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