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. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> μνᾶτο <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Fr.</span>96.1</span>: sometimes in these contr. forms lengthd. again, as 2sg. pres. [[μνάᾳ]], inf. <b class="b3">μνάασθαι [μνᾱ</b>-], part. [[μνωόμενος]]; Ion. [[μνώμενος]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.96</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[μνεώμενος]]), <span class="bibl">205</span>: 3pl. impf. [[μνώοντο]], Hom. (v. infr.); imper. μνώεο <span class="bibl">A.R.1.896</span>, al.; opt. μνώοιο <span class="bibl">Max.74</span>; Ion. impf. μνάσκετο <span class="bibl">Od.20.290</span>: only pres. and impf., exc. aor. [[μνήσατο]] (in signf. <span class="bibl">11.1</span>) <span class="bibl">Eup.413</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> to [[be mindful of]], c. gen., οὐ πολέμοιο ἐμνώοντο <span class="bibl">Il.2.686</span>; μνώοντ' ὀλοοῖο φόβοιο <span class="bibl">11.71</span>; μνωόμενος προτέρης ἁρπακτύος <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Ap.</span>95</span>: abs., [[μνωομένῳ]] [[when I remember him]], <span class="bibl">Od.4.106</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">15.400</span>; also, [[turn one's mind]] to a thing, φύγαδε μνώοντο ἕκαστος <span class="bibl">Il.16.697</span>. </span><span class="sense"><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]], <span class="bibl">Od. 1.39</span>; τὴν πάντες μνώοντο <span class="bibl">11.287</span>: with no acc. expressed, <span class="bibl">16.77</span>, <span class="bibl">19.529</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> after Hom., [[sue for]], [[solicit]] a [[favour]], [[office]], etc., μνώμενος ἀρχήν <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.96</span>; <b class="b3">μνώμενον βασιληίην</b> ib.<span class="bibl">205</span>; φιλοτιμίαν μνώμενοι ἢ στάσιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>210</span>; εὔνοιαν ἑαυτῷ παρὰ τῶν στρατιωτῶν μ. <span class="bibl">Hdn.7.9.11</span>; πᾶσαν ἑαυτῷ πόλιν πατρίδα μ. <span class="bibl">Hld.3.14</span>.—Ep., Ion., and late Prose; once in Com. (v. supr.). (For signf. ''1'' cf. [[μιμνήσκω]]; in signf. ''ΙΙ'' perhaps from <b class="b3">μνᾱ-</b> = βνᾱ-, i. e. <b class="b2">gu̯nā</b>-, cf. [[γυνή]].) </span>