μνημ-εῖον,
Doric dialect μνᾱμεῖον, Ionic dialect μνημήϊον, τό, memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing, μνημήϊα καταλιπέσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.126, 135; λόγων φερτάτων μ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.49, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 49, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μνημεῖα ὅρκων a record of the oaths, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1204; μνημεῖα κακῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἀΐδια 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μνημεῖα τῆς δαπάνης visible memorials, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1321a40; ἐνομίζομεν τὰς συμφορὰς ἱκανὰ μ. τῇ πόλει καταλελεῖφθαι, ὥστε μηδ᾽ ἄν.. ἐπιθυμεῖν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 34.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ παίδων μαθήματα θαυμαστὸν ἔχει τι μ. the lessons of childhood cling strangely to the memory, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μνημεῖα καταλειφθῆναι τῶν μελλόντων ἔσεσθαι to be left behind as reminders of things to come, [[ [prev. author] “Phdr.” 233a. ] Refs]
__2 of one dead, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 106 (_plural_); μνημεῖ᾽ Ὀρέστου.. προσθεῖναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 933 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of an urn containing the ashes of the dead,[[ [prev. work] 1126; τύμβον χῶσον κἀπίθες μνημεῖά μοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 702; τάφων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; tomb, [[ LXX.Josh.13.6, NT.John.5.28, “SIG” 1234, etc.] LXX+NT]: generally, monument, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 120c (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.17, “IG” 14.1932 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]