A.remind, put in mind, “μνήσει δέ σε καὶ θεὸς αὐτός” Od.12.38; τινος of a thing, “ἐπεί μ᾽ ἔμνησας ὀϊζύος” 3.103; “τῶν σ᾽ αὖτις μνήσω” Il.15.31, cf. 1.407; “μηδέ με τούτων μίμνησκ᾽” Od.14.169, cf. Thgn.1123, Theoc.15.36.
II. ἔμνασεν ἑστίαν πατρῴαν . . νικῶν recalled it to memory, made it famous, Pi.P.11.13.—Act. is mostly Ep., used once in Trag. (lyr.), E.Alc.878: compds. with ἀνα- or ὑπο- were preferred in Prose.
B. Med. and Pass. μιμνήσκομαι , imper. -ήσκεο Il.22.268: Ep. impf. “μιμνήσκοντο” 13.722 (the pres. only in later Prose, Pl.Ax.368a, D.H.1.13, Plu.2.653b; μέμνημαι serving as pres. in early writers): other tenses are formed from the stem μνη- (v. μνάομαι): fut. “μνήσομαι” Od.7.192, Sapph.32; “μνησθήσομαι” Hdt.6.19, E.Med.933, etc.; also “μεμνήσομαι” Il.22.390, Od.19.581, Hdt.8.62, E.Hipp.1461, Pl.Phlb. 31b, etc.: aor. ἐμνησάμην, inf. “μνήσασθαι” Od.4.331, Tyrt.12.1, Hdt. 7.39; rare in Trag., as S.OT564; Ep. “μνησάσκετο” Il.11.566; Trag. also ἐμνήσθην (used by Hom. only in Od.4.118), S.El.373, etc.; Aeol. “ἐμνάσθην” Sapph.Supp.4.11: pf. μέμνημαι, Aeol. “μέμναιμαι” Alc. Supp.28.6, in Att. always in pres. sense, as also freq. in Hom.; 2sg. “μέμνηαι” Il.21.442, “μέμνῃ” 15.18; imper. μέμνησο, Dor. “μέμνα_σο” Epich. 250, etc., Ion. “μέμνεο” Hdt.5.105; subj. “μέμνωμαι -ώμεθα” Od.14.168, S.OT49; Ion. -εώμεθα Archil.(?) in PLit.Lond.54.4; opt. “μεμνῄμην” Il.24.745, -“ῇτο” Ar.Pl.991 (μεμνῇο, -ῇτο shd. prob. be read for -ῷο or -οῖο, -ῷτο in X.An.1.7.5, Cyr.1.6.3, and μεμνοῖτο is dub. in Crates Com.50); Ep. 3sg. “μεμνέῳτο” Il.23.361; Dor. 3pl. “μεμναίατο” Pi. Fr.94; inf. μεμνῆσθαι; Aeol. imper. “μέμναισο” Sapph.Supp.23.8; part. μεμνημένος: plpf. “ἐμεμνήμην” Isoc. 12.35; Ion. 3pl. “ἐμεμνέατο” Hdt.2.104:—remind oneself of a thing, call to mind:—Constr.: sts. c. acc., remember, “Τυδέα δ᾽ οὐ μέμνημαι” Il.6.222, cf. 9.527, Od.14.168, S.OT1057, Pl.Lg.633d, D.44.7; esp. with relat. clause following, “μ. τὸν στόλον ὡς ἔπρηξε” Hdt.7.18; “μέμνησο δ᾽ ἀμφίβληστρον ὡς ἐκαίνισας” A.Ch.492; “μ. τὸν Εὐφραῖον, οἷ᾽ ἔπαθεν” D.9.61; also μέμνησο ἐκεῖνο, ὅτι . . X.Cyr.2.4.25; μεμνώμεθα ταῦτα περὶ ἀμφοῖν, ὅτι . . Pl. Phlb.31a: more freq. c. gen., “φίλου μεμνήσομ᾽ ἑταίρου” Il.22.390; “τοῦ ποτε μεμνήσεσθαι ὀΐομαι” Od.19.581; “οὐδὲ παῖδος οὐδὲ φίλων τοκήων οὐδὲν ἐμνάσθη” Sapph.Supp. l. c., cf. Hdt.8.62, E.Hipp.1461, etc.; also “μεμνημένος ἀμφ᾽ Ὀδυσῆϊ” Od.4.151; “ἀμφὶ Διώνυσον . . μνήσομαι” h.Hom. 7.2; “περὶ πομπῆς μνησόμεθα” Od.7.192:—Pass., to be remembered (not in early Prose), “τὰ παραπτώματα οὐ μνησθήσεται” LXX Ez.18.22; “αἱ ἐλεημοσύναι σου ἐμνήσθησαν” Act.Ap.10.31, cf. Apoc.16.19.
