The corpus record

μήνη

mene · ἡ

moon, silver

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Where it lives

De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 1 · 0.68/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k
Histories 11 · 0.6/10k
Laws 6 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μήνη · mēnē — LSJ

moon

moon, Il. 19.374, Emp. 42.3, A. Pr. 797, E. Fr. 1009: rare in Prose, Pythag. ap. Iamb. Protr. 21.ιζʼ; as a goddess, h.Hom. 32.1, Pi. O. 3.20.

f.l. in Ar. Av. 1115; cf. μείς I.3b.

III silver

Alch., silver, Ps.-Democr. p.48 B.

In the wild

μήνη · mēnē Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 790–797
μηνῶν · mēnōn Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 66)
μηνῶν · mēnōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8690)
μηνῶν · mēnōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3553)
μηνῶν · mēnōn Herodotus, Histories 1.192.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1353)
μηνῶν · mēnōn Herodotus, Histories 1.192.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1353)

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Where it came from

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