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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[middle]], in the [[middle]], Lat. [[medius]], Hom., etc.; [[μέσον]] [[σάκος]] the [[middle]] or [[centre]] of the [[shield]], Il.; ἐν αἰθέρι μέσῳ in mid air, Soph.; with the Art. [[following]], διὰ [[μέσης]] τῆς πόλεως, ἐν μ. τῇ χώρᾳ Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with a Verb, ἔχεται [[μέσος]] by the [[middle]], by the [[waist]], [[proverb]]. from the [[wrestling]]-[[ring]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> μ. [[δικαστής]] = [[μεσίτης]], a [[judge]] [[between]] two, an [[umpire]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> ὁ [[μέσος]] (sc. δάκτυλοσ) Plat.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> of [[Time]], [[μέσον]] [[ἦμαρ]] mid- day, Hom.; μέσαι νύκτες Hdt.; also, [[μέσον]] τῆς ἡμέρας Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[middling]], [[moderate]], [[μέσος]] [[ἀνήρ]] a man of [[middle]] [[rank]], Hdt.; μ. [[πολίτης]] Thuc.; also οἱ διὰ μέσου the [[moderate]] or [[neutral]] [[party]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[middling]], i. e. [[middling]] [[good]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[μέσον]] epic μέσσον, ου, as Subst. the [[middle]], the [[space]] [[between]], ἐν μέσσῳ, for ἐν μεταιχμίῳ, Il.; or without ἐν, ἔνθορε μέσσῳ he leaped [[into]] the [[middle]], Il.; οἱ ἐν μ. λόγοι the [[intervening]] words, Soph.; τὰ ἐν μ. [[what]] went [[between]], Soph.; ἐν μ. [[ἡμῶν]] καὶ βασιλέως [[between]] us and him, Xen.; ἐν μ. νυκτῶν at mid [[night]], Xen.; ἆθλα κείμενα ἐν μέσῳ prizes set up for all to [[contend]] for, Dem.;—so in pl., κεῖτο δ' ἄρ' ἐν μέσσοισι Il.<br />b. ἐς [[μέσον]], ἐς μ. ἀμφοτέρων Hom.; ἐς μ. τιθέναι τισί τι to set a [[prize]] [[before]] all, for all to [[contest]], Lat. in [[medio]] ponere, Il.; ἐς τὸ μ. τιθέναι to [[propose]], [[bring]] [[forward]] in [[public]], Hdt.; ἐς τὸ μ. λέγειν to [[speak]] [[before]] all, Hdt.; ἐς μ. Πέρσῃσι [[καταθεῖναι]] τὰ πρήγματα to [[give]] up the [[power]] in [[common]] to all, Hdt.<br />c. ἐκ τοῦ μέσου καθέζεσθαι to [[keep]] [[clear]] of a [[contest]], i. e. [[remain]] [[neutral]], Hdt.<br />d. διὰ μέσου = [[μεταξύ]], [[between]], Hdt., Thuc.; and of [[Time]], [[meanwhile]],Hdt., Thuc.<br />e. ἀνὰ [[μέσον]] [[midway]] [[between]], Theocr.<br />f. κατὰ μέσσον, = ἐν μέσῳ, Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> τὸ [[μέσον]], also, the [[difference]], [[average]], Hdt., Thuc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[middle]] [[state]] or [[mean]], Lat. [[mediocritas]], Arist.; παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ [[κράτος]] θεὸς ὤπασεν Aesch.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> adv. [[μέσον]], epic μέσσον, in the [[middle]], Hom.: c. gen. [[between]], οὐρανοῦ μ. χθονός τε Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[attic]] [[μέσως]], [[moderately]], Eur.; καὶ [[μέσως]] [[even]] a [[little]], Thuc.; [[μέσως]] βεβιωκέναι in a [[middle]] way, i. e. [[neither]] well nor ill, Plat.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> irreg. comp. [[μεσαίτερος]] (cf. μεσαῖοσ) Plat.; Sup. [[μεσαίτατος]] Hdt., etc.

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