A.“μήνιος” Pl.R.390e, later “μήνιδος” Ael.Fr.80, Them.Or.22.265d, Jul.Or.2.50b, AP9.168 (Pall.):—wrath; from Hom. downwds. freq. of the wrath of the gods, Il.5.34, al., A. Ag.701 (lyr.), Pl.Lg.880e, Men.585; μῆνιν ἔχειν ἀπὸ θεοῦ Vett. Val. 184.3; “μ. χθονίων” Pi.P.4.159; also of the dead worshipped as heroes, “τοῖσι μ. κατέσκηψε Ταλθυβίου” Hdt.7.134, cf. 137; “μ. τῶν τετελευτηκότων” Pl.Hp.Ma.282a; of injured parents, A.Ag.155 (lyr.), Ch. 294; of suppliants, Id.Eu.234, cf. E.Heracl.762 (lyr.): but also, generally, of the wrath of Achilles, Il.1.1, al., cf. Alc.Supp.10.7; of the revengeful temper of a people, Hes.Sc.21, Hdt.7.229: c. gen. objecti, “ὅτου . . μ. τοσήνδε πράγματος στήσας ἔχεις” S.OT699: in pl., “Αἰήταο μήνιες” A.R.4.1205.
μῆνις , Dor. and Aeol. μᾶν- , ἡ, gen.
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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