Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A. cooked by the sun, ripe, B.Fr.34, Hdt.4.23, S.Fr.181 ; “ἄπιος” Alex.33.5 (Sup.); opp. ὠμός, Ar.Eq.260, X.Oec.19.19 ; of wine, mellow, Ar.Fr.579, etc.; πέπονα ποιεῖν τινα, by beating him, Com.Adesp.125.

b. of abscesses, ripe, ready to suppurate, Hermipp. 30.

2. σίκυος π. a kind of gourd or melon, not eaten till quite ripe (whereas the σίκυος was eaten unripe), Hp.Morb.3.17, Vict.2.55, Pl. Com.64.4, Anaxil.36, Arist.Pr.926b4, Diocl.Fr.120; πέπων alone distd. from “σίκυος, τοὺς σικύους καὶ τοὺς πέπονας” LXXNu.11.5, cf. Speus. ap. Ath.2.68e, Phan.Hist.34, Dsc.2.135, etc.: prov., “μαλθακώτερος πέπονος σικύου” Theopomp.Com.72 ; “ἀνὴρ ἐκεῖνος ἦν πεπαίτερος μόρων” A.Fr.264 ; “π. ἀπίοιο” Theoc.7.120.

II. metaph., as always in Hom. (more freq. in Il. than in Od.), and in Hes., in addressing a person, mostly as a term of endearment or familiarity, kind, gentle, “πέπον Καπανηϊάδη” Il.5.109 ; “Κύκνε πέπον” Hes.Sc.350 ; ὦ πέπον good brother!, gentle sir!, Il.6.55, 9.252, Hes.Th.544, 560, etc.; κριὲ πέπον my pet ram (says Polyphemus), Od.9.447 : Comp., of a ἑταίρα, Xenarch.4.9 : in bad sense, “ὦ πέπονες” ye weaklings! Il.2.235.

2. mild, less acrid, “ῥεύματα” Hp.VM19（Comp.) : hence metaph., mild, gentle, “πεπαιτέρα γὰρ μοῖρα τῆς τυραννίδος” A.Ag.1365 ; μόχθος πέπων softened pain, S.OC437, etc.: c. dat., ἐχθροῖσι π. gentle to thy foes, A.Eu.66. (Cf. πέπειρος, πέσσω.)