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μέγʼ (men)

μέγʼ is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 195 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.383: μήτι παντοίῃ μέγʼ ἀναιδέας ἐξελάσαντες

Euripides, Alcestis 742: ὦ γενναία καὶ μέγ’ ἀρίστη,

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 14: … εὺς ἀμείνων ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ Ἕκτορα μᾶλλον ἢ Θερσίτην καθῄρει, καὶ εἰ πρόσθε μὲν ἔφευγεν ἐσθλός τις, ἐδίωκε δέ μιν μέγ' ἀμείνων. εἶτ' ἐπῆγεν ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ τι ἐγκώμιον, καὶ ὡς ἄξιος εἴη συγγράψαι τὰς πράξεις οὕτω λαμπρὰς οὔσας. ἤδη δ …

All forms of μέγας (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.