μέλεα (melea)

μέλεα is an Ancient Greek form of μέλεος, meaning “wretched, vain”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 80: σὺν τᾷδε τράγου χλαίνᾳ μελέᾳ

Euripides, Medea 96a: δύστανος ἐγὼ μελέα τε πόνων,

Euripides, Hippolytus 363: τυράννου πάθεα μέλεα θρεομένας;

All forms of μέλεος (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.