- μιμέομαι
- μιμέομαι (μῖμος, ‘imitator, mimic’) mid. dep.; impv. μιμοῦ; impf. ἐμιμούμην; fut. μιμήσομαι; 1 aor. ἐμιμησάμην (Pind.+) to use as a model, imitate, emulate, follow, w. acc. of pers., and in our lit. only of behavior (Ael. Aristid. 34 p. 669 D.; Wsd 15:9; Philo; Jos., Ant. 6, 347, C. Ap. 2, 257; Tat. 7, 3) ISm 12:1. ἡμᾶς 2 Th 3:7, 9 (PFlor 367, 3 ἐγὼ οὐ μειμήσομαί σε). θεόν Dg 10:5 (Heraclitus, Ep. 5, 1 θεόν; Eunap. 104 of Oribasius the physician: ἐμιμεῖτο θεόν [Asclepius]; EpArist 281; Philo, Spec. Leg. 4, 73, Virt. 168; TestAsh 4:3 κύριον; Did., Gen. 57, 22; 180, 9).—Of Christ ἂν ἡμᾶς μιμήσεται, καθὰ πράσσομεν if he were to imitate our way of acting IMg 10:1. W. acc. of thing imitate someth. (Appian, Samn. 10 §1 τὴν ἀρετήν; TestAbr 20 p. 104, 6 [Stone p. 56] τὴν φιλοξενίαν; Philo, Congr. Erud. Gr. 69 τὸν ἐκείνων βίον al.; Jos., Ant. 12, 241, C. Ap. 1, 165; Iren. 1, 17, 2 [Harv. I 168, 7;11]) τὴν πίστιν Hb 13:7. Copy τὶ someth. τὸ κακόν, ἀγαθόν (Sotades 7, 2 μιμοῦ τὸ καλόν [Coll. Alex. p. 241]; Kaibel 85, 3 ἐμιμούμην τὸ καλόν; EpArist 188; Just., A I, 10, 1 ἀγαθά) 3J 11. τὸ μαρτύριον MPol 19:1.—DELG s.v. μῖμος. M-M. EDNT. TW.
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