A.attendant, guardian, τῶν οἰκίων μ. house-steward, Hdt.3.61; ὁ μ. τῶν θηρίων the keeper of the crocodiles, Id.2.65; μ. τῆς τροφῆς one who provides their food, ibid., cf. 7.31; μ. τῶν χρημάτων ib.38; “μελεδωνοὶ τῶν ἱερῶν” D.H.1.67; “τοῦ τείχους” Ael.NA 3.26; μ. λῃστῶν agents of pirates, Philostr.VA3.24; title of public officials in Samos, SIG976.63 (ii B.C.): metaph., of a learned man, “πάσης πολύβυβλον ἀφ᾽ ἱστορίης μ.” Ath.Mitt.11.428 (Notium).
μελεδ-ωνός , ὁ and ἡ,
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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