μείων: Difference between revisions

|Definition=so in Dor., <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>9.48, al., <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>323 <span class="title">B</span>9 (Delph., iv B. C.), <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>1.114,al., <span class="bibl">Archyt.1</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">Epich.62</span> (μηονος cod., and so in Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.62, etc.), and Arc., <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).3.15, 18 (Tegea): neut. pl. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> μείονα <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>690</span>, but μείω <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.102b</span>: masc. pl. μείους <span class="bibl">Xenoph.3.4</span>, etc.: dat. pl. μειόνοις <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).333 (Locr.): —irreg. Comp. of [[ὀλίγος]] or [[μικρός]], [[lesser]], [[less]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.35</span>,al., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span> 519</span>, <span class="bibl">B.1.63</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὸ μ. κρεισσόνων κρατύνει</b>; <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>596</span>(lyr.), cf.<span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">VM</span>8</span> (v.l., cf. Erot.), <span class="title">Vict.</span>1.5,al. (not in other works of Hp.), freq. in <span class="bibl">X., <span class="title">Cyr.</span>5.4.48</span>,al., not in good Att. Prose or Com., nor in Hdt.; [[younger]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>374</span>: neut. [[μεῖον]] as Adv., [[less]], μ. ἰσχύσειν Διός <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 510</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>707</span>: regul. Adv., <b class="b3">μειόνως ἔχειν</b> to be [[of less value]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span> 104</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>19.2.2</span>:—also μειότερος, α, ον, <span class="bibl">A.R.2.368</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.43</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>14.41, <span class="bibl">Man.2.147</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>14.2064. ([[μεί]]-yων, cf. [[μινύθω]], Lat. [[minuo]], [[minus]].) </span>