A.“μενοινάᾳ” 19.164: Ep. impf. “μενοίνεον” 12.59; 3sg. “ἐμενοίνα” Hes.Sc.368, “μενοίνα” Od.11.532, Theoc. 25.62: aor. “μενοίνησεν” Od.2.36; subj. “μενοινήσωσι” Il.10.101; opt. “μενοινήσειε” 15.82 (but subj. “μενοινήῃσι” Aristarch.), Od.2.248: (μένος): — = μενεαίνω, desire eagerly, “φρεσὶν ᾗσι μ.” Od.2.34; “μετὰ φρεσὶ σῇσι” Il.14.264; θυμῷ, ἐνὶ θυμῷ, 19.164, Od.2.248: mostly c. acc. rei, ib. 285, al.; “ἔργα πολλὰ μ.” Pi.N.11.45; “νόῳ ὅγε πολλὰ μενοίνα” Theoc. l.c.: also c. pres. inf., “μ. πολεμίζειν” Il.19.164, cf. Od.22.217: c. aor. inf., 2.248, 21.157, Pi.P.1.43; also μενοίνεον εἰ τελέουσι were eager to see whether . . , Il.12.59: rarely abs., ὧδε μενοινῶν so eager [for battle], 15.293; μ. τινί τι design or purpose something against one, “κακὰ δὲ Τρώεσσι μενοίνα” Od.11.532: c. dat. rei alone, strive for a thing, “μ. χρήμασι” Thgn.461.—Ep. and Lyr., twice in Trag., in pres., τί ποτε μενοινᾷ; S.Aj.341; “νιν σφάξαι μενοινᾷς” E.Cyc.448; once in Ar., pres., “ἐξελεῖν ἡμῶν μενοινῶν . . τἀνθρήνια” V.1080.
μενοιν-άω , Ep. μενοιν-ώω Il.13.79; 3sg.
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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