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μνήμ-η , Dor. μνάμα , ἡ, (μνάομαι)
A.remembrance, memory of a person or thing, abs. or c. gen., “κακῶν μ. γίνεται οὐδεμία” Thgn.798; “οὔτ᾽ ἀγαθῶν μνήμην εἰδότες οὔτε κακῶν” Id.1114; “τῶν ἐμῶν μνάμα ποκ᾽ ἐσσεῖται πόνων” Epich.254; λείπεσθαι ἀθάνατον μ. (sc. ἑαυτοῦ) Hdt.4.144; “μ. ἔχειν τινός” S.OT1246, OC509, etc.; “τάφου μ. τίθεσθαι” E.Ph.1585; οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μ. ἐποιοῦντο made their recollections suit their sufferings, Th.2.54; μνήμην πεποίηκεν has made [him] remembered, Arist.Rh.1414a6: pl., “ἀγήρατοι μνῆμαι” Lys.2.79; of the dead, μακαρίας μνήμης, θείας μνήμης, IG7.175 (Megara), Just.Nov.43 Praef., etc.; κρατίστης μνήμης Wilcken Chr.26.30 (ii A. D.); “μνήμης ἀρίστης” IG7.2808.6 (Hyettus, iii A. D.).
2. memory as a power of the mind, Simon.146, etc.; “μνήμην ἁπάντων μουσομήτορ᾽ ἐργάνην” A.Pr.461; proper to animals, opp. ἀνάμνησις, of man, Pl. Phlb.34c, cf. “μνημονεύω” 1.2; εἰπεῖν τι μνήμης ἄπο from memory, S.OT 1131; “ἐν μνήμῃ λαβεῖν” Pl.Ti.26b; “φυλάξαι τῇ μ.” Id.Lg.783c; εἰς μ. ἀναληπτέον ib.864b; “ἐφ᾽ ὅσον μ. ἀνθρώπων ἐφικνεῖται” X.Cyr.5.5.8; “φέρειν ἐν μ.” Men.Mon.435: pl., αἱ πολλαὶ μ. τοῦ αὐτοῦ πράγματος μιᾶς ἐμπειρίας δύναμιν ἀποτελοῦσιν all the memories, acts of memory, Arist. Metaph.980b29, cf. APo.100a5; powers of memory, Id.Rh.1362b24 (s. v. l.).
3. memorial, record, “κυπαρίττιναι μνῆμαι εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον καταγεγραμμέναι” Pl.Lg.741c; μνῆμαι ἐν μέτροις καὶ ἄνευ μέτρων inscriptions, Arist.Rh.1361a34; μ. μυθολόγος mythological record, history, Call.Aet.3.1.55, cf. Gal.Sect.Intr.2.
II. mention, notice of a thing, “μ. ποιεῖσθαί τινος” Hdt.1.15, etc.; μ. ποιήσασθαι περί or ὑπέρ τινος, Plb.2.7.12, 2.71.1; “ἡ ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων μ.” D.S.15.52; “μ. ἔχειν τινός” Hdt.1.14, etc. (cf. supr.1); “μ. ἐπασκέειν” Id.2.77.
III. μνήμη βασίλειος the imperial cabinet or archives, τῆς β. μ. προεστώς, = Lat. a memoria, Hdn.4.8.4, cf. D.C.76.14 (prob.).
IV. = μνῆμα, tomb, AJP48.18 (Rome).
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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