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μην-ύω (v. fin.), Dor. μα_ν- B.Fr.10, SIG417.7 (Delph., iii B. C.): fut. -ύσω Hdt.2.121. γ', etc.: aor.
A.“ἐμήνυ_σα” h.Merc.264, And.1.26, etc.: pf. μεμήνυ_κα ib.22, Pl.Ti.48b, Men.Pk.28:—Pass., pf. “μεμήνυ_ται” And.1.10, Th.1.20: aor. “ἐμηνύθην” E.Ion 1563, Pl.Criti.108e: fut. “μηνυθήσομαι” Gal.UP5.15:—disclose what is secret, reveal: generally, make known, declare, “μ. τινί τι” h.Merc.254, Pi.N.9.4, Hdt.1.23; τι S.OT102, 1384, etc.; τί μηνύεις νέον; E.Ba.1029; τὸ πρᾶγμ᾽ οὐ μεμήνυκ' Men. l.c.; τοὺς ἑτερογνάθους μ. ἡ πέδη indicates, betrays them, X.Eq.3.5; “Λυδία λίθος μανύει χρυσόν” B. l.c.:—Pass., “κατὰ τὸ μεμηνυμένον” Phld.Acad. Ind.p.81 M.
2. c. acc. et part., πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα μ. τινὰ ἔχοντα show that he has, Hdt.2.121.“γ᾽; ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς ἀποθανόντα τινὰ μ.” Antipho 2.1.5; “γεγονὼς ἐμηνύθη πόλεμος” Pl.Criti. l.c.: the part. is sts. omitted, τόδ᾽ ἔργον . . σε μηνύει κακόν (sc. ὄντα) E.Hipp.1077: c. acc. et inf., [“ποιηταὶ] ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχειν μ.” Pl.R.366b; also ἡ ἐπιστήμη μ. ὡς . . ἑπομένης τῆς ψυχῆς gives indication of the soul as following, Id.Cra. 412a.
3. folld. by an interrog. or Conj., “μήνυσον αὐτοῖς τίς ἐστιν” Id.Ap.24d; ἀλλά μοι μηνύσατε εἰ . . inform me whether . . , Ar.Ach. 206; μ. ὅτι . . Arist.EN1101b29.
4. abs., “ὡς ὁ ἔμπροσθεν μεμήνυκεν ἡμῖν λόγος” Pl.Phdr.277c, cf. Phlb.19b.
II. at Athens, inform, lay information against another, “κατά τινος” And.1.20, Lys.6.23; τινας Docum. ap. And.1.13; ταῦτα And.ibid.; περὶ τῶν μυστηρίων ib.19; “μ. τι κατά τινος” Th.6.60; “μ. τοῖς ἄρχουσίν τι” Pl.Lg.730d; “πρός τινας” D. 24.11: abs., “ὁ μηνύσας” OGI665.29 (Egypt, i A. D.): impers. in Pass., μηνύεται information is laid, Th.6.28; “ὑποτοπήσαντες . . Ἱππίᾳ μεμηνῦσθαι” Id.1.20, cf. 6.57, And.1.10; “ὧν πέρι ἄλλων ἐμεμήνυτο” Th.6.61:— Pass., also of persons, to be informed against, denounced, τῶν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ μεμηνυμένων ib.53, cf. X.HG3.3.10; “πρᾶγμα μηνυθέν” E.Ion 1563; “μηνυθέντος τοῦ ἐπιβουλεύματος” Th.4.89. [υ_ always in fut., aor., and pf.; and in Att. so in pres. and impf.; υ^ in Ep. and Lyr. in pres. and impf., h.Merc.254, Pi.N.l.c., O.6.52, P.1.93, I.8(7).60, B.l.c., but υ_, h.Merc.373, B.9.14, and later.]
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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