μνάομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=contr. [[μνῶμαι]], used by Hom. sometimes (only in Od.) in the contr. forms <b class="b3">μνᾶται, μνώμεθα, μνῶνται, μνάσθω, μνᾶσθαι, μνώμενος</b>; cf. impf.<br><span class="bld">A</span> μνᾶτο Hes.''Fr.''96.1: sometimes in these contr. forms lengthened again, as 2sg. pres. [[μνάᾳ]], inf. <b class="b3">μνάασθαι [μνᾱ</b>-], part. [[μνωόμενος]]; Ion. [[μνώμενος]] Hdt.1.96 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[μνεώμενος]]), 205: 3pl. impf. [[μνώοντο]], Hom. (v. infr.); imper. μνώεο A.R.1.896, al.; opt. μνώοιο Max.74; Ion. impf. μνάσκετο Od.20.290: only pres. and impf., exc. aor. μνήσατο (in signf. 11.1) Eup.413.<br><span class="bld">I</span> to [[be mindful of]], c. gen., οὐ πολέμοιο ἐμνώοντο Il.2.686; μνώοντ' ὀλοοῖο φόβοιο 11.71; μνωόμενος προτέρης ἁρπακτύος Call.''Ap.''95: abs., [[μνωομένῳ]] [[when I remember him]], Od.4.106, cf. 15.400; also, [[turn one's mind]] to a thing, φύγαδε μνώοντο ἕκαστος Il.16.697.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[woo for one's bride]], [[court]] (not in Il.), c. acc., <b class="b3">μήτ' αὐτὸν κτείνειν μήτε μνάασθαι ἄκοιτιν</b>, of [[Aegisthus]], Od. 1.39; τὴν πάντες μνώοντο 11.287: with no acc. expressed, 16.77, 19.529.<br><span class="bld">2</span> after Hom., [[sue for]], [[solicit]] a [[favour]], [[office]], etc., μνώμενος ἀρχήν Hdt.1.96; <b class="b3">μνώμενον βασιληίην</b> ib.205; φιλοτιμίαν μνώμενοι ἢ στάσιν Pi.''Fr.''210; εὔνοιαν ἑαυτῷ παρὰ τῶν στρατιωτῶν μ. Hdn.7.9.11; πᾶσαν ἑαυτῷ πόλιν πατρίδα μ. Hld.3.14.—Ep., Ion., and late Prose; once in Com. (v. supr.). (For signf. ''1'' cf. [[μιμνήσκω]]; in signf. ''ΙΙ'' perhaps from μνᾱ- = βνᾱ-, i.e. gu̯nā-, cf. [[γυνή]].)