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μεταμέλ-ομαι , rare exc. in pres. and impf.: fut. -
A.“μελήσομαι” Phld.Rh.2.16 S., also -“μεληθήσομαι” LXX Ps.109(110).4, Sch.E.Ph. 899: aor. -εμελήθην Plb.8.23.2, D.S.19.75, later -ήσθην PThead. 51.15 (iv A. D.); also Ep. μετεμέμβλετο prob. in Panyas. in Et.Gen. s.v. μῦθος (Coll.Alex.p.249 Powell): pf. -“μεμέλημαι” LXX 1 Ma.11.10, Phld.Vit.p.34 J.:—feel repentance, regret:—Constr.:
1. c. part., μετεμέλοντο οὐ δεξάμενοι they repented that they had not . . , Th.4.27, cf. 7.50; μ. ὅτι . . Id.5.14; “ὁ μεταμελόμενος” Arist.EN1110b23.
2. μεταμέλεσθαί τινι repent at a thing, D.S.15.9; “ἐπί τινι” Id.19.75; τινων Phalar.Ep.43.
3. abs., change one's purpose or line of conduct, X.Cyr.4.6.5, Plb.4.50.6.
II. causal in fut. part., τὸ μεταμελησόμενον that which will cause regret, matter for future repentance, X.Mem.2.6.23.
III. = μεταμέλει 1.1, “μεταμέλεσθαι αὐτοῖς περὶ ὧν ἂν συμβουλεύσωνται” Pl.Demod.382d.:—the form μεταμελέομαι , censured by Thom.Mag.p.123 R., occurs in Hp.Ep.27.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.9
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 899
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.27
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.50
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.6.5
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.1
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.6.23
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.50.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.23.2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.14
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 11.10
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.75
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