[Meaning] something beloved.
*me/ghron: to\ e)pe/raston.
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword adjective, here in the neuter singular, is not otherwise attested, and is possibly a mistake for
megh/raton or
megh/riton. The phrase
megh/rita te/kna qea/wn "much contended-for children of goddesses" (Hesiod,
Theogony 240) has the textual variant
megh/rata te/kna qea/wn "most lovable children of goddesses" (LSJ s.v.
megh/ritos, from
e)rato/s); and
megh/ratos is glossed in the
Etymologicum Magnum and ps.-
Zonaras with the same word,
mega/lws e)pe/rasta. (Compare also, here, under
alpha 467,
alpha 2808,
epsilon 2199,
epsilon 2987,
iota 353.)
The word also turns up in the
Vision of Dorotheus (3-4 CE) 307, though apparently as an aorist imperative of
megai/rw (cf.
mu 396).
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