2. c. inf., “μέμνηντο γὰρ αἰεὶ ἀλλήλοις . . ἀλεξέμεναι” Il.17.364; “μέμνησο δ᾽ εἴκειν” A.Supp.202; “μέμνησο δάκνειν, διαβάλλειν” Ar.Eq.495; “μεμνήσθω ἀγαθὸς ἀνὴρ εἶναι” X.An.3.2.39; “μέμνησθέ μοι μὴ θορυβεῖν” Pl.Ap. 27b.
3. after Hom., c. part., θνατὰ μεμνάσθω περιστέλλων μέλη let him remember that he clothes, Pi.N.11.15; μέμνημαι κλύων I remember hearing, A.Ag.830; “μεμνήμεθα ἐλθόντες” E.Hec.244; “μ. ἀκούσας” X.Cyr.1.6.3, etc.: folld. by a relat., “μέμνησ᾽, ὅπως εὖ μοι στομώσεις αὐτόν” Ar.Nu.1107.
4. abs., “ἀφ᾽ οὗ Ἕλληνες μέμνηνται” Th.2.8, cf. 5.66: pf. part. μεμνημένος in commands, ὧδέ τις . . μεμνημένος ἀνδρὶ μαχέσθω let him fight with good heed, let him remember to fight, Il.19.153, cf. 5.263, Hes.Op.422, etc.
II. make mention of, c. gen., “τῶν νῦν μοι μνῆσαι” Od.4.331; Μοῦσαι, μνησαίαθ᾽ ὅσοι ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθον (i. e. τῶν, ὅσοι) Il.2.492; also “μνήσασθαι περί τινος” Hdt.7.39: freq. in aor. Pass. μνησθῆναι, Od.4.118, S.Ph.310; “μνησθῆναι περί τινος” Hdt. 1.36, cf. 9.45; “περί τινος ἔς τινα” Th.8.47, cf. 1.10, 37, etc.; “μνησθεὶς ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰρήνης” D.18.21; “μ. τινὸς πρός τινα” Lys.1.19: later c. dat. pers., recall to one's memory, remind, ἐμνήσθην σοι καὶ παρόντι περί . . PLille12.1 (iii B. C.), cf. PCair.Zen.122.7, al. (iii B. C.): rarely c. acc., “ταῦτα καὶ μακάρων ἐμέμναντ᾽ ἀγοραί” Pi.I.8(7).29: abs., μευ μεμναμένω εἰ φιλέεις με mentioning your name to see if . . , Theoc.3.28.
III. give heed to, “πατρὸς καὶ μητέρος” Od.18.267; μ. βρώμης give heed to food, 10.177; ὡς μεμνέῳτο δρόμου (v.l. δρόμους) that he might give heed to the running, Il.23.361; μ. χάρμης, δαιτός, σίτου, 4.222, Od.20.246, Il.24.129; “μεμνᾶσθαι πολέμου τε καὶ μάχας” B.17.58; “ἀοιδᾶς” Pi.Fr.94. (Aeol. μιμναίσκω (not μιμνᾴσκω) Hdn.Gr.2.79,178; but Ep., Ion., Att. μιμνήσκω without ι, PCair.Zen.15v.35 (iii B. C., ὑπο-), Inscr.Magn.16.27 (early ii B. C., [ἀνα-]), SIG704E18 (Delph., late ii B. C., ὑπο-), Did.in An.Ox.1.196; cogn. with Lat. memini, etc.)
