μίγμα
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό, (μείγνυμι)
A mixture, compound, Emp. and Anaxag. ap.Arist.Ph.187a33, cf. Metaph.1012a28. 2 μίγματα, τά, of drugs, Plu.2.80a, Dsc.5.44, Apollon. ap. Gal.12.655; μ. σμύρνης καὶ ἀλόης Ev.Jo.19.39; of pigments, D.H.Is.4, Comp.21; of condiments, Plu. 2.997a; of amalgams, Zos.Alch.p.197 B. (In codd. sts. μῖγμα, for which μεῖγμα (formed like χεῦμα) shd. perh. be restored in Emp. and Anaxag. ap. Arist., but μίγμα (formed like χύμα) may be retained in later texts.)
English (Strong)
from μίγνυμι; a compound: mixture.
English (Thayer)
or (so L T) μίγμα (on the accent cf. Lipsius, Gramm. Untersuch., pp. 32,34 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 6,1e.; κρίμα, at the beginning)), μιγματος, τό (μεγνυμι), that which has been produced by mixing, a mixture: WH text ἕλιγμα, which see). (Aristotle, Plutarch, others.)
