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μέριμναν (merimnan)

μέριμναν is an Ancient Greek form of μέριμνα, meaning “care, anxiety”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 343: μέριμναν ἕξουσʼ. ἀλλʼ ἴθʼ ἐς δόμους, γέρον.

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 27·2: … ν ἀνασπῶντα καὶ συνιστάντα τὸ πρόσωπον , ὥσπερ ἀντιταττόμενον τῷ Λυαίῳ θεῷ καὶ λύοντι τὸ τῶν δυσφόρων σκύνιον μεριμνᾶν κατὰ Πίνδαρον. ἔχει δὲ καὶ κίνδυνον ἡ ἀκαιρία μέγαν. ἀκροσφαλεῖς γάρ εἰσιν αἱ ψυχαὶ πρὸς ὀργὴν διὰ τὸν οἶνον, …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 44.8: [καλλόνᾳ] παίσαν κε με τᾶν μερίμναν

All forms of μέριμνα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.