μεσόω,
(μέσος) to be in or at the middle, τόδ᾽ ἴσθι, μηδέπω μεσοῦν κακόν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 435; ἐν ἀρχῇ πῆμα κοὐδέπω μεσσῖ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 60; ἐπειδὴ τὸ δρᾶμα ἤδη μεσοίη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 924 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of Time, μεσοῦσα ἡμέρη midday, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θέρους μεσοῦντος in midssummer, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.57; ἐν [ἐνιαυτῷ] μεσοῦντι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς ἥλιον μεσοῦντα to wards midday, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.4.8; μεσούντων τῶν ζῳδίων 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 2.3.19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive, to be in the middle of, τῆς ἀναβάσιος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181; τὰ δὲ καὶ μεσοῦν τούτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 618b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεσοῦντα τῆς ἀρχῆς in the middle of his time of office, [[ Scholia 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: and with participle, μεσοῦν δειπνοῦντας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 175c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]