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μειλίσσω , fut. -ξω A.R.4.416: Ep. aor. Med.
A.“μειλίξατο” Id.1.650: —make mild, soothe, treat kindly, τινα Theoc.16.28; esp. appease, propitiate: rarely c. gen., πυρὸς μειλισσέμεν (like πυρὸς χαρίζεσθαι) to appease [the dead] by fire, i.e. funeral rites, Il.7.410; of rivers, λιπαροῖς χεύμασι γαίας . . μειλίσσοντες οὖδας gladdening the soil with rich streams, A.Supp.1029 (lyr.); “ὀργὰς μ.” E.Hel.1339 (lyr.); μ. τινὰ λοιβαῖς, χύτλοις, Lyc.542, A.R.4.708.
2. implore, ἐγὼ κεῖνόν γε τεὰς ἐς χεῖρας ἱκέσθαι μειλίξω ib.416.
II. Pass., “μειλίσσομαι” to be soothed, grow calm, h. Cer. 290; to be subdued, “πυρὸς μειλίσσετ᾽ ἀϋτμή” A.R.3.531.
III. Med., use soothing words, μηδέ τί μ᾽ αἰδόμενος μειλίσσεο μηδ᾽ ἐλεαίρων extenuate not aught from respect or pity, Od. 3.96.
2. propitiate, “Κύπριν ἀοιδῇσιν θυέεσσί τε” A.R.1.860; “συκοφάντας ἀπομαγδαλιᾷ” Philostr.VA7.23; soften, subdue, “ἔθνη . . καθάπερ ζῷα τιθασεύων καὶ μ.” Plu.2.330b.
3. implore, A.R.3.985, 4.1012.
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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