Strong G3199μέλω
to concern
- Transliteration
- melō
- Pronunciation
- mel'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to be of interest to that is to concern (only third person singular present indicative used impersonally it matters): - (take) care.
Detailed definition
μέλω
[in LXX: Job.22:3 (חֵפֶץ), Tob.10:5, Wis.12:13, 1Ma.14:42-43 *;]
1. intrans., to be an object of care, be a care; commonly in third of person(s): with dative of person(s), Act.18:17; very frequently impers., 1Co.7:21; before ὅτι, Mrk.4:38, Luk.10:40; with genitive of thing(s) (as frequently in Att..), 1Co.9:9; before περί, Mat.22:16, Mrk.12:14, Jhn.10:13 12:6, 1Pe.5:7.
2. Trans., in act. and mid., to care for (not in LXX or NT).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Job.22:3 (חֵפֶץ), Tob.10:5, Wis.12:13, 1Ma.14:42-43 *;]
1. intrans., to be an object of care, be a care; commonly in third of person(s): with dative of person(s), Act.18:17; very frequently impers., 1Co.7:21; before ὅτι, Mrk.4:38, Luk.10:40; with genitive of thing(s) (as frequently in Att..), 1Co.9:9; before περί, Mat.22:16, Mrk.12:14, Jhn.10:13 12:6, 1Pe.5:7.
2. Trans., in act. and mid., to care for (not in LXX or NT).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3199 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- care5
- carest3
- careth2
- dost1
- doth1
First verses
- Matthew 22:16And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
- Mark 4:38And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
- Mark 12:14And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not?
- Luke 10:40But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
- John 10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
- John 12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
- Acts 18:17Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
- 1 Peter 5:7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
μέλω,
middle μέλομαι, used in both voices, either in neuter sense, to be an object of care or thought, or in active sense, care for, take an interest in.
A present μέλω: imperfect ἔμελον, Epic dialect μέλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.6:)]future μελήσω, Epic dialect infinitive μελησέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.51:)]aorist ἐμέλησα: perfect μεμέληκ; also Epic dialect and Lyric poetry μέμηλα, Doric dialect participle μεμᾱλώς uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.89 (for _Epic dialect_ forms of _middle_ see.below 111.2): almost always _3rd.pers.??)]singular and plural, except in present (see. below):—to be an object of care or thought, sometimes with a personal subject (not in Attic dialect Prose):
A.I πᾶσι δόλοισιν ἀνθρώποισι μέλω by all manner of wiles am I in men's thoughts, i. e. am well known to them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.20; Ἀργὼ πᾶσι μέλουσα 12.70; μελήσεις ἄφθιτον ἀνθρώποις αἰὲν ἔχων ὄνομα 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 245; Εὐθυμίᾳ μέλων εἴην 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 155; μέλει σφισὶ Καλλιόπα [prev. author] “O.” 10(11).14; ἵνα θανοῦσα νερτέροισιν μέλω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 850 (Lyric poetry); Ἔρως.. οὐρανίδαισι μέλων [prev. author] “Tr.” 842; μέλων πολλοῖσι “Anthologia Graeca” 5.121 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Diodorus Epigrammaticus); ἡ μέλουσα ἀγέλη 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 1.10a:)]perfect participle, ἀρεταῖσι μεμαλότας dear to virtue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.89 (uncertain))]; μέλεγάρ οἱ [Ὀδυσσεύς] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.6; τὸν ξεῖνον δὲ ἐῶμεν... Τηλεμάχῳ μελέμεν 18.420: but more frequently of things, μή τοι ταῦτα... μελόντων)] let not these things weigh on thy soul, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.463, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.362; μηδέ τί οἱ θάνατος μελέτω φρεσί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.152)]; σοὶ χρὴ τάδε πάντα μέλειν 'tis good these things should be a care to thee,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5.490; πόλεμος δ᾽ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει 6.492; μελήσουσιν δ᾽ ἐμοὶ ἵπποι 5.228; ᾧ τόσσα μέμηλε 2.25; οἷς ὕβρις μέμηλε κακή 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 238; τοῖσιν.. ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλα μεμήλει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.151, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.614; ὅσα φημὶ μελησέμεν Ἀργείοισι 10.51; ἔλεγε.. κομιδῆς πέρι τὴν ὥρην αὐτῷ μελήσειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19; μέλει γὰρ ἀνδρὶ.. τἄξωθεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 200; σοὶ χρὴ μέλειν ἐπιστολάς [prev. author] “Pr.” 3; οὗτος.. δμωσὶν ἂν μέλοι πόνος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 939; ἃ τοῖσιν ἀστοῖς ἔμελεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 459; τοῖσδε μελήσει γάμος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1342 (_anapaest meter_); τοῦτο ἴσασιν ἐμοὶ μεμεληκός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 20.)]
