[Meaning] half-grey,[1] old yet sprightly.
*mesa/gkulos: mesaipo/lios, w)moge/rwn.
Same entry (though see n. 1 below) in the
Synagoge,
Photius'
Lexicon (mu290 Theodoridis), and the
Lexica Segueriana. The first glossing word,
mesaipo/lios, is itself glossed in
mu 648.
The neuter noun
mesa/gkulon, literally "mid-loop", refers to a javelin with a thong (loop) used to hurl it, and is mentioned in tragedy, comedy and historiography (see LSJ s.v., and
alpha 251). The present headword
mesa/gkulos, evidently related to the adjective
a)gku/los (cf.
alpha 253,
alpha 254,
alpha 255), does not occur outside lexica.
In
Hesychius mu892-893,
mesa/gkula (sic) is directly followed by
mesaipo/lios. As Bachmann and Nauck noted, lexicographers after him appear to have conflated the two entries.
[1] Theodoridis on
Photius s.v. prints this as two words,
mesos polios.
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