A.fixed up to the middle, μεσσοπαγὲς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔθηκε κατ᾽ ὄχθης μείλινον ἔγχος drove it in up to the middle, Il.21.172:—Aristarch. preferred the v.l. μεσσοπαλές , quivering up to the middle (cf. Hsch.); but it is doubtful whether -παλές could mean quivering, and μεσσοπαγής is found in late Poets, as Nonn.D.1.233.
μεσο-πα^γής , ές, Ep. μεσσο- , (παγῆναι)
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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