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μνημοσύνη , Dor. and Aeol. μνα_μοσύνα , ἡ,
A.remembrance, memory, μ. τις ἔπειτα πυρὸς . . γενέσθω let us be mindful of fire, Il.8.181; “οὐ μ. σέθεν ἔσσετ᾽” Sapph.68; “μ. ἀνεγείρειν” Pi.O.8.74; “μ. καὶ τόνος ἀμφ᾽ ἀρετῆς” Xenoph.1.20, cf. Critias 6.12 D.:—in Att. only as pr.n.
II. as pr. n. Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, h.Merc.429, Hes.Th.54, E.HF679 (lyr.), Pl.Tht.191d, BCH50.403 (Thespiae); M. “Διὸς εὐνέτις, ἣ τέκε Μούσας” Epigr.Gr.789; cf. Μναμόνα, Μνημώ.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Euripides, Heracles, 679
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 54
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 429
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 191d
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.181
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