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  "headword": "μέλισσα",
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      "definition": "",
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          "definition": "<i>bee,</i> Od. 13.106, etc.; of <i>wild bees,</i> that live in rocks, Il. 2.87, cf. 12.167; of <i>honey-bees,</i> that live in hives, Hes. Th. 594; σμῆνος μελισσᾶν A. Pers. 128 (lyr.), cf. Hdt. 4.194, 5.10:—Phrases: ὥσπερ μέλιττα τὸ κέντρον ἐγκαταλιπών Pl. Phd. 91c; ὄνος ἐν μελίτταις ‘a hornets’ nest’, Crates Com. 36; cf. μέλι I.2 fin.",
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              "data": {
                "quote": "σμῆνος μελισσᾶν",
                "ref": "A. Pers. 128",
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            },
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              "data": {
                "quote": "ὥσπερ μέλιττα τὸ κέντρον ἐγκαταλιπών",
                "ref": "Pl. Phd. 91c",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg004.perseus-grc2:91c"
              }
            }
          ],
          "children": [
            {
              "label": "II",
              "definition": "μέλισσα was applied",
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              "children": [
                {
                  "label": "1",
                  "definition": "<i>poets,</i> from their culling the beauties of nature, ἔνθεν ὡσπερεὶ μ. Φρύνιχος . . μελέων ἀπεβόσκετο καρπόν Ar. Av. 748; μ. Μούσης Id. Ec. 974 (lyr.); μ. Ἤρινναν Μουσῶν ἄνθεα δρεπτομέναν AP 7.13 ( Leon. or Mel.); esp. of Sophocles, Sch. Ar. V. 460.",
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                        "quote": "ἔνθεν ὡσπερεὶ μ. Φρύνιχος . . μελέων ἀπεβόσκετο καρπόν",
                        "ref": "Ar. Av. 748",
                        "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg006.perseus-grc2:748"
                      }
                    },
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "μ. Μούσης",
                        "ref": "Id. Ec. 974",
                        "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg010.perseus-grc2:974"
                      }
                    },
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "μ. Ἤρινναν Μουσῶν ἄνθεα δρεπτομέναν",
                        "ref": "AP 7.13",
                        "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.perseus-grc2:7.13"
                      }
                    }
                  ],
                  "children": []
                },
                {
                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>priestesses</i> of Delphi, Pi. P. 4.60; of Demeter and Artemis, Sch. Pi. l.c., Porph. Antr. 18; of Cybele, Did. ap. Lact. Inst. 1.22.",
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                },
                {
                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "<i>any pure, chaste being,</i> of souls coming to birth, Porph. Antr. 19; of the Moon, ib. 18.",
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                  "citations": [],
                  "children": []
                }
              ]
            },
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              "label": "III",
              "definition": "<i>honey,</i> ὕδατος, μελίσσης, μηδὲ προσφέρειν μέθυ S. OC 481: metaph., γλώσσης μελίσσῃ καταρρυηκέναι Id. Fr. 155; of poetry, AP 9.505.6; ἑσμὸς μελίσσης appears to be corrupt in Epin. 1.7.",
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                  "data": {
                    "quote": "μελίσσης, μηδὲ προσφέρειν μέθυ",
                    "ref": "S. OC 481",
                    "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg007.perseus-grc2:481"
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                },
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                  "data": {
                    "quote": "γλώσσης μελίσσῃ καταρρυηκέναι",
                    "ref": "Id. Fr. 155",
                    "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg008.perseus-grc2:155"
                  }
                }
              ],
              "children": []
            },
            {
              "label": "IV",
              "definition": "Hsch.",
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              "children": []
            }
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