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μέριμν-α , ἡ,
A.care, thought, solicitude, “ὅν τε θαμιναὶ ἐπιστρωφῶσι μέριμναι” h.Merc.44, cf. Pi.O.2.54, etc.; μ. τινός care for . . , A.Eu.132, S. OT1460; “ἀμφί τι” A.Th.843 (lyr.); “ἐλθεῖν ἐς τόδε μερίμνης” E.Ion 244, cf. 404: pl., cares, Hes.Op.178, Emp.11.1, Sapph.Supp.13.8, Thgn. 343, etc.; “γνώμαις δὲ λεπταῖς . . ξύνειμι καὶ μερίμναις” Ar.Nu.1404; “λύπας, μερίμνας, ἁρπαγάς” Diph.88.—Rare in early Prose, Hp.Insomn. 89, Pl.Amat.134b(pl.); later “ἡ τοῦ βίου μ.” UPZ20.29 (ii B. C.); μ. καὶ φροντίς Aristeas 271; “μ. τοῦ αἰῶνος” Ev.Matt.13.22, cf. Vett.Val.131.3, etc.
2. concrete, object of care or thought, “μεγάλην σε πατὴρ ἐφύτευσε μ. θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισι” h.Merc.160.
3. pursuit, ambition, esp. in pl., Pi.O.1.108, N.3.69; “κουφόταται μ.” B.1.69: sg., Pi.P.8.92.
4. Κηΐα μ. the Cean poet's fancy, B.18.11.
5. anxious mind, A.Ag. 460 (lyr.). (Cf. Skt. smárati 'remember', Lat. memor.）
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 460
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 132
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 843
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1404
    • Bacchylides, Dithyrambs, 18.11
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 1.69
    • Euripides, Ion, 244
    • Euripides, Ion, 404
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 178
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 160
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 44
    • Plato, Lovers, 134b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1460
    • New Testament, Matthew, 13.22
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