μηκάς
From LSJ
Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous
English (LSJ)
άδος, ἡ,
A bleating one, in Hom. always of goats, in pl., μ. αἶγες Il.11.383, Od.9.124, 244, al., cf. Antiph. 1,52.8; also μ. ἄρνες E.Cyc.189. II as Subst., = αἴξ, S.Fr.509, AP9.123 (<Leon.>); λευκὴ μ. Luc.D DMeretr.7.1: pl., Theoc.1.87,5.100.
