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|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">care for, be anxious about, meditate upon</b>, <b class="b3">ἔργον μεριμνῶν ποῖον</b> . . ; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span> 1124</span>; esp. of philosophers, τὰ &lt;μὲν ἀ&gt;φανῆ μ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>672</span>; οἱ λεπτῶς μεριμνῶντες <span class="title">Lyr.Adesp.</span>135, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.7.6</span>; <b class="b3">μ. περὶ τῆς τῶν πάντων φύσεως</b> ib.<span class="bibl">1.1.14</span>; <b class="b3">πολλὰ μ</b>. <b class="b2">to be cumbered with</b> many <b class="b2">cares</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>8.7.12</span>; τοῖς μεριμνῶσίν τε καὶ λυπουμένοις <span class="bibl">Apollod.Com.3</span>; μηθὲν τὴν ἀλήθειαν μεριμνᾶν Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.135 S., cf. 2.143 S.; μεριμνήσω ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁμαρτίας μου <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ps.</span>37(38).18</span>; μ. εἰς τὴν αὔριον <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>6.34</span>: c.inf., <b class="b2">to be careful</b> to do, ὁ μεριμνήσας τὰ δίκαια λέγειν <span class="bibl">D.21.192</span>: with relat. clause, πολλὰ μ. ὅπως μὴ λάθῃς <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>3.5.23</span>; μεριμνῶ πῶς κλαύσω <span class="title">AP</span>9.148; μὴ μεριμνᾶτε τῇ ψυχῇ τί φάγητε <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>6.25</span>:—Pass., <b class="b2">to be treated with anxious care</b>, AP10.52 (Pall.); τράπεζαι πολυτελῶς μεμεριμνημέναι <span class="bibl">Ath.14.641c</span>; <b class="b3">ἔννοια, ἀμφισβήτησις μ</b>., <span class="bibl">Just.<span class="title">Nov.</span>22.26</span> <span class="title">Intr.</span>, 44.1.3.</span>