The corpus record

μέμψις

mempsis · ἡ

blame, censure

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Where it lives

Job 3 · 2.25/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

μέμψις · mempsis — LSJ

blame, censure, blame, censure, censures, complaints

blame, censure, μέμψιν δικαίαν μέμφομαι Ar. Pl. 10; μ. ἐπιφέρειν τινί Id. Ra. 1253 (lyr.); μ. λαβεῖν Men. 576 (s. v. l.); ἔχειν μ. to incur blame, E. Heracl. 974; φίλων μ. censure of them, S. Fr. 472: pl., censures, Pl. Lg. 684d; complaints, Arist. EN 1162b5.

2 ground of complaint

ground of complaint, μ. οὔτινʼ ἀνθρώποις ἔχων A. Pr. 445, cf. S. Ph. 1309.

In the wild

μέμψιν · mempsin Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 445–446
μέμψεις · mempseis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1162b (DIORISIS sentence 3014)
μέμψεις · mempseis Epictetus, Discourses 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 357)
μέμψις · mempsis Epictetus, Discourses 3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 5096)
μέμψις · mempsis Epictetus, Discourses 3.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3975)
μέμψις · mempsis Euripides, Ion *)aqh/na.1555 (DIORISIS sentence 1042)

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Where it came from

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