I.2 impersonal with infinitive, οὐκ ἔμελέν μοι ταῦτα μεταλλῆσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.465; so in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1250, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141, etc.; also, μοι ἐμέλησεν ὥστε εἰδέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.19)]: united with the personal construction, οὗτος μητρὶ κηδεύειν μέλει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 983.)]
I.3 less frequently with a conjunction, οὐ μέλειν οἱ ὅτι ἀποθνῄσκει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.72)]; σοὶ μελέτω ὅκως.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.13, etc.; ὡς δὲ καλῶς ἕξει.., ἐμοὶ μελήσει [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.13)]; ἐμοὶ τοῦτο μέλει, μὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1121 (Lyric poetry))]; οὐ τοσοῦτόν μοι μέλει εἰ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 21.12.)]
I.4 3rd.pers. singular is frequently used impersonal with the object in genitive, and person in dative, ᾧ μέλει μάχας to whom there is care for the battle, who careth for it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 946 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ag.” 974; ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἔλασσον Ζηνὸς ἢ μηδὲν μέλει [prev. author] “Pr.” 938; θεοῖσιν εἰ δίκης μέλει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1036; Ζηνὶ τῶν σῶν μέλει πόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 717; πάνυ μοι τυγχάνει μεμεληκὸς τοῦ ᾄσματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 339b; also μέλει μοι περί τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 780, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 502, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.150d; μεμέληκέ μοι περὶ αὐτῶν [prev. author] “Cra.” 428b: less frequently with ὑπέρ, εἴπερ ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινῇ βελτίστου δεῖ μέλειν ὑμῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.37.)]
I.5 absolutely, μηδέ σοι μελησάτω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 334)]; οἶμαι θεοῖς τοῖς κάτω μέλειν, οἳ (nisi to be read οἷς) ἠδίκηνται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.31.)]
I.6 frequently with a negative, οὐδέν μοι μέλει I care not, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 655; μή νυν μελέτω σοι μηδέν [prev. author] “Pl.” 208; τῷ δ᾽ οὐδὲν μ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 178.2)]; so τί δέ σοι μέλε; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.10.)]
A.II μέλον ἔστι periphrastic for μέλει, as τοῖσδ᾽ ἔσται μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 653, compare 1433.)]
II.2 neuter participle used absolutely, οὐδὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐμοῦ μέλον for they took no thought of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1288)]; δῆλον ὅτι οἶσθα, μέλον γέ σοι since you care about it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 24d; οὐδὲν αὐτῷ μ. τοῦ τοιούτου [prev. author] “Phdr.” 235a; μ. αὐτοῖς ἰσχυρῶς ὅπῃ τὸ μέλλον ἀποβήσοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.24; οὔτε σκοπούμεναι οὔτε μ. αὐταῖς ἄλλο ἢ χαρίζεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501b.)]
A.III middle is used by Poets and in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus like)]active, μελόμεθα, -ησόμεθα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 27)]; to be an object of care, Ἄρτεμιν ᾇ μελόμεσθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 60)]: mostly in 3rd.pers. singular, ἐμοὶ δέ κε ταῦτα μελήσεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.523)]; μή τί τοι ἡγεμόνος γε ποθὴ μελέσθω let it not weigh on thy mind, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.505)]; τἀντεῦθεν.. αὐτῷ μελέσθω Λοξίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 61; τἀνθάδ᾽ ἂν μέλοιτ᾽ ἐμοί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1436; γάμους.. σοὶ χρὴ μέλεσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 759, etc.; ἰαχὰν μελομέναν νεκροῖς [prev. work] 1302)]: rarely impersonal, σοὶ.. μελέσθω φρουρῆσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 74; μέλεταί τινί τινος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.53, Oracle texts cited in 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 24.)]
