middle
γραμματική ἐστιν ἐμπειρία τῶν παρὰ ποιηταῖς τε καὶ συγγραφεῦσιν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ λεγομένων → grammar is a practical knowledge of the usage of poets and writers of prose
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
adopt a middle course in one's speech: P. τὰ μεταξύ λέγειν (Dem. 202.).
a man of the middle class: P. μέσος πολίτης, ὁ.
the shrine at earth's middle point: V. μεσόμφαλον ἵδρυμα (Aesch., Choe. 1036).
the middle point of the earth: P. and V. ὀμφαλός, ὁ (Plato, Republic 427C).
substantive
in the middle of the city: P. and V. ἐν μέσῃ τῇ πόλει.
rising in the middle of dinner: P. ἐξαναστάντες μεταξύ δειπνοῦντες (Dem. 284).
break up a party in the middle: P. μεταξύ διαλῦσαι τὴν συνουσίαν (Plato, Protagoras 336E).
be at the middle, v.; P. and V. μεσοῦν.
they put the small boats in the middle: P. τὰ λεπτὰ πλοῖα… ἐντὸς ποιοῦνται (Thuc. 2, 83).
