mĕmĭni — Lewis & Short
mĕmĭni, isse, v. n.Sanscr. man, think; upaman = Gr. u(pome/nein, await; Gr. men- in me/nw, *me/ntwr; man- in mai/nomai, ma/ntis; mna=- in mimnh/skw, etc.; cf.: maneo, moneo, reminiscor, mens, Minerva, etc.,
I to remember, recollect, to think of, be mindful of a thing; not to have forgotten a person or thing, to bear in mind (syn.: reminiscor, recordor); constr. with gen., with acc. of the person and of the thing, with de, with a rel.-clause, with ut, with cum; with the acc. and inf. (usually the inf. pres., sometimes the inf. perf.; class.).
1 With gen.:
vivorum memini,Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:
constantiae tuae,id. Fam. 13, 75, 1:
leti paterni,to be mindful of, not forget to revenge, Val. Fl. 1, 773.—
2 With acc.:
suam quisque homo rem meminit,Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 51:
praecepta facito ut memineris,id. Mil. 4, 4, 1:
officium suum,id. Trin. 3, 2, 71:
omnia meminit,Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 106:
Cinnam memini,id. Phil. 5, 6, 17:
numeros,Verg. E. 9, 45.—With ellips. of acc.:
neque adeo edepol flocci facio, quando egomet memini mihi (sc. nomen),Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 73.—
3 With de:
de pallā memento,Plaut. As. 5, 2, 84:
de Herode,Cic. Att. 15, 27, 3; Juv. 11, 81.—
4 With a rel.-clause:
meministi, quanta hominum esset admiratio,Cic. Lael. 1, 2.—
5 With ut:
meministin', olim ut fuerit vestra oratio?Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 47; Col. 11, 2, 55.—
6 With cum:
memini, cum mihi desipere videbare,Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 1.—
7 With acc. and inf.
(a) With pres. inf. (so usually of the direct memory of an eyewitness): memini me fiere pavum, Enn. ap. Don. ad Ter. And. 2, 5, 18 (Ann. v. 15 Vahl.):
memini Catonem mecum disserere,Cic. Lael. 3, 11:
memini Pamphylum mihi narrare,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 32:
memini te mihi Phameae cenam narrare,id. Fam. 9, 16, 8; id. Deiot. 14, 38:
meministis fieri senatusconsultum referente me,id. Mur. 25, 57:
mementote hos esse pertimescendos,id. Cat. 2, 3, 5:
memento mihi suppetias ferre,Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 51.—So impers. memento with inf., remember to, i. e. be sure to, do not fail to:
memento ergo dimidium mihi istinc de praeda dare,Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 66:
ei et hoc memento (sc. dicere),id. Merc. 2, 2, 11:
dextram cohibere memento,Juv. 5, 71.—
(b) With inf. perf. (so usu. when the subject is not an eye-witness;
esp. with second and third persons of memini): peto, ut memineris. te omnia mihi cumulate recepisse,Cic. Fam. 13, 72, 2:
meministis me ita distribuisse initio causam,id. Rosc. Am. 42, 112:
memineram ... divinum virum ... senile corpus paludibus occultasse demersum,id. Sest. 22, 50:
memini gloriari solitum esse Q. Hortensium, quod, etc.,id. Fam. 2, 16, 3: memento me, son de meā, sed de oratoris facultate dixisse, id. de Or. 1, 17, 78.—Poet., of inanim. things:
meminit lēvor praestare salutem,Lucr. 4, 153, Luc. 5, 109.—
8 Absol., memini et scio, Plaut. Curc. 3, 1, 14:
recte meministi,your recollection is accurate, id. Ps. 4, 7, 57.—
II Transf., to make mention of, to mention a thing, either in speaking or writing (rare but class.):
meministi ipse de exsulibus,Cic. Phil. 2, 36, 91:
neque omnino hujus rei meminit us quam poëta ipse,Quint. 11, 2, 16: Achillam, cujus supra meminimus. Caes. B. C. 3, 108, 1:
sed tu, qui hujus judicii meministi, cur oblitus es illius,Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 13; Col. 1, 1, 13: meminerunt hujus conjurationis Janusius Geminus in historia. M. Bibulus in edictis. Suet. Caes. 9; id. Gram. 11.—Hence. mĕmĭnens, entis, P. a., mindful (ante- and post-class.): meminens corde volutat, Liv Andr ap Prisc. p. 922 P.:
aevi, quod periit. meminens,Aus. Prof. 2, 4:
meminens naturae et professionis oblitus,Sid. Ep. 4, 12.