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μείρομαι (A), Hes.Op.578 (ἀπο-), imper.
A.“μείρεο” Il.9.616; elsewh. in Hom. and Hes. only 3sg. ἔμμορε (which is prob. aor. (v. infr. II) and was so understood by later Ep. Poets, who have 2sg. “ἔμμορες” A.R.3.4; 3pl. ἔμμορον cited by EM335.24, “ἐξ-έμμορον” Nic.Th.791: but pf. 3pl. “ἐμμόραντι: τετεύχασι” Hsch.); we also have (as if from μορέω) fut. “μορήσω” EM335.23: pf. “μεμόρηκα” Nic.Al.213; for pass. forms v. infr. III:—receive as one's portion, with collat. notion of its being one's due: c. acc., καὶ ἥμισυ μείρεο τιμῆς take half the honour as thy due, Il. l.c.; later, divide, “ἀροτήσιον ὥρην τριπλόα μείρονται” Arat. 1054.
II. in form ἔμμορε （ἔμμορες, etc.), obtain one's share of, c. gen., “οὔ ποθ᾽ ὁμοίης ἔμμορε τιμῆς” Il.1.278; “πάντα δέδασται, ἕκαστος δ᾽ ἔμμορε τιμῆς” 15.189, cf. Od.11.338; “θεῶν ἒξ ἔμμορε τιμῆς” 5.335; “ἔμμορέ τοι τιμῆς ὅς τ᾽ ἔμμορε γείτονος ἐσθλοῦ” Hes.Op.347; “ἐν δὲ διχοστασίῃ καὶ ὁ πάγκακος ἔμμορε τιμῆς” Call.Fr.anon.373: later c. acc., A.R.3.208, Nic.Al.488.
2. c. part., like τυγχάνω, happen to be, νόημα . . μεμόρηκε . . ἐσφαλμένον ib.213.
III. pf. Pass. εἵμαρται, inf. “εἱμάρθαι” B.13.1, App.BC2.4: impers., it is allotted, decreed by fate, “εὖ εἱμάρθαι παρὰ δαίμονος” B. l.c.: usu. c. acc. et inf., Pl.R.566a, Phdr.255b: freq. in plpf. εἵμαρτο it was decreed, “νῦν δέ με λευγαλέῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι” Il.21.281; “ἐκ γὰρ τῆς εἵμαρτο . . τέκνα γενέσθαι” Hes.Th.894; “εἰ . . οὕτως εἵμαρτο πρᾶξαι” D.18.195, etc.: freq. also in part., “θεῶν εἱμαρμένα δῶρα” Thgn.1033; “τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα . . σὺν θεοῖς εἱμαρμένα” A.Ag.913; τοιαῦτα . . πρὸς θεῶν εἱμ. S.Tr.169; “χρόνος εἱμαρμένος” Pl.Prt.320d, cf. Phd.113a; “εἴπερ εἱμαρμένον εἴη” Id.Mx.243e; ἡ εἱμαρμένη (sc. μοῖρα) destiny, Id.Phd.115a, Grg.512e, D. 18.205, etc.: later forms “μέμορται” Phot., Suid.: inf. μέμορθαι Aeol. acc. to Sch.Il.10.67, EM312.46: part. μεμορμένος, θάνατος, οἶκος, A.R.3.1130, Epigr.Gr.414.7 (Egypt); “ἠρίον” Alex.Aet.3.33; “πότμος” Lyc.430; “κῆρες” AP7.700 (Diod.); “τὸ μ.” Plu.Mar.39, Agath.1.1 (v.l. μεμαρμένον): Aeol. ἐμμόρμενον Alc.Supp.14.7: Dor. ἐμβρα^μένα (q.v.); βεβρα^μένων: εἱμαρμένων, Hsch.; “μεμόρηται” Man.6.13; “μεμορημένος” AP7.466 (Leon.); but μεμορημένον in Nic.Al.229 is from μορέω (q.v.); Dor. 3sg. μεμόρακται (as if from μοράζω) it receives a portion of, τινος Ti.Locr.95a.
IV. μείρομαι as Pass., to be divided from, τινος Arat.657.
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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