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μέσος, η, ον,
also [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus (see. ἰμέσος, μεσακόθεν)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; Epic dialect μέσσος (also Aeolic dialect, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.12, “IG” 11(4).1064b32, and Lyric poetry, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.224, and sometimes in Trag., 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 403 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1247 (Lyric poetry), “Tr.” 635 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 1223, 1236, “fragment” 255.5)] Refs 7th c.BC+], Boeotian dialect, Cretan dialect μέττος, [[ “IG” 7.2420.20 (3rd c.BC), “GDI” 5000] Refs 3rd c.BC+] ii b 2 [[(5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, in the middle,
__I of Space, especially with Nouns, of the middle point or part, μ. σάκος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.258; ἱστίον 1.481 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐρανός zenith, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.400 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. ἀπήνης from mid chariot, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 812 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν αἰθέρι μ. in mid-air, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 416 ] Refs]; μ. μετώπῳ in the middle of the forehead, [[ “PRyl.” 128.30 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: in Prose frequently preceding the Article, κατὰ μέσον τὸν σταθμόν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.14; ἐν μ. τῇ χώρᾳ [prev. work] 2.1.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ μ. τῆς νήσου, κατὰ μ. τὴν νῆσον, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 113d, 119d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ μέσου τοῦ τμάματος at the middle point of the segment, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1.6; ἁ ἐπὶ μέσαν τὰν βάσιν ἀγομένα (i.e. εὐθεῖα) [prev. work] 12 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: sometimes following the Noun, ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ μέσῃ [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: less frequently midmost, central, of three or more objects, μ. ὁδός [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 220, 331 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὁ μ. [δάκτυλος] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 523c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μ. στῖφος the central division of the army, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέσον, τό, centre, ἡ ἐπὶ τὸ μ. φορά [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “Protrepticus” 21. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.b with a Verb, ἔχεται μ. by the middle, by the waist, proverbial from the wrestling-ring, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 387 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ach.” 571 (Lyric poetry), “Nu.” 1047, “Ra.” 469; μέσην λαβόντα [prev. author] “Ach.” 274, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.107, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.17; ὁ πέπλος ἐρράγη μ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 25.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.c with genitive, midway between, ἑνὸς καὶ πλήθους τὸ ὀλίγον μ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 303a (also μ. ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα, [prev. passage]):— 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus has μέσος ἀπὸ [τοῦ κρατῆρος] τοῦ τε πέτρου “OC” 1595. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of Time, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in phrase μέσον ἦμαρ midday, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.111, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.288, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.113; μέσαι νύκτες 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 52, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.181, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.12, etc.; θέρευς ἔτι μέσσου ἐόντος 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 502; χειμῶνος μέσου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 569.1; μ. ἡμέρα 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.5.9 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. ἡλικία middle age, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 316c: so μέσοι τὴν ἡλικίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέσος ἀκμῆς variant in [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.164. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__I.3 metaphorically, impartial, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.83, “PLond.” 1.113(1).27 (6th c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3.b inter-mediate, frequently with genitive, μ. τις γέγονα χρηματιστὴς τοῦ τε πάππου καὶ τοῦ πατρός [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330b; ψιλὸν μὲν τὸ π ¯, δασὺ δὲ τὸ φ ¯, μέσον δὲ ἀμφοῖν τὸ β ¯ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14 (see. below d); ἡ τρίτη καὶ μ. τῶν εἰρημένων δυεῖν ἁρμονιῶν [prev. work] 24; ὁ μ. χαρακτήρ [prev. work] 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; indeterminate, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 28 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὰ μ. things indifferent (neither good nor bad), [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.135, +others] Refs]; of words such as τύχη, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 626.38 ] Refs]; ζῴδια (neither lucky nor unlucky) [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 93.9; μ. δίαιτα Diocl.fragment 141, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.46. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__I.3.c Grammars, of Verbs, middle, [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1846.30, etc.] Refs]; μ. διάθεσις, σχήματα, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 226.10, 210.18 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μ. ἐνεστώς present middle, [[[prev. work] 278.25. ] Refs]
__I.3.d Grammars, of consonants, Latin mediae, i. e. β ¯ γ ¯ δ ¯, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.23 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: but also of semi-vowels, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 18c: of accent, ὀξύτητι καὶ βαρύτητι καὶ τῷ μέσῳ] Refs 5th c.BC+], i. e. the circumflex, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b33. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.1 of size, μέσοι ὀφθαλμοί, ὦτα, γλῶττα, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 492a8, 33, b31 ] Refs]; μ. μεγέθει[[ [prev. work] 496a21, “PPetr.” 