blame
τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς → why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye | and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye | why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. μέμψις, ἡ, ψόγος, ὁ, αἰτία, ἡ, P. ἐπιτίμησις, ἡ, Ar. and V. μομφή, ἡ.
lay blame on: P. and V. αἰτίαν ἀναφέρειν (dat. or εἰς, acc.), P. ψόγον ἐπιφέρειν (dat.); see lay on, under lay.
Loxias will take the blame upon himself: Λοξίας γὰρ αἰτίαν εἰς αὑτὸν οἴσει (Eur., Electra 1226).
verb transitive
P. and V. μέμφεσθαι; (acc. or dat.), ψέγειν, ἐπαιτιᾶσθαι, αἰτιᾶσθαι, P. ἐπιτιμᾶν, (dat. of person, acc. of thing, or sometimes dat., vid. Dem. 246, 1231), κακίζειν, δι' αἰτίας ἔχειν, καταμέμφεσθαι, Ar. and V. μωμᾶσθαι.
chide: V. ἐνίπτειν; (Aesch., Agamemnon 590).
be blamed: P. and V. ψόγον ἔχειν, μέμψιν ἔχειν.
blame for a thing: P. and V. μέμφεσθαί; (τί τινι, V. also τινός τινι), ἐπιπλήσσειν (τί τινι).