III.2 Epic dialect perfect and pluperfect passive μέμβλεται, μέμβλετο (from μέ-μλ-εται, μέ-μλ-ετο), with present and imperfect sense, ἦ νύ τοι οὐκέτι πάγχυ μετὰ φρεσὶ μέμβλετ᾽ Ἀχιλλεύς (for μέλει); [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.343)]; μέμβλετο γάρ οἱ τεῖχος (for ἔμελε)[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.516; φόνος δέ οἱ οὐκ ἐνὶ θυμῷ μέμβλετο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.12; ᾗσιν ἀοιδὴ μέμβλεται ἐν στήθεσσιν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 61: hence later _Epic dialect_ formed a)]present μέμβλομαι, 2nd pers. plural μέμβλεσθε [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.217)]; 3rd.pers. plural μέμβλονται, in active sense [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11 below), μ. πόνοισι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.77: the regular)]perfect and pluperfect (with present and imperfect sense) also occur in later Poets, μεμέληται [Refs 1st c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.436; Φοίβῳ μεμελήμεθα “Anthologia Graeca” 10.17 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus); μεμέληνται Callias Epigrammaticus “anonymous fragment” 119, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.349: 2 and 3)]pluperfect μεμέλησο, -το, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.219 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.46)]; participle μεμελημένος, α, ον, cared for, πολλοῖς μεμελημέναι ἡρωῖναι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 26.36, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 7.199 (3rd c.BC: Tymnes Epigrammaticus):)]aorist participle passive μεληθέν[Refs ([prev. work] 5.200)]; compare βέβλεσθαι.
B with an object, care for, take an interest in a thing, with genitive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in)]perfect participle, μέγα πλούτοιο μεμηλώς busied with, attending to.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.708; μέγα πτολέμοιο μεμηλώς 13.297)]: later in present, οὐκ ἔφα τις θεοὺς βροτῶν ἀξιοῦσθαι μέλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 370 (Lyric poetry); μέλειν μὲν ἡμῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 689; δεινόν σε.. τικτούσης μέλειν [prev. author] “El.” 342)]: later with dative, care for, μέλω κύρτοις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 10.10 (1st c.BC: Archias Jun.); θεοῖς μέλοντες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 7)]: absolutely, to be anxious, μέλει.. κέαρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 288, compare “Pers.” 1049 (both Lyric poetry); μελούσῃ καρδίᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 770.)]
B.2 rarely with accusative, πεντήκοντα βοῶν ἀντάξια ταῦτα μέμηλας thou hastinvented, [Refs (hymnus ad Mercurium 437)] (perhaps μέμηδας).
B.3 with _infinitive_, θεοὶ τῶν ἀδίκων μέλουσι (μέλλουσι codices _optative_) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (καὶ τῶν ὁσίων ἐπᾴειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 773 (assuming variant).)]
B.II _middle_ μέλομαι, care for, take care of, with genitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 177 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1466, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 109, “Heracl.” 354 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.967)]; τὰ λοιπά μου μέλου (where τὰ λ. is adverbial) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1138; μεμελημένοι ἀέθλων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.101: with _dative_, ἐτητυμίῃ μεμελημένος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.76; ἱππασίῃ μεμελημένον ἦτορ 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.500: with _accusative_, μέλομαι ῥόδον (probable reading for μέλπομαι) “Anacreontea” 53.2: with Preps., μέλεσθαι ἀμφί τι or τινος, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.376, 4.491; ἀμφ᾽ αἰγῶν μεμελημένοι “Anthologia Graeca” 6.221 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); ἐμέλοντο περὶ σφίσιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1172)]: with infinitive, μέλομαι.. ἀείδειν [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 65; μελέσθω λαὸς ἐκπονεῖν ἄκη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 367, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 96 (Lyric poetry))]: aorist in same sense, with genitive, τάφου μεληθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1184.)]
middle μέλομαι, used in both voices, either in neuter sense, to be an object of care or thought, or in active sense, care for, take an interest in.
