μεταμώνιος
Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.
English (LSJ)
ον, poet. Adj.
A vain, idle, μ. νήματα vainly-woven, Od.2.98; μεταμώνια βάζεις talkest idly, 18.332; τὰ δὲ πάντα θεοὶ μ. θεῖεν may the gods give all that to the winds, Il.4.363; ψεύδη μ. Pi.O.12.6; μ. θηρεύω Id.P.3.23; τὰ δ' οὐκ ἄρ' ἔμελλε θεὸς μ. θήσειν Theoc.22.181. —Used by Hom. only in neut. pl.: the etym. is dub., cf. μωνιή, μωνιόν; but later Poets apptly. connected the word with ἄνεμος (as if for μετανεμώνιος) ; κονία μεταμώνιος ἀέρθη borne by the wind, on high, Simon.16; ἐς κόρακας βαδιεῖ μεταμώνιος Ar.Pax117, ubi v. Sch.:— μεταμώλιος is v.l. in several passages; cf. ἀνεμώλιος.
