[He/she] might keep in mind.[1] Accented like this with a circumflex on the next to last syllable, as Herodian [says] in his
Homeric Prosody.
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "so that wearing my cloak he might remember me."[2]
[1] Optative of
μέμνημαι , third person singular, from the quotation which follows. For the verb, see also
mu 567,
mu 568.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 991 (web address 1) with scholion; cf. scholion A on
Homer,
Iliad 23.361. Aelius
Herodianus in
De prosodia catholica 3.1.463 discusses the accentuation; in other places, including
Περὶ Ἰλιακῆς προσῳδίας , he discusses why the vowel is
eta rather than
omega.
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