Μεμνῇτο
might remember
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Jun 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] might keep in mind.1 Accented like this with a circumflex on the penultimate syllable, as Herodian [says] in his Homeric Prosody. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "so that wearing my cloak he might remember me."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μεμνῇτο· μιμνήσκοιτο. οὕτω προπερισπωμένως, ὡς Ἡρωδιανὸς ἐν τῇ Ὁμηρικῇ προσῳδίᾳ. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ἵνα τοὐμὸν ἱμάτιον φορῶν μεμνῇτό μου.
Betacode
*memnh=|to: mimnh/skoito. ou(/tw properispwme/nws, w(s *(hrwdiano\s e)n th=| *(omhrikh=| prosw|di/a|. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: i(/na tou)mo\n i(ma/tion forw=n memnh=|to/ mou.
Notes (2)
- 1The headword, extracted from the quotation (eventually) given, is optative of
me/mnhmai , third person singular. For the verb, see also mu 567, mu 568. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 991 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. scholion A on Homer, Iliad 23.361. Aelius Herodian, De prosodia catholica 3.1.463, discusses the accentuation; in other places, including
*peri\ *)iliakh=s prosw|di/as , he discusses why the vowel is eta rather than omega. ↩
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- Translated — Catharine Roth