ἔν τινι” LXX Jo. 1.8,al.
5. abs., study, train oneself, Ar.Ec.164, Th.1.80, X.HG 3.4.16; ἦν τὸ ἱππικὸν μεμελετηκός ib.6.4.10: c. dat. modi, “τόξῳ μ. καὶ ἀκοντίῳ” Id.Cyr.2.1.21; ἐν τῷ μὴ μελετῶντι by want of practice, Th.1.142.
b. esp. practise oratory, declaim, Pl.Phdr.228b; ἐπὶ τῶν καιρῶν μ. extemporize a speech, D.61.43; “Ἑλληνιστὶ μ.” Plu.Cic.4, cf. 2.131a, Luc.Sol.6, Philostr. VS1.24.2, AP11.145; of actors, Arist. Pr.904b3.
6. Medic., of disease, threaten, “μ. τὴν τοῦ καρκινώματος γένεσιν” Leonid. ap. Aët.16.43: abs., “ἢν κρύβδην μελετήσῃ . . ἡ νοῦσος” Aret.SD2.12:—Pass., “ἀπειλᾷ καὶ μελετᾶται μανία” Steph. in Hp.1.99 D., cf. Aët.16.63.
7. c. acc. pers., exercise, train persons, ἐμελέτησεν [αὐτοὺς] ὡς εἶεν . . X.Cyr.8.1.42: c. inf., “οὓς ἀναβαίνειν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἵππους μελετᾷ Φείδων” Mnesim.4.7:—Pass., μελετώμενοι ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν τὴν πτῆσιν, of eaglets, Philostr.VA1.7.
III. Gramm., to be accustomed, c. inf., “μεμελέτηκε τὸ τ_ εἰς θ_ τρέπεσθαι” An.Ox.1.66; “τὰ μὴ μελετήσανταπάσχεινσυναίρεσιν” Theognost. Can.145.25.
b. Medic., acquire a habit, “μελετησάντων ἐκπίπτειν βραχιόνων” Gal.14.782:— Pass., become chronic, “μελετηθὲν τὸ πάθος” Aët.16.67.
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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