1p.37 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μ. alone, of middle height, [[ PGrenf. 2.23 (a) ii 3 (2nd c.BC), “POxy.” 73.13 (1st c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 of class or quality, πάντων μέσ᾽ ἄριστα [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 335; παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 529 (Lyric poetry); μ. ἐν πόλει 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 12 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; μ. ἀνήρ a man of middle rank, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107; μ. πολίτης 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.54; τὰ μ. τῶν πολιτῶν [prev. author] 3.82 (so τῶν ἀνὰ πόλιν τὰ μ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.52)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ μ., between οἱ εὔποροι and οἱ ἄποροι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1289b31, 1295b3; οἱ μ. πολῖται [prev. work] 1296a19; τὸ μ. [prev. work] 1295b37 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. [πολιτεία[[] [prev. work] 1296a7; ὁ μ. βίος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; mediocre, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 346d; τῶν ἑταιρῶν αἱ μ. Theopomp. Comedy texts 21. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb μέσως, ἱκανόν fairly adequate, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.4S. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III μέσον, τό, midst, intervening space, mostly with Preps.,
__III.a ἐν μέσσῳ, ={ἐν μεταιχμίῳ}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.69, 90; ἐν τῷ μ. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]in the midst, [[NT.Matt.14.6 ] NT]; ἡ 'ν μέσῳ [μοῖρα] σῴζει πόλεις the middle class, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 244: without ἐν, ἔμβαλε μέσσῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.444; ἔνθορε μέσσῳ 21.233; μέσσῳ ἀμφοτέρων 3.416, 7.277; τῶνδέ τ᾽ ἐν μ. πεσεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 583; ἐν μ. λόγους ἔχειν [prev. author] “Hel.” 630; μῆκος ἐν μ. χρόνου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 735; χρόνος οὑν μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 589 (troch.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐν μ. what went between, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 583 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν μ. λόγοι the intervening words, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 1364, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 819; κλίνης ἐν μ. [prev. author] “Hec.” 1150 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν μ. ἡμῶν καὶ βασιλέως between us and him, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.3; σοφίας καὶ ἀμαθίας ἐν μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν μ. νυκτῶν at midnight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἆθλα κείμεν᾽ ἐν μέσῳ offered for competition (compare below b), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.5, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 994, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.21 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἡ τιμὴ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἔστω deposited with the court, [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.90: without ἐν, καὶ μέσῳ πάντες καὶ χωρὶς ἕκαστος] Refs 3rd c.BC+] both collectively and severally, [[ “IG” 12(5).872.27,31,38, +others (from Tenos): in _plural_, κεῖτο δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.507; ἐν μέσοισ᾽ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 1.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν μέσῳ εἶναι τοῦ συμμεῖξαι to stand in the way of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ γὰρ θάλαττα ἐν τῷ μ. is an obstacle, [[ [prev. author] “Ath.” 2.2; οὐδεὶς ἐν μέσσῳ γείτων πέλεν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.17; οὐδὲν ἂν ἦν ἐν μ. πολεμεῖν ἡμᾶς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.183 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare ἰμέσος.
__III.b ἐς μέσον, ἐς μ. ἀμφοτέρων, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus for ἐς μεταίχμιον, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.79, 6.120 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνδρὶ δὲ νικηθέντι γυναῖκ᾽ ἐς μέσσον ἔθηκε deposited her as a prize (compare above a),[[ 23.704; ἐς μ. δεικνύναι τινί τι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 42.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς μ. ἵεσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, παρελθεῖν, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 514 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.183, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agis” 9; ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέροισι.. δικάσσατε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.574 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς τὸ μ. φέρειν bring forward publicly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.139; ἐς τὸ μ. λέγεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.129 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς μ. Πέρσῃσι καταθεῖναι τὰ πρήγματα to give up the power in common to all, [[ [prev. author] 3.80; ἐς μ. τὴν ἀρχὴν τιθεὶς ἰσονομίην ὑμῖν προαγορεύω [prev. work] 142. ] Refs]
__III.c ἐκ τοῦ μέσου away, ἐκ μ. ἀνελεῖν [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.36, 18.294; [χειρόγραφον] ἦρκεν ἐκ τοῦ μ. NT.Col.2.14, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.3.15 ] NT+4th c.BC+]; also ἐκ μ. a half, ἔτη ὀκτὼ καὶ ἔνατον ἐκ μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.133 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐκ μ. κατῆστο remained in the middle, i. e. neutral [[compare (ἐκ 1.6 near the end), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.83, compare 4.118, 8.22, 73. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.d διὰ μέσου between, τὸ διὰ μ. ἔθνος [[ [prev. author] 1.104; διὰ μ. ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ μ. γενέσθαι intervene, of an event, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.20: with _genitive_, διὰ μέσου τῆς πόλεως ῥεῖ ποταμός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.23; διὰ μ. ῥεῖ τούτων ποταμός [prev. work] 1.4.