μέλεσι (melesi)

μέλεσι is an Ancient Greek form of μέλος, meaning “limb; song”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Trojan Women 352: τοῖς τῆσδε μέλεσι, Τρῳάδες, γαμηλίοις.

Plato, Symposium 187: … ους καταχρῆσθαι ῥυθμῷ τε καὶ ἁρμονίᾳ ἢ ποιοῦντα, ὃ δὴ μελοποιίαν καλοῦσιν, ἢ χρώμενον ὀρθῶς τοῖς πεποιημένοις μέλεσί τε καὶ μέτροις, ὃ δὴ παιδεία ἐκλήθη, ἐνταῦθα δὴ καὶ χαλεπὸν καὶ ἀγαθοῦ δημιουργοῦ δεῖ. πάλιν γὰρ ἥκει ὁ αὐτὸς …

All forms of μέλος (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.