The corpus record

μελάνδετος

melandetos

bound, mounted with black, with iron scabbard

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μελᾰν-δετος · melan-detos — LSJ

bound, mounted with black, with iron scabbard, iron-rimmed

bound or mounted with black, φάσγανα καλὰ μελάνδετα Il. 15.713; μ. ξίφος with iron scabbard, E. Ph. 1091; σάκος μ. iron-rimmed shield, A. Th. 43; but μελάνδετον φόνῳ ξίφος E. Or. 821 (lyr.).

In the wild

μελάνδετον · melandeton Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 42–48
μελάνδετον · melandeton Euripides, Orestes 1 (DIORISIS sentence 595)
μελάνδετον · melandeton Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos.1090 (DIORISIS sentence 654)
μελάνδετον · melandeton Shield of Heracles 221
μελάνδετα · melandeta Iliad 15.713

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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