μελέτ-η, ἡ,
care, attention, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 412, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus [284]: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 110.2: with _genitive_ objecti, μ. πλεόνων] Refs 8th c.BC+] care for many things, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 380; μελέτην τινὸς ἐχέμεν, ={μελετᾶν},{ἐπιμελεῖσθαι}, [prev. work] 457 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔργων ἐκ πολλοῦ μ. long-continued attention to action, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive subjecti, care taken by one, θεῶν μελέτῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 196 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a trainer, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.191: _absolutely_, μελέτῃ κατατρύχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1099 (_anapaest meter_): _plural_, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 131.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Medicine texts, treatment, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 31, 35 (_plural_), “Art.” 50. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II practice, exercise, ὀξεῖα μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.37; ἔχων μ. [prev. author] “N.” 6.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ δι᾽ ὀλίγου μ. their short practice, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.85 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόνων μ. painful exercises, of the Spartan discipline,[[ [prev. work] 39; μάθησις καὶ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 153b; μ. θανάτου [prev. author] “Phd.” 81a; ἡ ἐγκύκλιος τῶν προπαιδευμάτων μ. 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.157. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b in a military sense, exercise, drill, μετὰ κινδύνων τὰς μελέτας ποιεῖσθαι to go through one's exercises in actual war, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18; ταῖς τῶν πολεμικῶν μ. [prev. author] 2.39; μ. ἐν ὅπλοις ποιεῖσθαι “IG” 22.1028.19, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]