μέμφομαι,
[[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 797, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]: imperfect ἐμέμφετο [[ Batrachomyomachia 70 ] Refs]: future μέμψομαι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 186, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐμέμφθην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.77, 3.13, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 11.30 (κατα-), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1402, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85 (in _passive_ sense, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.301, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 67.22): but in _Attic dialect_ and Trag. commonly ἐμεμψάμην, as 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1073 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.3, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.143, also in 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 14.5, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.24 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: present in passive sense, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.47, 2nd c.AD: Aspasius Philosophus “in Ethica Nicomachea commentaria - pars” 133.14: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]future μεμφθήσομαι Ps.-[[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus in Meineke “Fragm.Comedy texts Gr.” iv p.337 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—blame, censure, first in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus (though ἐπιμέμφομαι occurs in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__1 with accusative person, μέμψονται δ᾽ ἄρα τούς [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 186, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 797, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.64, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 384, etc.; μ. τύχην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1073 (_anapaest meter_); μ. τὸν θέντα τὸν νόμον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸ μαντήϊον οὐκ ὀρθῶς ὁ Κροῖσος μέμφεται (i.e. τὸν Λοξίαν) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.91; μ. τινὰ πρὸς τοὺς φίλους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 11.23; μ. τινὰ εἴς τι [prev. author] “An.” 2.6.30. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]