Μήνιμα

cause of wrath

Translated by Catharine Roth13 Jul 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

2 words

Translation

[Meaning] madness.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μήνιμα· ἡ μανία.

Betacode
*mh/nima: h( mani/a.  

Notes

  1. The headword is a neuter noun (related to the verb mhni/w: see mu 956, etc.) with three related meanings in LSJ: cause of wrath; (blood-)guilt; wrath. Its earliest occurrences -- in the first of these senses -- are in a phrase found twice in Homer (Iliad 22.358, Odyssey 11.73); mh/ toi/ ti qew=n mh/nima ge/nwmai. The scholia to neither of those passages use the present glossing term; see rather Hesychius s.v. (and Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 112.24).
    For the headword see also under delta 979.

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Revision history3 revisions · last 14 Apr 2015
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. recast and expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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