μελαγ-χολάω · melag-cholaō — LSJ
to be atrabilious, melancholy-mad
to be atrabilious, melancholy-mad, Ar. Av. 14, Pl. 12, 366, 903, Pl. Phdr. 268e, D. 48.56, Alex. 211, Men. Sam. 218, Gal. 1.500, etc.
The corpus record
μελαγ-χολάω
melagcholao
to be atrabilious, melancholy-mad
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Where it lives
- Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μελαγχολῶν · melancholōn Epictetus, Discourses 1.18 (DIORISIS sentence 962)
- μελαγχολῶντος · melancholōntos Epictetus, Discourses 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3855)
- μελαγχολᾷς · melancholais Plato, Phaedrus 268 (DIORISIS sentence 784)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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