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μέμφομαι , Thgn.797, etc.: impf.
A.“ἐμέμφετο” Batr.70: fut. “μέμψομαι” Hes.Op.186, etc.: aor. “ἐμέμφθην” Hdt.1.77, 3.13, Pi.N.11.30 (κατα-), E.Hipp.1402, al., Th.4.85 (in pass. sense, Ph.1.301, A.D.Synt.67.22): but in Att. and Trag. commonly ἐμεμψάμην, as A.Pr.1073 (anap.), And.4.3, Th.1.143, also in Mimn.14.5, Hdt.2.24: pres. in pass. sense, D.L.6.47, Asp.in EN133.14: fut. μεμφθήσομαι Ps.-Men. in Meineke Fragm.Com.Gr.iv p.337:—blame, censure, first in Hes. (though ἐπιμέμφομαι occurs in Hom.):
1. c. acc. pers., “μέμψονται δ᾽ ἄρα τούς” Hes.Op.186, cf. Thgn.797, Pi.N.7.64, S.El.384, etc.; “μ. τύχην” A. Pr.1073 (anap.); “μ. τὸν θέντα τὸν νόμον” And.4.3; κατὰ τὸ μαντήϊον οὐκ ὀρθῶς ὁ Κροῖσος μέμφεται (sc. τὸν Λοξίαν) Hdt.1.91; “μ. τινὰ πρὸς τοὺς φίλους” X.Oec.11.23; “μ. τινὰ εἴς τι” Id.An.2.6.30.
b. c.acc. rei, “οἶνε, τὰ μέν σ᾽ αἰνῶ, τὰ δὲ μέμφομαι” Thgn.873; μ. τὴν γνώμην, τὰ δῶρα, Hdt.1.207, 3.13; “μ. τὴν φιλοσοφίαν” Pl.Euthd.305b; “ἄλλο οὐδὲν μ.” X. An.7.6.39; “μεμφθεὶς κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τὸ ἑωυτοῦ στράτευμα” Hdt.1.77; “ταῦτα . . προτ᾽ ἐμὸν θυμὸν ἐμεμψάμαν” Theoc.30.24.
2. c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, impute as blameworthy, cast in one's teeth, Sapph.Supp. 14.7 (prob.), Hdt.3.4,4.180, Ar.Nu.525, Av.137, Th.1.143, etc.: also c. acc. cogn., “τῷ Λοξίᾳ μέμψιν μ.” Ar.Pl.10, etc.; μ. τινὶ ὅτι . . Hdt.9.6, cf. 6.92; οὕνεκα . . E.Hel.31; εἰ . . Th.4.85: c. dat. pers. et gen. rei, “οὔποτ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τῷδε κηρυκευμάτων μέμψει” A.Th.652: c. gen. pers. et acc. rei, ὃ μάλιστα μέμφονται ἡμῶν which is the chief complaint they make against us, Th.1.84.
3. c. dat. pers. only, to be dissatisfied with, find fault with, A.Th.560, Pr.63, S.Tr.470, E.Or.285, IA899 (troch.), X.Mem.3.5.20, Ep.Hebr.8.8: with part.added, “μ. ἡμῖν λογισαμένοις” Luc.Charid.20; “ὡς κακῶς βουλευομένοις” Pl.Phdr.234b, cf. Cri.50d.
4. c. gen. rei only, complain of, “οὐ μάχης . . μέμψει” A. Fr.199.3; “εἴ τι μέμφῃ τῆς ἐμῆς ἀπουσίας” E.Hec.962; τιμῆς ἐμέμφθη of her [neglected] honour (cf. “εὐχωλῆς ἐπιμέμφεται” Il.1.93), E.Hipp. 1402; “μ. τῶν γεγενημένων” Th.8.109.
5. c. inf. with μή, μ. μὴ πολλάκις βουλεύεσθαι object that one ought not . . , Id.3.42.
6. abs., find fault, complain, A.Supp.137 (lyr.); “ὅτι” Arist.EN1162b18. in Law, οἱ μεμφόμενοι the plaintiffs, GDI4998 (Gortyn).
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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