μῖγμα. [208] 18. Mixture, blend. Lat. mistura. Cp. μῖξις [130] 25, [166] 9; and also D.H. p. 197. It is possible that Dionysius may have written μεῖγμα, as in earlier Greek: in Ep. ad Pomp. c. 2 it is to be noticed that the manuscripts give δεῖγμα, where the sense clearly calls for μεῖγμα.
μικρόκομψος. [90] 20. Affected, finical. Lat. bellulus.
μικρολογία. [266] 11. Trifling, pettiness. Lat. rerum minutarum cura. In Theophrastus’ Characters the word is used of attention to trifles on the part of the mean or parsimonious man. Cp. also Demetr. p. 293, s.v. μικρολογεῖν.
μικρόφωνος. [142] 9. Small-voiced, non-resonant. Lat. qui vocem habet exiguam, sonum exiliorem.
μίμημα. [160] 2. Imitation. Lat. imitamentum. [F.’s reading here is μηνύματα, ‘expressions which indicate’: cp. de Demosth. c. 51 init.]
μιμητικός. [158] 4, 11, [200] 11. Imitative. Lat. ad imitandum aptus. So μιμητικῶς [202] 1.
μνημεῖον. [266] 7. Memorial. Lat. monumentum.
μολοττός. [172] 1, [184] 4. Molossus. Lat. molossus. The metrical foot – – –.
μονογράμματος. [152] 20. Consisting of a single letter. Lat. qui unius est litterae.
μονόμετρος. [270] 23. Consisting of one metre. Lat. monometer. Applicable to poems, like the Iliad and the Aeneid, which are written throughout in a single metre.