- μνήμη
- μνήμη, ης, ἡ (Trag.+) prim. ‘remembrance, memory’.① a recollection that one has of events, opp. of ignoring by forgetting, recollection, memory, w. gen. of someth. (EpArist 159; Just., D. 19, 6 al.) τ. μνήμην τινὸς ποιεῖσθαι recall someth. to mind 2 Pt 1:15 (PFay 19, 10 [11 A.D.] τῶν πραγμάτων μνήμην ποιεῖσθαι=‘hold the things in remembrance’. Likew. schol. on Apollon. Rhod. 4, 839–41a.—The mng. of μ. ποιεῖσθαι, quotable Hdt. et al.; Jos., Ant. 18, 65=‘make mention’ is scarcely applicable here). εἰς τὴν τῶν προηθληκότων μ. in memory of those who have already contested MPol 18:2.② the state of commemorating, remembrance, memorial (Diod S 5, 73, 1 and 23, 15, 2 αἰώνιον μνήμην παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις; testament of Epicurus in Diog. L. 10, 18: a memorial meal εἰς τὴν ἡμῶν μνήμην; ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ 1, 1928, p. 18, 18 festivals are arranged εἰς μνήμην Εὐρυκλέους εὐεργέτου; Jos., Ant. 13, 63) pl. ἡ τρυφὴ καὶ ἀπάτη μνήμας οὐκ ἔχει=have no remembrance = are not long remembered (like Lat. memoriam non habet) Hs 6, 5, 3; μνήμας μεγάλας ἔχειν have a lasting remembrance = live long in remembrance ibid. (cp. Proverbia Aesopi 111 P. μνήμην ἔχειν; EpArist 279).—DELG s.v. μιμνήσκω 6. M-M. TW. Spicq. Sv.
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