A present μέλω: imperfect ἔμελον, Epic dialect μέλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.6:)]future μελήσω, Epic dialect infinitive μελησέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.51:)]aorist ἐμέλησα: perfect μεμέληκ; also Epic dialect and Lyric poetry μέμηλα, Doric dialect participle μεμᾱλώς uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.89 (for _Epic dialect_ forms of _middle_ see.below 111.2): almost always _3rd.pers.??)]singular and plural, except in present (see. below):—to be an object of care or thought, sometimes with a personal subject (not in Attic dialect Prose):
A.I πᾶσι δόλοισιν ἀνθρώποισι μέλω by all manner of wiles am I in men's thoughts, i. e. am well known to them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.20; Ἀργὼ πᾶσι μέλουσα 12.70; μελήσεις ἄφθιτον ἀνθρώποις αἰὲν ἔχων ὄνομα 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 245; Εὐθυμίᾳ μέλων εἴην 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 155; μέλει σφισὶ Καλλιόπα [prev. author] “O.” 10(11).14; ἵνα θανοῦσα νερτέροισιν μέλω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 850 (Lyric poetry); Ἔρως.. οὐρανίδαισι μέλων [prev. author] “Tr.” 842; μέλων πολλοῖσι “Anthologia Graeca” 5.121 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Diodorus Epigrammaticus); ἡ μέλουσα ἀγέλη 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 1.10a:)]perfect participle, ἀρεταῖσι μεμαλότας dear to virtue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.89 (uncertain))]; μέλεγάρ οἱ [Ὀδυσσεύς] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.6; τὸν ξεῖνον δὲ ἐῶμεν... Τηλεμάχῳ μελέμεν 18.420: but more frequently of things, μή τοι ταῦτα... μελόντων)] let not these things weigh on thy soul, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.463, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.362; μηδέ τί οἱ θάνατος μελέτω φρεσί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.152)]; σοὶ χρὴ τάδε πάντα μέλειν 'tis good these things should be a care to thee,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5.490; πόλεμος δ᾽ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει 6.492; μελήσουσιν δ᾽ ἐμοὶ ἵπποι 5.228; ᾧ τόσσα μέμηλε 2.25; οἷς ὕβρις μέμηλε κακή 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 238; τοῖσιν.. ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλα μεμήλει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.151, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.614; ὅσα φημὶ μελησέμεν Ἀργείοισι 10.51; ἔλεγε.. κομιδῆς πέρι τὴν ὥρην αὐτῷ μελήσειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19; μέλει γὰρ ἀνδρὶ.. τἄξωθεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 200; σοὶ χρὴ μέλειν ἐπιστολάς [prev. author] “Pr.” 3; οὗτος.. δμωσὶν ἂν μέλοι πόνος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 939; ἃ τοῖσιν ἀστοῖς ἔμελεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 459; τοῖσδε μελήσει γάμος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1342 (_anapaest meter_); τοῦτο ἴσασιν ἐμοὶ μεμεληκός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 20.)]
I.2 impersonal with infinitive, οὐκ ἔμελέν μοι ταῦτα μεταλλῆσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.465; so in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1250, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141, etc.; also, μοι ἐμέλησεν ὥστε εἰδέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.19)]: united with the personal construction, οὗτος μητρὶ κηδεύειν μέλει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 983.)]
I.3 less frequently with a conjunction, οὐ μέλειν οἱ ὅτι ἀποθνῄσκει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.72)]; σοὶ μελέτω ὅκως.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.13, etc.; ὡς δὲ καλῶς ἕξει.., ἐμοὶ μελήσει [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.13)]; ἐμοὶ τοῦτο μέλει, μὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1121 (Lyric poetry))]; οὐ τοσοῦτόν μοι μέλει εἰ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 21.12.)]
I.4 3rd.pers. singular is frequently used impersonal with the object in genitive, and person in dative, ᾧ μέλει μάχας to whom there is care for the battle, who careth for it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 946 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ag.” 974; ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἔλασσον Ζηνὸς ἢ μηδὲν μέλει [prev. author] “Pr.” 938; θεοῖσιν εἰ δίκης μέλει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1036; Ζηνὶ τῶν σῶν μέλει πόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 717; πάνυ μοι τυγχάνει μεμεληκὸς τοῦ ᾄσματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 339b; also μέλει μοι περί τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 780, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 502, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.150d; μεμέληκέ μοι περὶ αὐτῶν [prev. author] “Cra.” 428b: less frequently with ὑπέρ, εἴπερ ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινῇ βελτίστου δεῖ μέλειν ὑμῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.37.)]
I.5 absolutely, μηδέ σοι μελησάτω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 334)]; οἶμαι θεοῖς τοῖς κάτω μέλειν, οἳ (nisi to be read οἷς) ἠδίκηνται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.31.)]
I.6 frequently with a negative, οὐδέν μοι μέλει I care not, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 655; μή νυν μελέτω σοι μηδέν [prev. author] “Pl.” 208; τῷ δ᾽ οὐδὲν μ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 178.2)]; so τί δέ σοι μέλε; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.10.)]
A.II μέλον ἔστι periphrastic for μέλει, as τοῖσδ᾽ ἔσται μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 653, compare 1433.)]
II.2 neuter participle used absolutely, οὐδὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐμοῦ μέλον for they took no thought of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1288)]; δῆλον ὅτι οἶσθα, μέλον γέ σοι since you care about it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 24d; οὐδὲν αὐτῷ μ. τοῦ τοιούτου [prev. author] “Phdr.” 235a; μ. αὐτοῖς ἰσχυρῶς ὅπῃ τὸ μέλλον ἀποβήσοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.24; οὔτε σκοπούμεναι οὔτε μ. αὐταῖς ἄλλο ἢ χαρίζεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501b.)]
