[ μνησιπήμων πόνος ]
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Aesch. Ag. 180
Χορός
τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ-
σαντα, τὸν πάθει μάθος
θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν.
στάζει δ᾽ ἔν θ᾽ ὕπνῳ πρὸ καρδίας
180μνησιπήμων πόνος: καὶ παρ᾽ ἄ-
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν.
δαιμόνων δέ που χάρις βίαιος
σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Agamemnon. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
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μνησι^-πήμων , ον, gen. ονος,
*A. [select] reminding of misery: μ. πόνος the painful memory of woe, A.Ag.180 (lyr.).
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πόνος , o(, (πένομαι)
A. [select] work, esp. hard work, toil, in Hom. mostly of the toil of war, μάχης π. the toil of battle, Il.16.568; πόνος alone, = μάχη, 6.77, Od.12.117, al.; πόνον ἔχειν, = μάχεσθαι, Il.6.525, cf. 13.2, al.; “ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσι π. καὶ δῆριν ἔθεντο” 17.158; “π. ἀνδρῶν” Thgn.987; “πόνοι Ἐνυαλίου” Pi.I.6(5).54; ἐν τούτῳ τῷ π. ὁ πολέμαρχος διαφθείρεται in this struggle (at Marathon), Hdt.6.114; “ἐν τοῖσι Τρωϊκοῖσι π.” Id.9.27.
2. [select] generally, toil, labour, “ἐπεὶ παύσαντο πόνου” Il.1.467, al.; π. ὀρνίθεσσι τιθείη cause toil to them, Hes.Op.470; π. λαβόντας incurring toil, Hdt.7.24; “π. παρέχειν μανθάνοντι” Pl.R. 526c; μάταιος π. labour in vain, Id.Ti.40d; “οἱ κατὰ τὰ σώματα π.” Id.Plt.294e; “π. συνεχής” Democr.241; “πολλῷ π.” A.Pers.509; “μετὰ πολλοῦ π.” Pl.Sph.230a; “σὺν π.” X.Cyn.9.6; “οὐ μακρῷ π.” A.Pr.75; “ἄνευ π.” X.Mem.2.6.22; ἔχει πόνον πολύν involves much trouble, Ar.Pax 1216 (also εἰνάλιον π. ἐχοίσας σκευᾶς when the tackle labours in the sea, Pi.P.2.79): pl., “π. ἑκούσιοι” Democr.240.
3. [select] of special kinds of labour, bodily exertion, exercise, “στρατιωτικοὶ π.” X.Cyr.3.3.9; of exertions in the games, Hes.Sc.305, Pi.N.4.1, l.4(3).47, etc.; γυμνάσια . . , νεανιᾶν (prob.) πόνον the scene of youthful labours, E.Hel.211 (lyr.); “εἰναλίοισι πόνοισι” Theoc.21.39.
4. [select] work, task, business, “ἐπεὶ π. ἄλλος ἔπειγεν” Od.11.54; enterprise, undertaking, S.Ph.864 (lyr.), etc.
5. [select] implements for labour, stock-in-trade, “οὗτος τοῖς ἁλιεῦσιν ὁ πᾶς πόνος” Theoc.21.14; καὶ πόνος ἐντὶ θάλασσα the sea is their workshop, Mosch.Fr.1.10.
II. [select] stress, trouble, distress, suffering, Il.19.227; “Τρώεσσι πόνον καὶ κήδε᾽ ἔθηκεν” 21.525; “ἦ μὴν καὶ π. ἐστὶν . .” 2.291; ἐν τούτῳ τῷ π., of a storm, Hdt.7.190; ὁ Μηδικὸς [π.] the trouble from the Medes, Id.4.1; “παῦροι ἐν πόνῳ πιστοί” Pi.N.10.78: freq. in Trag., “πόνος πόνῳ πόνον φέρει” S.Aj.866 (lyr.); “πόνον ἔχειν” Id.OC232 (lyr.), etc.: in pl., sufferings, A.Pr.66, 328, etc.; πόνους πονεῖν (cf. “πονέω” B.1.2); “διά τινα πόνους ἔχειν” Ar.Ec. 975 (lyr.); also of disease, “κατέβαινεν ἐς τὰ στήθη ὁ π.” Th.2.49; “πλευρᾶς πόνοι καὶ θώρακος καὶ ἥπατος” Dsc.1.2; ἰσχίων π. καὶ πλευρᾶς ib. 73.
2. [select] pain, esp. physical, “δύο π. ἅμα γενομένων, μὴ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον, ὁ σφοδρότερος ἀμαυροῖ τὸν ἕτερον” Hp.Aph.2.46, cf. Erot. s.v. πόνοι, Gal.17(2).699; “π. ἐν κεφαλῇ” Hp.Acut.(Sp.) 40; “ἐς τὰ ἄρθρα πόνοι” Id.Aph.4.44,45, cf. Sor.1.27, al.; “π. ἐς ἀμφοτέρας κνήμας” Hp. Epid.1.26.γ́, cf. δ́, al., LXX Ge.34.25; distd. from λύπη (pain in general), Alex.Aphr.Quaest.125.33; but sts. = λύπη, Epicur.Ep.3p.65U., Sent.Vat.4, Fr.442, Phld.Mus.p.72K.
III. [select] anything produced by work, a work, μελισσᾶν τρητὸς π., of honey, Pi.P.6.54; “ὑψηλὸς τεκτόνων π.” A.Fr.357, cf. E.Or.1570; ὁ ἐμὸς ὠδίνων π., of a child, Id.Ph.30; so, πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες, i.e. the nestlings, A.Ag.54 (anap.); τοὺς ἡμετέρους π. the fruits of our labour, X.An.7.6.9.
IV. [select] Πόνος personified as son of Eris, Hes.Th.226.
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