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ τούτων διὰ μ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 805e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also οἱ διὰ μέσου the middle party, the moderates, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ διὰ μ. the middle class, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Time, ὁ διὰ μ. χρόνος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ διὰ μ. ξύμβασις an interim agreement, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ μέσου, as a figure of speech, use of parenthesis, [[ Herodianus Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” p.95S. ] Refs]
__III.e ἀν (ὀν) τὸ μ. in the midst, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.3, 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 1.11, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 839 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἀνὰ μέσον midway between, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 496a22, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 13, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.21, etc.; ἀνὰ μ. τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ “GDI” 2010 (Delph.), compare “PTeb.” 13.9 (2nd c.BC), +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θρὶξ ἀνὰ μέσσον [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.9; ἀνὰ μέσσα 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 167 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also ἀνὰ μέσον φέρε, ={μετρίως}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.f κατὰ μέσσον, = {ἐν μέσῳ}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.8, 16.285, etc.: with _genitive_, κὰδ δὲ μέσον τάφρου καὶ τείχεος ἷζον] Refs 8th c.BC+] between, [[ 9.87. ] Refs]
__III.2 μέσον, τό, difference, τὸ μ. πρὸς τὰς μεγίστας καὶ ἐλαχίστας the average between.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὸν τὸ μ., πολὺ τὸ μ., the difference is great, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 914 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μ. οὐδὲν τῆς ἔχθρης ἐστί there is no middle course for our enmity, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3 middle state, mean, τὸ μ. καὶ τὸ εὖ [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109b26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ποιήματα μέσα, opposed to ὀγκώδη, in the (correct) mean, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.5 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb -ως, ἀναστρέφεσθαι [[ [prev. author] “Rh.” 1.155S. ] Refs]
__III.4 in Logic, τὸ μ. the middle term of a syllogism, opposed to τὰ ἄκρα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 66a30; also ὁ μ. (i.e. ὅρος) [prev. work] 25b33. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.5 in Mathematics texts, middle terms in a proportion, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 6.16 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μέση, or μέση (μέσος) ἀνάλογον a mean proportional (straight line or number), [[[prev. work] 13, 17, 8.11, 12, +others] Refs]; μέσης εὕρεσις [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 413a19, “Metaphorical” 996b21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μέση medial, a specific kind of irrational (straight line), [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10.21, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μέσον ὀρθογώνιον (χωρίον) medial rectangle (area), [[[prev. work] 24, +others ] Refs]
__III.6 Astron., ὁ διὰ μέσων τῶν ζῳδίων κύκλος the ecliptic, [[ 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.9.3, 4, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 2.21, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 2.7: without κύκλος, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1073b20, 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.9.12; simply, ὁ διὰ μέσων 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.146 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but, ὁ μέσος [κύκλος] the equator of a rotating sphere, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1073b30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.7 μέσα, τά, ={μέζεα}, Blaes. p.191 K.
__III.7.b ={κοιλία} 1.3, [[1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 5.27.3, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.732: _sing._, 4th c.AD: Hephaestio Astrologus 1.1 (variant{τὰ μέσα} “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(2).45). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.8 Μέσον, τό, one of the law-courts at Athens, [[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc., Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 120. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.9 οὐ τοῖς μέσοις τῆς βίας χρωμένη no ordinary force,[[ Hierocl. p.15 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV μέση, ἡ, as substantive, see at {μέση}.
__V adverb μέσον, Epic dialect μέσσον, in the middle, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.167, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.300 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with genitive, between, οὐρανοῦ μ. χθονός <τε> [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 983 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.22.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in the midst of, μ. τῆς θαλάσσης [[ LXX.Exo.14.27; μ. γενεᾶς σκολιᾶς NT.Phil.2.15 ] LXX+NT]: also in plural, μέσα αἰετὸς οὐρανοῦ ποτᾶται [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 530 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V.2 regular adverb μέσως, πόλεώς τ᾽ οὐ μ. εὐδαίμονος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 873, compare “Hec.” 1113, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ μ. even in a moderate degree, even a little, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. ἔχειν πρός or περί τι to be in the mean.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1105b28, 1119a11; θερμότερον ἢ κραυρότερον ἢ μ. ἔχον 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 7.1, compare 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.53 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. βεβιωκέναι in a middle way, i. e. neither well nor ill, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113d; μ. μεθύων 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 226 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. διατιθέναι in an intermediate way, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__V.2.b Grammars, in the middle voice, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 276.21. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VI irregular comparative μεσαίτερος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 165b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative μεσαίτατος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 392b33, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 9.3, etc.; poetry μεσσότατος 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.649, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 6.373 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskritmádhyas 'middle', Latin medius, etc.)
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