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μέσοι (mesoi)

μέσοι is an Ancient Greek form of μέσος, meaning “middle, in the middle”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of μεσόω, “at the middle”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93.4: εἶχον δὲ δεξιὸν μὲν κέρας Θηβαῖοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμοροι αὐτοῖς· μέσοι δὲ Ἁλιάρτιοι καὶ Κορωναῖοι καὶ Κωπαιῆς καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι οἱ περὶ τὴν λίμνην· τὸ δὲ εὐώνυμον εἶχον Θεσπιῆς καὶ Τανα …

Euripides, Medea 60: ζηλῶ σ’· ἐν ἀρχῇ πῆμα κοὐδέπω μεσοῖ.

All forms of μέσος (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.