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μένω , Ep. inf.
A.“μενέμεν” Il.5.486; Arc. pres. part. “μίνονσαι” Schwyzer 657.49 (Tegea, iv B.C.); Ep., Ion. impf. “μένεσκον” Il.19.42, Hdt.4.42: Ep., Ion. fut. “μενέω” Il.19.308, Hdt.4.119; Att. “μενῶ” Ar.Ach.564, etc.: aor. “ἔμεινα” Il.15.656, etc.: pf. “μεμένηκα” D.18.321; cf. μίμνω :—stay, wait:
I. stand fast, in battle, “οὐδ᾽ ἴφθιμοι Λύκιοι μένον, ἀλλὰ φόβηθεν” Il.16.659; “μενέω καὶ τλήσομαι” 11.317; φεύγειν μηδὲ μένειν Orac. ap.Hdt.1.55, cf. X.Cyr.3.3.45, S.OT295; “ἐμπέδως μ.” A.Ag.854; “ἀραρότως” Id.Supp.945; μ. κατὰ χώραν, of soldiers, Th.4.26.
2. stay at home, stay where one is, Il.16.838; “ἔντοσθε μένοντες” Hes.Th. 598; “μ. αὐτοῦ” Hdt.8.62; “οἴκοι” A.Fr.317; “εἴσω δόμων” Id.Th.232; “κατ᾽ οἶκον” E.IA656; “ἐν δόμοις” Pi.N.3.43, S.Aj.80; “ἔνδον” Amphis 1.3.
b. lodge, stay, “παρὰ ματρί” Pi.P.4.186; “πρὸς τοὺς γονέας” Hp. Ep.13; “ἐκεῖ” Plb.30.4.10 codd. (fort. οἴκοι), cf. Alciphr.3.5.
c. μ. ἀπὸ ἧς ἀλόχοιο stay away, be absent from . . , Il.2.292; “ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο” 18.64: and so abs., to be a shirker, “ἴση μοῖρα μένοντι καὶ εἰ μάλα τις πολεμίζοι” 9.318.
d. οἱ μένοντες, opp. οἱ φεύγοντες (exiles), IG12.10.27.
3. stay, tarry, “ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα” Od.17.570; “μενέουσι, εἰς ὅ κέ περ Τροίην διαπέρσομεν” Il.9.45; loiter, be idle, 11.666, A.Pers. 796; “οἱ μένοντες” X.An.4.4.19, etc.
4. of things, to be lasting, remain, stand, “στήλη μένει ἔμπεδον” Il.17.434; “ἀσφαλὲς αἰὲν . . μένει οὐρανός” Pi.N.6.4; “τάδ᾽ αἰανῶς μένοι” A.Eu.672; “αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει” Id.Th.744 (lyr.); opp. φέρεσθαι, Pl.Phdr.261d; εἰ μηδὲν μένει if nothing is fixed, Id.Cra.440a; “τὴν μεμενηκυῖαν κρίσιν” Phld.Sto.339.15; οἱ μένοντες (sc. ἀστέρες) having no proper motion, opp. οἱ πλάνητες, Arist.Cael.290a21; “μένων κύκλος” Autol.12, al., Ptol.Hyp.1.3; μένουσιν ἀριστοκρατίαι are stable, permanent, Arist.Pol.1308a3.
b. μ. παρά τινι remain in one's possession, CPR18.37 (ii A.D.), etc.
5. of condition, remain as one was, of a maiden, Il.19.263; τῶν βεβαίως μοι φίλων μενόντων Ps.-Philipp. ap. D.12.11; “τὸ νόμισμα βούλεται μένειν” Arist.EN1133b14: generally, stand, hold good, “ἢν μείνωσιν ὅρκοι” E.Andr.1000; “μένειν τὸ ὅρκιον κατὰ χώρην” Hdt.4.201; “εἰ τὰ πρότερον μένει ἡμῖν ὁμολογήματα” Pl.Grg.480b; μ. τὰ βουλήματα καὶ ο<*> μεταρρεῖ Arist.EN1167b7; of circumstances, “οὐ μενεῖν κατὰ χώραν τὰ πράγματα” Th.4.76; οὐδαμὰ ἐν τὠυτῷ μ., of prosperity, Hdt.1.5; “μένειν ἐμπέδοις φρονήμασι” S.Ant.169; μ. ἐπὶ τούτων [ἃ κατέστραπται] remain contented with . . , D.4.9; “μ. ἐπὶ τούτοις” Isoc.8.7; ἐπὶ τούτῳ τῷ βίῳ μ. be content with . . , Pl.R.466c, cf. 496b; “μ. ἐλεύθερον” Men. 145; of wine, keep good, Plb.12.2.8.
6. abide by an opinion, conviction, etc., “ἐπὶ τῷ ἀληθεῖ” Pl.Prt.356e; μενέτωσαν ἐν τοῖς διαγνωσθεῖσι Lex ap.D.21.94; ὁ μένων the party which observes an engagement, PTeb.391.24 (i A.D.).
7. impers. c. inf., it remains for one to do, “μένει . . ἐκτίνειν θέμιν” A.Supp.435 (lyr.); “τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισι κατθανεῖν μένει” E.Fr.733.
II. trans., of persons, await, expect (cf. μίμνω）“, ἡμέρας μεῖναι φάος” Id.Rh.66; “τοὺς Ἰλλυριούς” Th.4.124, cf. 8.78; esp. await an attack without blenching, “Δαναοὶ Τρῶας μένον ἔμπεδον, οὐδὲ φέβοντο” Il.5.527, cf. A.Th.436; of a rock, bide the storm, Il.15.620; “ἀπορίαν γὰρ οὐ μενῶ” E.Ph.740: reversely of things, τὸ μόρσιμον γὰρ τόν τ᾽ ἐλεύθερον μένει awaits him, A.Ch.103; ἐπίξηνον μένει (sc. με) Id.Ag.1277; “ἀγὼν γὰρ ἄνδρας οὐ μένει λελειμμένους” Id.Fr.37; “δεσμά με καὶ θλίψεις μένουσιν” Act.Ap.20.23.
2. c. acc. et inf., wait for, ἦ μένετε Τρῶας σχεδὸν ἐλθέμεν; wait ye for the Trojans to come nigh? Il.4.247; “οὐ μενῶ πόσιν μολεῖν” E.Andr.255; μένον δ᾽ ἐπὶ ἕσπερον ἐλθεῖν they waited for evening's coming on, Od.1.422, etc.; “οὐκ ἔμειν᾽ ἐλθεῖν τράπεζαν νυμφίαν” Pi.P.3.16; τί μένεις . . ἰέναι; why wait to go? Thgn.351; μένω δ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι I wait, i.e. long, to hear, A.Eu.677, cf. Ag.459 (lyr.). (Cf. OPers. man- 'wait', Lat. maneo.）
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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