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μεσόω , (μέσος)
A.to be in or at the middle, “τόδ᾽ ἴσθι, μηδέπω μεσοῦν κακόν” A.Pers.435; “ἐν ἀρχῇ πῆμα κοὐδέπω μεσσῖ” E.Med.60; “ἐπειδὴ τὸ δρᾶμα ἤδη μεσοίη” Ar.Ra.924; esp. of Time, μεσοῦσα ἡμέρη midday, Hdt. 3.104; θέρους μεσοῦντος in midssummer, Th.5.57; “ἐν [ἐνιαυτῷ] μεσοῦντι” X.HG2.2.24; πρὸς ἥλιον μεσοῦντα to wards midday, Thphr.CP2.4.8; “μεσούντων τῶν ζῳδίων” Hipparch.2.3.19.
2. c. gen., to be in the middle of, “τῆς ἀναβάσιος” Hdt.1.181; “τὰ δὲ καὶ μεσοῦν τούτων” Pl.R. 618b; μεσοῦντα τῆς ἀρχῆς in the middle of his time of office, Sch. Aeschin.3.12: and c. part., “μεσοῦν δειπνοῦντας” Pl.Smp.175c.
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 (10):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 12
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 435
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 924
    • Euripides, Medea, 60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.181
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.104
    • Plato, Republic, 618b
    • Plato, Symposium, 175c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.57
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.2.24
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