μέση

mese

Appears 10 times across Homer's epics.

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Iliad 7
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Book 4 1
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4531
Book 11 1
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11252
Book 13 2
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13372
13398
Book 17 2
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17309
17313
Book 20 1
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20254
Odyssey 3
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Book 2 1
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237
Book 10 1
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10161
Book 16 1
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16336

Dictionary (LSJ)

μέση (sc. χορδή), ἡ, the

mese, i. e. the top note of the lower tetrachord in the octave, originally the middle string of the seven-stringed (or of an earlier three-stringed) lyre, Pl. R. 443d (cf. Sch.), Arist. Metaph. 1018b29, Pr. 919b20, Euc. Sect.Can. 10; variously defined, Ptol. Harm. 2.5, Cleonid. Harm. 11, Bacch. Harm. 65:—Dor. μέσσα Philol. 6.

II. Geom., mean proportional, v. μέσος III. 5.

III. in punctuation (sc. στιγμή), dot placed midway between top and bottom of line, functioning as a comma, Satyr. 6, D.T. 630.6, Sch.D.T. p.177 H.

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