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μέλι^ , τό, gen. ι^τος, etc.; dat.
A.“μέλι” Philox.3.17; gen. pl. “μελίτων” Emp.128.7 (nisi leg. μελιτῶν, cf. μελιτόν):—honey, Od.20.69, etc.; “μ. χλωρόν” Il.11.631, Od.10.234, Xenoph.38.1; “ξανθόν” Simon.47; “παμφαές” A. Pers.612; “τὸ μέλι τἀττικόν” Ar. Pax252, cf. Men.708; various kinds, Thphr. Fr.190; said to be made from the palm (φοῖνιξ), Hdt.1.193, cf.4.194; “μ. θανάτου σύμβολον” Porph. Antr.18.
2. in comparisons, of anything sweet, esp. of eloquence, “μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή” Il.1.249, cf. Pi. O.10 (11).98; “Σοφοκλέους τοῦ μέλιτι κεχριμένου” Ar. Fr.581; “ὕπνος γλυκίων μέλιτος” Mosch.2.3; “ἡ τῶν ἀνδρῶν [χολή] ἐστι πρὸς ἐκείνην μέλι” Alex.146.6: prov. μήτε μοι μ. μήτε μέλισσα, of those who refuse to take 'the rough with the smooth', Sapph.113.
II. sweet gum collected from certain trees, manna, Arist. Mir.831b23; “τὸ ὕον μ.” Polyaen.4.3.32; μ. ἄγριον, μαινόμενον, D.S.19.94, Str.12.3.18. (Cf. Goth. milip, Lat. mel.）
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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