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μελῶν (melon)

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

Found 115 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.63: νωδυνίαν κατέχευε μελῶν· ὁ δὲ πατρὶ ἐοικὼς

Euripides, The Trojan Women 842: οὐρανίδαισι μέλων,

Plutarch, Pelopidas 8.2: ὑφίσταται δὲ τὴν πρᾶξιν Πελοπίδας πρῶτος, εἶτα Μέλων καὶ Δαμοκλείδας καὶ Θεόπομπος, ἄνδρες οἴκων τε πρώτων καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τὰ ἄλλα μὲν φιλικῶς καὶ πιστῶς, ὑπὲρ …

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.