μυελός, ὁ,
marrow, μυελὸς αὖτε σφονδυλίων ἔκπαλθ᾽ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.482, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 73bf, 91b, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.2.6, etc.: _plural_, 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 100b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; brain, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 781, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 8.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. ῥαχίτης spinal cord, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 499; μ. νωτιαῖος Diocl.fragment 141. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 fat, χηνὸς μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 109, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 marrow as good food, ἐπὶ γούνασι πατρὸς μυελὸν οἶον ἔδεσκε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.501 (but ἄλφιτα μ. ἀνδρῶν] Refs 8th c.BC+], as becoming or making marrow, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.290, compare 20.108): _metaphorically_, φάγεσθε τὸν μ. τῆς γῆς LXX.Gen.45.18. ] LXX+8th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, νεαρὸς μ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 76 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸς ἄκρον μ. ψυχῆς marrow, inmost part, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 255 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Τρινακρίας μ., of Syracuse, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.18. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 generally, soft, marrow-like meat, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 186.10. [ῡ always in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: ῠ always in Attic dialect; so also in the derivation words.]