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μνῆμα

mnema · τό

memorial, remembrance, record

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Where it lives

Hipparchus 4 · 17.75/10k
Against Macartatus 8 · 12.91/10k
Against Eubulides 5 · 10.9/10k
Against Callicles 2 · 9.55/10k
Against Diogeiton 1 · 5.91/10k
Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Against Evergus And Mnesibulus 3 · 5.61/10k
Suppliants 3 · 4.26/10k
Helen 4 · 4.09/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Against Olympiodorus 1 · 2.85/10k
Mark 3 · 2.73/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μνῆμα · mnēma — LSJ

memorial, remembrance, record

memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing, c. gen., μνῆμʼ Ἑλένης χειρῶν Od. 15.126; μ. ξείνοιο φίλοιο 21.40; τάφου μ. Il. 23.619; μνᾶμα κακοζοΐας Sapph. 120; μ. κάλλιστον ἀέθλων Pi. O. 3.15 (of the crown of olive); Νικοκλέος μνᾶμα κελαδῆσαι Id. I. 8(7).68; τῆς σῆς πορείας μ. A. Pr. 841; λυγρᾶς μνήματα Τροίας, of the sufferings of the Greeks, S. Aj. 1210 (lyr.); μ. . . διὰ χειρὸς ἔχων, i. e. the dead body of his son, Id. Ant. 1258 (anap.).

2 mound, building, monument, tomb, coffin

mound or building in honour of the dead, monument, tomb, Hdt. 7.167, Epigr.ib. 228, IG 1(2).906, etc.; ἐν τοῖς δημοσίοις μνήμασιν κειμένους D. 18.208; coffin, E. Or. 1053.

3 memorial, monument

memorial dedicated to a god, Simon. 138; μνάματα ναυμαχίας Id. 134, cf. Epigr. ap. D.S. 11.14: generally, monument, SIG 2B (Sigeum, vi B. C.).

II memory

= μνήμη, memory, μ. ἔχουσʼ ἀγαθῶν Thgn. 112.

In the wild

μνῆμα · mnēma Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 839–841
μνήματα · mnēmata Demosthenes, Against Callicles 14 (DIORISIS sentence 39)
μνήματʼ · mnēmatʼ Demosthenes, Against Callicles 15 (DIORISIS sentence 44)
μνήματα · mnēmata Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 28 (DIORISIS sentence 88)
μνήματα · mnēmata Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 28 (DIORISIS sentence 90)
μνήμασιν · mnēmasin Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 37 (DIORISIS sentence 127)

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Where it came from

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