Edit: The post belonged in another thread and was not a question.
What is happening with the word order here?
I don’t know the gender of the subject, but assuming female:
She kissed a honeyed kiss with her lips that were soft.
Or
She kissed a kiss that was honeyed with her lips that were soft.
Although now that I look at the LSJ: “show outward signs of love, esp. kiss (not in Hom.), φ. τοῖσι στόμασι kiss on the mouth”
So I might be wrong about the instrumental dative, in which case: “on the lips that were soft.”
Female.
In 2.14, he had been struck (repeatedly).
τὸν Δάφνιν ἔπαιον
and then in 2.18 Chloe washed off his bloodied nose at the spring, fed him and surprisingly kissed him.
Not so very surprisingly?
“Most surprisingly”, if the adverb of intensity is not omitted in summary.
τὸ δὲ μάλιστα ἀνακτησάμενον αὐτόν, φίλημα ἐφίλησε μελιτῶδες ἁπαλοῖς τοῖς χείλεσι.
I don’t think that’s what μάλιστα ἀνακτησάμενον αὐτόν means.
That was an “autobiographical slip in reading”, (if such a species of animal has been catalogued???)… Much to the consternation of those who love or befriend me, I freak out from “surprise” or unexpected touching, and especially kissing - I read it as ἀγανακτέω, picturing that she snuck a gentle kiss while tending to his wounds. 