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μίμνω , ἔμιμνον, Poet. redupl. pres. and impf. of μένω; Ep. dat. pl. part.
A.“μιμνόντεσσι” Il.2.296; later Ep. impf. “μίμνασκον” Orph.L.108:— stay, stand fast, in battle, Il.13.713, 15.727, etc.
2. tarry, μετόπισθε μιμνέτω, ὥς κε κτλ. 6.69, etc.
3. of things, remain, “σόα μ.” Od. 13.364:—Med., “κλέος . . μίμνεται ἀθάνατον” Epigr.Gr.265 (Crete).
4. of things, remain, be left for one, “ἐμοὶ δὲ μ. σχισμός” A.Ag.1149, cf. 154 (lyr.).
II. c. acc., await, esp. an enemy's attack, “οὐδ᾽ ἄρα μιν μίμνον” Il.5.94, etc.; of time, “ἠῶ δῖαν ἔμιμνεν” 9.662, etc.; “πλόον ὡραῖον” Hes. Op.630.
2. impers., μίμνει δὲ μίμνοντος ἐν θρόνῳ Διὸς παθεῖν τὸν ἔρξαντα it awaits him to suffer, A.Ag.1563 (lyr.).
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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