μῆνις,
Doric dialect and Aeolic dialect μᾶν-, ἡ, genitive μήνιος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 390e, later μήνιδος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 80, 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 22.265d, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.50b, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.168 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—wrath; from [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] downwards frequently of the wrath of the gods, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.34, +others, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 701 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 880e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 585 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μῆνιν ἔχειν ἀπὸ θεοῦ Vett.[[ Val. 184.3; μ. χθονίων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.159 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of the dead worshipped as heroes, τοῖσι μ. κατέσκηψε Ταλθυβίου [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.134, compare 137; μ. τῶν τετελευτηκότων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of injured parents, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 155 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 294 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of suppliants, [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 234, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 762 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: but also, generally, of the wrath of Achilles, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.1, +others, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 10.7] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the revengeful temper of a people, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 21, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229: with _genitive_ objecti, ὅτου.. μ. τοσήνδε πράγματος στήσας ἔχεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 699: in _plural_, Αἰήταο μήνιες 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1205. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]