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μέμφομαι

1.to blame, censure, find fault with a person or thing, c. acc., Hes., Hdt., attic
2.c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, to impute as blameworthy, cast it in his teeth, Lat. exprobrare or objicere alicui, Hdt., attic
3.c. dat. pers. only, to find fault with, Trag.;—c. gen. rei only, to complain of a thing, Eur., Thuc.; and with both these cases, τοῦδ᾽ ἂν οὐδεὶς μέμψαιτό μοι no one would find fault with me for this, Aesch.
4.c. inf. with μή pleonastic, μ. μὴ πολλάκις βουλεύεσθαι to impute blame for doing, Thuc.

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