μέλαθρον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Ep. gen. sg. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> μελαθρόφιν <span class="bibl">Od.8.279</span>:—[[roof-tree]], [[ridgepole]], <b class="b3">μελαθρόφιν ἐξεκέχυντο</b> l.c., cf. <span class="bibl">11.278</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ven.</span>173</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).161<span class="title">A</span> 105 (Delos, iii B. C.), 199<span class="title">A</span>113 (ibid., pl.); ἐπὶ προὔχοντι μελάθρῳ <span class="bibl">Od. 19.544</span>: generally, [[beam]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ki.</span>7.9(20)</span>; τὰ μ. τῶν θυρίδων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span> 233.5</span> (ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[roof]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.414</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.18.150</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[house]], κυπαρίσσινον μ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>5.40</span>; <b class="b3">οὐράνιον μ</b>., of heaven, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1101</span> (lyr.): mostly in pl., Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>19.2, etc.; <b class="b3">μ. ἐν βασιλείοις</b> in the king's [[halls]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>343</span> (anap.), etc.; ἐς δόμων μ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>957</span>; of a cave used as a dwelling, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>147</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>491</span> (both anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[lair]] of an animal, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>2.307</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[cage]], ib.<span class="bibl">4.107</span>,<span class="bibl">423</span>. (Acc. to <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>576.16</span> from [[μελαίνω]], cf. [[καπνοδόκη]]; it is doubtful whether [[κμέλεθρον]] is cogn.)</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[μέλαθρον]], ου, τό,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[ceiling]] of a [[room]], or ([[rather]]) the [[main]] [[beam]] [[which]] bears the [[ceiling]], Od.; in Od. 19. 544, the end of [[this]] [[beam]] [[outside]] the [[house]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], a [[roof]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[house]], [[hall]], Pind., Eur.; [[mostly]] in pl., like Lat. tecta, Trag. [deriv. uncertain]