A.lamb or sheep offered at the Athenian Apaturia by a father who was enrolling his son among his “φράτερες, τοῦ μείου” IG 22.1237.5; τὰ μεῖα ib.60; “παρέστησε μεῖον” Is.Fr.124: expld. by Sch. Ar.Ra.810 (cf. Eratosth. and Apollod. ap. Harp.) as neut. of μείων, too light! from the cry of the φράτερες when the lamb was weighed; cf. μειαγωγέω.
μεῖον (B), ου, τό,
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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