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μήνι_μα , ατος, τό,
A.cause of wrath, “μή τοί τι θεῶν μ. γένωμαι” Il.22.358, Od.11.73; “παλαιῶν Ἄρεος ἐκ μηνιμάτων” E.Ph.934, cf. Trag.Adesp.in PLit.Lond.79.
2. guilt, esp. blood-guiltiness, παλαιὰ μ. guilt that cleaves to a family from the sins of their forefathers, Pl.Phdr.244d, cf. Hierocl.in CA11p.445M.; “μ. τῶν ἀλιτηρίων προστρίβεσθαί τινι” Antipho 4.2.8.
II. wrath, Ach. Tat.5.27: in pl., ib.25; “μηνίματα τῆς γῆς” Philostr.VA6.11, cf.41.
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 (7):
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 2.8
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 27
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 934
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.358
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.73
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 244d
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.11
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