A.memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing, “μνημήϊα καταλιπέσθαι” Hdt.2.126,135; “λόγων φερτάτων μ.” Pi.P.5.49, cf. A.Th.49, etc.; μνημεῖα ὅρκων a record of the oaths, E.Supp.1204; “μνημεῖα κακῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἀΐδια” Th.2.41; μνημεῖα τῆς δαπάνης visible memorials, Arist.Pol.1321a40; “ἐνομίζομεν τὰς συμφορὰς ἱκανὰ μ. τῇ πόλει καταλελεῖφθαι, ὥστε μηδ᾽ ἄν . . ἐπιθυμεῖν” Lys.34.1; τὰ παίδων μαθήματα θαυμαστὸν ἔχει τι μ. the lessons of childhood cling strangely to the memory, Pl.Ti.26b; μνημεῖα καταλειφθῆναι τῶν μελλόντων ἔσεσθαι to be left behind as reminders of things to come, Id.Phdr.233a.
2. of one dead, Simon.106 (pl.); “μνημεῖ᾽ Ὀρέστου . . προσθεῖναι” S.El. 933; of an urn containing the ashes of the dead, ib.1126; “τύμβον χῶσον κἀπίθες μνημεῖά μοι” E.IT702; “τάφων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων μ.” Pl.R. 414a; tomb, LXX Jo.13.6, Ev.Jo.5.28, SIG1234, etc.: generally, monument, Th.1.138, Pl.Criti.120c (pl.), X.HG2.4.17, IG14.1932 (ii A. D.), etc.
