μέλλημα

ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea

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Full diacritics: μέλλημα	Medium diacritics: μέλλημα	Low diacritics: μέλλημα	Capitals: ΜΕΛΛΗΜΑ
Transliteration A: méllēma	Transliteration B: mellēma	Transliteration C: mellima	Beta Code: me/llhma

English (LSJ)

ατος, τό,

A delay, in pl., E.IA818, Aeschin.3.72, Plu.Nic. 21.

[Seite 125] τό, Zögerung, Aufschub; οὐδὲ ἀναμένειν τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων μελλήματα, Aesch. 3, 72; Plut. Nic. 21 u. a. Sp.