A.III middle is used by Poets and in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus like)]active, μελόμεθα, -ησόμεθα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 27)]; to be an object of care, Ἄρτεμιν ᾇ μελόμεσθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 60)]: mostly in 3rd.pers. singular, ἐμοὶ δέ κε ταῦτα μελήσεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.523)]; μή τί τοι ἡγεμόνος γε ποθὴ μελέσθω let it not weigh on thy mind, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.505)]; τἀντεῦθεν.. αὐτῷ μελέσθω Λοξίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 61; τἀνθάδ᾽ ἂν μέλοιτ᾽ ἐμοί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1436; γάμους.. σοὶ χρὴ μέλεσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 759, etc.; ἰαχὰν μελομέναν νεκροῖς [prev. work] 1302)]: rarely impersonal, σοὶ.. μελέσθω φρουρῆσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 74; μέλεταί τινί τινος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.53, Oracle texts cited in 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 24.)]
III.2 Epic dialect perfect and pluperfect passive μέμβλεται, μέμβλετο (from μέ-μλ-εται, μέ-μλ-ετο), with present and imperfect sense, ἦ νύ τοι οὐκέτι πάγχυ μετὰ φρεσὶ μέμβλετ᾽ Ἀχιλλεύς (for μέλει); [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.343)]; μέμβλετο γάρ οἱ τεῖχος (for ἔμελε)[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.516; φόνος δέ οἱ οὐκ ἐνὶ θυμῷ μέμβλετο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.12; ᾗσιν ἀοιδὴ μέμβλεται ἐν στήθεσσιν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 61: hence later _Epic dialect_ formed a)]present μέμβλομαι, 2nd pers. plural μέμβλεσθε [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.217)]; 3rd.pers. plural μέμβλονται, in active sense [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11 below), μ. πόνοισι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.77: the regular)]perfect and pluperfect (with present and imperfect sense) also occur in later Poets, μεμέληται [Refs 1st c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.436; Φοίβῳ μεμελήμεθα “Anthologia Graeca” 10.17 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus); μεμέληνται Callias Epigrammaticus “anonymous fragment” 119, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.349: 2 and 3)]pluperfect μεμέλησο, -το, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.219 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.46)]; participle μεμελημένος, α, ον, cared for, πολλοῖς μεμελημέναι ἡρωῖναι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 26.36, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 7.199 (3rd c.BC: Tymnes Epigrammaticus):)]aorist participle passive μεληθέν[Refs ([prev. work] 5.200)]; compare βέβλεσθαι.
B with an object, care for, take an interest in a thing, with genitive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in)]perfect participle, μέγα πλούτοιο μεμηλώς busied with, attending to.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.708; μέγα πτολέμοιο μεμηλώς 13.297)]: later in present, οὐκ ἔφα τις θεοὺς βροτῶν ἀξιοῦσθαι μέλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 370 (Lyric poetry); μέλειν μὲν ἡμῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 689; δεινόν σε.. τικτούσης μέλειν [prev. author] “El.” 342)]: later with dative, care for, μέλω κύρτοις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 10.10 (1st c.BC: Archias Jun.); θεοῖς μέλοντες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 7)]: absolutely, to be anxious, μέλει.. κέαρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 288, compare “Pers.” 1049 (both Lyric poetry); μελούσῃ καρδίᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 770.)]
B.2 rarely with accusative, πεντήκοντα βοῶν ἀντάξια ταῦτα μέμηλας thou hastinvented, [Refs (hymnus ad Mercurium 437)] (perhaps μέμηδας).
B.3 with _infinitive_, θεοὶ τῶν ἀδίκων μέλουσι (μέλλουσι codices _optative_) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (καὶ τῶν ὁσίων ἐπᾴειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 773 (assuming variant).)]
B.II _middle_ μέλομαι, care for, take care of, with genitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 177 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1466, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 109, “Heracl.” 354 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.967)]; τὰ λοιπά μου μέλου (where τὰ λ. is adverbial) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1138; μεμελημένοι ἀέθλων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.101: with _dative_, ἐτητυμίῃ μεμελημένος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.76; ἱππασίῃ μεμελημένον ἦτορ 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.500: with _accusative_, μέλομαι ῥόδον (probable reading for μέλπομαι) “Anacreontea” 53.2: with Preps., μέλεσθαι ἀμφί τι or τινος, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.376, 4.491; ἀμφ᾽ αἰγῶν μεμελημένοι “Anthologia Graeca” 6.221 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); ἐμέλοντο περὶ σφίσιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1172)]: with infinitive, μέλομαι.. ἀείδειν [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 65; μελέσθω λαὸς ἐκπονεῖν ἄκη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 367, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 96 (Lyric poetry))]: aorist in same sense, with genitive, τάφου μεληθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1184.)]