πέπων

1. of fruit, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow , Lat. mitis, (Herdotus Historicus), etc.

2. metaphorically in vocative, mostly as a term of endearment, kind, gentle , ὦ πέπον my good friend , (Iliad by Homer); κριὲ πέπον my pet ram, (Odyssey by Homer);—; in bad sense, soft, weak , (Iliad by Homer); ὦ πέπονες ye weaklings , (Iliad by Homer): —; μόχθος πέπων softened pain, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.: with dative, ἐχθροῖς π. gentle to one's foes, (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)