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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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mainomai, fut. ma^noumai Hdt. 1.109, ma^nêsomai AP11.216 (Lucill.), D.L.7.118 (neither found in Att.): pf. with pres. sense memêna Aesch. PB 977, Soph. El. 879, Ar.Byz.ap.Ath.13.586f; Dor. memêna dub. in Alcm. 68; also in pass. form memanêmai [a^] Theoc.10.31: aor. Pass. emanên, part. ma^neis, inf. ma^nênai, Hdt. 3.30, Eur. Ba. 1295: also aor. Med. emênamên CPHerm.7.18 (iii A. D.); poet. 2sg. emênao prob. in Bion 1.61, 3sg. mênato Theoc.20.34; part. mênamenos AP9.35 (Antiphil.):--

  • on the act. forms, v. infr. II.--Hom. uses only pres. and impf.:--

  • rage, be furious, in Il. freq. of martial rage, mainesthai easomen oulon Arêa au=Hom. Il. 5.717, cf. au=Hom. Il. 6.101, Hom. Od. 9.350, etc.; cheires aaptoi mainontai Hom. Il. 16.245; mainetai encheiê apo loigon amunai IBID=au=Hom. Il. 16.75=lr; doru mainetai en palamêisin au=Hom. Il. 8.111; rage with anger, patêr . . phresi mainetai ouk agathêisi IBID=au=Hom. Il. 8.360=lr; eni phresi m. êtor IBID=au=Hom. Il. 8.413=lr; phresi mainomenêisin au=Hom. Il. 24.114; mainomenai kradiai Aesch. Seven 781, Eur. Med. 432 (both lyr.); maneisai prapidi IDEM=Eur. Ba. 999 (lyr.); ho maneis the madman, Soph. Aj. 726; m. kai parapaiô Plat. Sym. 173e, etc.; hai tôn memênotôn aisthêseis Aristocl.ap.Eus.PE14.20; to be mad with wine, Hom. Od. 18.406, au=Hom. Od. 21.298; memênotes hupo tou potou Luc.DDeor.18.2; of Bacchic frenzy, mainomenos Diônusos Hom. Il. 6.132; [Thuiades] mainomenai Soph. Ant. 1152 (lyr.); Dionusôi mainesthai Paus. 2.7.5; epi tôi D. Alex.223; hupo tou theou m. to be inspired by . . , driven mad by . . , Hdt. 4.79, cf. mantis; to mainesthai madness, Soph. OC 1537; plein ê mainomai I am beside myself with joy, Aristoph. Frogs 103, au=Aristoph. Frogs 751; of madness in animals, Plu.2.641c, al.; later simply, = orgizomai, mainomenos hoti . . PCair.Zen.41.11 (iii B. C.): freq. with words of manner, ho de mainetai ouket' anektôs Hom. Il. 8.355; tade mainetai au=Hom. Il. 5.185: c. acc. cogn., memênot' ou smikran noson A.Pr. l. c.; m. manias Aristoph. Thes. 793; m. manian errômenên Luc.Ind.22: c. dat., m. gooisi phrên Aesch. Seven 967 (lyr.); tolmêi Xen. Cyrop. 1.4.24; ponois at or because of . . , Aesch. Supp. 562 (lyr.); tois heurêmasin Eur. Cycl. 465; epi tini (sc. philotimiai) IDEM=Eur. Phoen. 535 (but epi tini, of love, Theoc.10.31); amphi tini Semon.7.33; eis tên poiêtikên Diod. 14.109; kata tinos Luc.Abd. 1; huph' hêdonês Soph. El. 1153.

    II. aor. 1 Act. emêna, in causal sense, madden,     Eur. Ion 520 (troch., prob. in ti=Eur. IA 580 (lyr.)), Aristoph. Thes. 561; enrage, Xen. Hell. 3.4.8: pres. mainô first in Orph.H.71.6. (Cf. memona.)