πέπων, ον,
genitive ονος: comparative and superlative πεπαίτερος, -τατος:—properly of fruit, cooked by the sun, ripe, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 34, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 181; ἄπιος 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 33.5 (_superlative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ὠμός, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 260, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 19.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of wine, mellow, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 579, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πέπονα ποιεῖν τινα, by beating him, [[ “Comica Adespota” 125. ] Refs]
__b of abscesses, ripe, ready to suppurate, [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 30. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 σίκυος π. a kind of gourd or melon, not eaten till quite ripe (whereas the σίκυος was eaten unripe), [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.17, “Vict.” 2.55, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 64.4, 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 36, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 926b4, Diocl.fragment 120 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πέπων alone distinguished from σίκυος, τοὺς σικύους καὶ τοὺς πέπονας [[ LXX.Num.11.5, compare 4th c.BC: Speusippus Philosophus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.68e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Phanias Historicus 34, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.135, etc.: proverbial, μαλθακώτερος πέπονος σικύου 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 72; ἀνὴρ ἐκεῖνος ἦν πεπαίτερος μόρων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 264; π. ἀπίοιο 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.120. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, as always in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (more frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” than in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), and in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], in addressing a person, mostly as a term of endearment or familiarity, kind, gentle, πέπον Καπανηϊάδη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.109; Κύκνε πέπον 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 350 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὦ πέπον good brother!, gentle sir!, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.55, 9.252, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 544, 560, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κριὲ πέπον my pet ram (says Polyphemus), [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.447: _comparative_, of a ἑταίρα, 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 4.9 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in bad sense, ὦ πέπονες ye weaklings! [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.235. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]