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melos1

melos1 · n

a tune, air, strain, song, lay

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Where it lives

Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mĕlos — Lewis & Short

mĕlos, i, n. (Greek

plur. mele, Lucr. 2, 412.—In

I masc.: quosdam melos, Cato ap. Non. 213, 17; so Pac. and Varr. ib.), = me/los, a tune, air, strain, song, lay (ante-class. and poet.): suave summum melos, Naev. ap. Non. 213, 11: quosdam melos, Cato ap. Non. 77, 7: Silvani melo Consimilis cantus, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89: longum, Hor. C. 3, 4, 2: Pegaseium, Pers. prol. —Greek plur.: cui brevia mela modifica recino, Aus. Parent. 27.

2. Mēlos — Lewis & Short

Mēlos, i, f., = *mh=los,

I an island in the Ægean Sea, one of the Cyclades, now Milo, Mel. 2, 7, 11; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 70; Paul. ex Fest. p. 124 Müll.—Hence,

I Mēlĭus, a, um, adj., of Melos: Diagoras Melius, Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 2.—

II Mēlĭnus, a, um, v. 4. Melinus.

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