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μαίνομαι , fut.
A.“μα^νοῦμαι” Hdt.1.109, “μα^νήσομαι” AP11.216 (Lucill.), D.L.7.118 (neither found in Att.): pf. with pres. sense “μέμηνα” A.Pr. 977, S.El.879, Ar.Byz. ap. Ath.13.586f; Dor. μέμηνα dub. in Alcm. 68; also in pass. form μεμάνημαι [α^] Theoc.10.31: aor. Pass. ἐμάνην, part. μα^νείς, inf. μα^νῆναι, Hdt.3.30, E.Ba.1295: also aor. Med. “ἐμηνάμην” CPHerm.7.18 (iii A. D.); poet. 2sg. ἐμήναο prob. in Bion 1.61, 3sg. “μήνατο” Theoc.20.34; part. “μηνάμενος” AP9.35 (Antiphil.):—on the act. forms, v. infr. 11.—Hom. uses only pres. and impf.:—rage, be furious, in Il. freq. of martial rage, “μαίνεσθαι ἐάσομεν οὖλον Ἄρηα” 5.717, cf. 6.101, Od.9.350, etc.; “χεῖρες ἄαπτοι μαίνονται” Il.16.245; μαίνεται ἐγχείη ἀπὸ λοιγὸν ἀμῦναι ib.75; “δόρυ μαίνεται ἐν παλάμῃσιν” 8.111; rage with anger, πατὴρ . . φρεσὶ μαίνεται οὐκ ἀγαθῇσι ib.360; ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μ. ἦτορ ib.413; “φρεσὶ μαινομένῃσιν” 24.114; “μαινομένᾳ κραδίᾳ” A.Th. 781, E.Med.432 (both lyr.); “μανείσᾳ πραπίδι” Id.Ba.999 (lyr.); ὁ μανείς the madman, S.Aj.726; “μ. καὶ παραπαίω” Pl.Smp.173e, etc.; “αἱ τῶν μεμηνότων αἰσθήσεις” Aristocl. ap. Eus.PE14.20; to be mad with wine, Od. 18.406, 21.298; “μεμηνότες ὑπὸ τοῦ ποτοῦ” Luc.DDeor.18.2; of Bacchic frenzy, “μαινόμενος Διώνυσος” Il.6.132; [“Θυιάδες] μαινόμεναι” S.Ant. 1152 (lyr.); “Διονύσῳ μαίνεσθαι” Paus.2.7.5; “ἐπὶ τῷ Δ.” Alex.223; ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μ. to be inspired by . . , driven mad by . . , Hdt.4.79, cf. μάντις; τὸ μαίνεσθαι madness, S.OC1537; πλεῖν ἢ μαίνομαι I am beside myself with joy, Ar.Ra.103, 751; of madness in animals, Plu.2.641c, al.; later simply, = ὀργίζομαι, μαινόμενος ὅτι . . PCair.Zen.41.11 (iii B. C.): freq. with words of manner, “ὁ δὲ μαίνεται οὐκέτ᾽ ἀνεκτῶς” Il.8.355; “τάδε μαίνεται” 5.185: c. acc. cogn., “μεμηνότ᾽ οὐ σμικρὰν νόσον” A.Pr. l. c.; “μ. μανίας” Ar.Th.793; “μ. μανίαν ἐρρωμένην” Luc.Ind.22: c. dat., “μ. γόοισι φρήν” A.Th.967 (lyr.); “τόλμῃ” X.Cyr.1.4.24; πόνοις at or because of . . , A.Supp.562 (lyr.); “τοῖς εὑρήμασιν” E.Cyc.465; ἐπί τινι (sc. φιλοτιμίᾳ) Id.Ph.535 (but ἐπί τινι, of love, Theoc.10.31); “ἀμφί τινι” Semon.7.33; “εἰς τὴν ποιητικήν” D.S.14.109; “κατά τινος” Luc.Abd. 1; “ὑφ᾽ ἡδονῆς” S.El.1153.
2. of things, rage, riot, esp. of fire, “ὡς ὅτ᾽ . . ὀλοὸν πῦρ οὔρεσι μαίνηται” Il.15.606, cf. Tryph.230; μαινόμενος οἶνος a hot, strong wine, Pl.Lg.773d; of feelings, ἐλπὶς μαινομένη Orac. ap. Hdt.8.77; “ἔρις” A.Th.935 (lyr.); “ἄχεα” S.Aj.957 (lyr.); “μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ” Id.Ant.135 (lyr.); “σὺν μ. δόξᾳ” E.Ba.887 (lyr.).
3. ἄμπελος μαινομένη, of a vine that is never done bearing fruit, Arist. Mir.846a38, Thphr.CP1.18.4.
4. μαινόμενα ἕλκη malignant ulcers, Asclep. ap. Aët.15.14.
II. aor. 1 Act. ἔμηνα, in causal sense, madden, E.Ion520 (troch., prob. in IA580 (lyr.)), Ar.Th.561; enrage, X.HG3.4.8: pres. μαίνω first in Orph.H.71.6. (Cf. μέμονα.)
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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