A.drink of honey and milk offered as a libation to the powers of the nether world, “χοὴν χεῖσθαι πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι, πρῶτα μελικρήτῳ, μετέπειτα δὲ ἡδέϊ οἴνῳ” Od.10.519, cf. SIG1025.34 (Cos); “μελίκρατα γάλακτος” E. Or.115; also, a mixture of honey and water, Hp. Aph.5.41, Arist. Metaph.1092b29, Com.Adesp. 128, Antyll. ap. Orib.5.29.7, Gal. ap. Orib.5.14.1, cf. Sch.S.OC481, Thphr. HP9.11.2; “μ. θερμόν” POxy.1088.61.
μελίκρα_τον , Ion. μελί-κρητον , τό, (κεράννυμι)
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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