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μην-υ_τής , οῦ, Dor. μα_νυ_τάς , ᾶ, ὁ,
A.bringing to light, “μ. χρόνος” E.Hipp.1051.
II. Subst., one who brings information, “τοῖς μέλλουσιν ἀποθανεῖσθαι μ. γενέσθαι” Lys.12.32, cf. Jul.Or.5.167b: mostly in legal sense, informer, Th.1.132, etc.; as epith. of Heracles, Vit.Soph; “ἀδικήματος” Antipho 2.2.5; “μ. κατά τινος” Id.5.24, And.1.19, Lys.13.2; “κατὰ σαυτοῦ μ. ἐπὶ τοῖς συμβᾶσι γεγονώς” D.18.284; “τῶν ἀποκτεινάντων” Antipho 2.4.3; of a woman, Cratin.428.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 19
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 2.5
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 4.3
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 24
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 284
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1051
    • Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, 32
    • Lysias, Against Agoratus, 2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.132
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