[Meaning] to take care of.[1]
Herodotus [writes] "he left behind the sick men, [ordering] the cities both to care for them and to nourish them."[2]
*meledai/nein: e)pimelei=sqai. *(hro/dotos: tou\s nose/ontas kate/lipen e)n th=|si po/lisi meledai/nein te kai\ tre/fein.
[1] cf. generally
mu 473,
mu 474,
mu 475.
[2] The quotation from
Herodotus (8.115.3) has been abbreviated, with the participle
e)pita/sswn, "ordering," being left out. The subject of the sentence is Xerxes, who is leaving behind his sick soldiers on his march back to the Hellespont. See web address 1 for the full passage. The same passage is cited by LSJ in their definition of the headword,
meledai/nein (web address 2).
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