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μηκάς

mekas · ἡ

bleating one

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What it meant

μηκ-άς · mēk-as — LSJ

bleating one

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, AP 9.123 (<Leon.>); λευκὴ μ. Luc. DMeretr. 7.1: pl., Theoc. 1.87, 5.100.

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