Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, μι^νυ?́θ-ω

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II. intr., become smaller or less, decrease, “μινύθουσι δὲ οἶκοι ἐν σέλαϊ μεγάλῳ” Il.17.738; “μινύθει δέ τε ἔργ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” 16.392, cf. Hes.Op.409; μινύθουσι δὲ οἶκοι, from want of heirs, ib.244; “μινύθει δέ τοι ἦτορ ἑταίρων” Od.4.374; “μ. κραδίη” Thgn.361; ἀρετᾶς οὐ μινύθει (fort. μινύνθη）“ ἅμα σώματι φέγγος” B.3.90; μ. αἱ σάρκες shrink, waste, Hp.Art.53, Mochl.19: used by Trag. only in lyr., A.Th.920, Eu.374, S.OC686; “τὰς νύκτας ἔφασκον τῶ θέρεος μινύθειν” Theoc.21.23. (Cf. Skt. minóti, minā´ti 'diminish', 'violate', 'damage', Lat. minuo, etc.; cf. μείων.）

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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