μέλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εος, τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[limb]], in early writers always in pl., <span class="bibl">Il.7.131</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span> 1.47</span>, etc. (<b class="b3">κατὰ μέλος</b> is corrupt for [[κατὰ μέρος]] in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>419</span>); <b class="b3">μελέων ἔντοσθε</b> within my [[bodily]] [[frame]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>991</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>265</span> (lyr.); [[κατὰ μέλη]] = (-εα) [[limb by limb]], like [[μελεϊστί]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.119</span>; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μέρη <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>795e</span>; <b class="b3">μέλη ποιεῖν</b> [[dismember]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span>1.16</span>: later in sg., <span class="title">AP</span>9.141, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>12.3</span>,al.; ἡ κατὰ μέλος τομή <span class="bibl">Str.2.1.30</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., ἐσμὲν… ἀλλήλων μέλη <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Rom.</span>12.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Cor.</span>6.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[feature]]s, [[form]], οὐκέτ' ἐγὼ… γονέων μ. ὄψομαι <span class="title">BMus.Inscr.</span>1077 (Sudan). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">B</span> esp. [[musical]] [[member]], [[phrase]]: hence, [[song]], [[strain]], first in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Hom.</span>19.16</span> (pl.), of the [[nightingale]] (the Hom. word being [[μολπή]]), cf. <span class="bibl">Thgn.761</span>, etc.; μέλη βοῶν ἄναυλα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>699</span>; especially of [[lyric]] [[poetry]], τὸ Ἀρχιλόχου μέλος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>9.1</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν μέλεϊ ποιέειν</b> to [[write]] in [[lyric]] [[strain]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.95</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.135</span>; ἐν μέλει ἤ τινι ἄλλῳ μέτρῳ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>607d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.H. <span class="title">Comp.</span>11</span>; Ἀδμήτου μέλος <span class="bibl">Cratin.236</span>; [[μέλη]], [[τά]], [[lyric]] [[poetry]], [[choral]] [[song]]s, opp. Epic or Dramatic verse, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>379a</span>, <span class="bibl">607a</span>, al.; [<b class="b3">μ.] ἐκ τριῶν συγκείμενον, λόγου τε καὶ ἁρμονίας καὶ ῥυθμοῦ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">398d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[lyric]] [[portion]] of the Comic [[παράβασις]], Heph.Poëm.<span class="bibl">8.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[music]] to which a [[song]] is [[set]], [[tune]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1450a14</span>; opp. [[ῥυθμός]], [[μέτρον]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span> 502c</span>; opp. [[ῥυθμός]], [[ῥῆμα]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>656c</span>; <b class="b3">Κρητικόν μέλος, Καρικόν μέλος, Ἰωνικὸν μέλος</b>, <span class="bibl">Cratin.222</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.69.12</span>,<span class="bibl">14</span>: metaph., [[ἐν μέλει]] = [[properly]], [[correctly]], ἐν μ. φθέγγεσθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>227d</span>; [[παρὰ μέλος]] = [[incorrectly]], [[inopportunely]], πὰρ μ. ἔρχομαι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.69</span>; παρὰ μ. φθέγξασθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>28b</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lg.</span>696d</span>; παρὰ μέλος λαμπρύνεσθαι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1123a22</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EE</span>1233a39</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[melody]] of an [[instrument]], [[φόρμιγξ]] δ' αὖ φθέγγοιθ' ἱερὸν μ. ἠδὲ καὶ αὐλός <span class="bibl">Thgn.761</span>; αὐλῶν πάμφωνον μέλος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>12.19</span>; πηκτίδων μέλη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>241</span>: generally, [[tone]], μ. βοῆς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>756</span>. [In <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>502</span> <b class="b3">θεὸς δ' ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄεισεν</b> must be read for <b class="b3">θεὸς δ' ὑπὸ μέλος ἄεισεν</b>, and <b class="b3">Ἕλλησιν δ' ᾄδων μέλεα καὶ ἐλέγους</b> is corrupt in Epigr. ap. <span class="bibl">Paus.10.7.6</span>.]</span>