root *men- ‘act or be in a given mental state’

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Iliad 1.207

one of Watkin’s three passages where menos is used as a functional equivalent of mēnisThere are three Homeric contexts where the word menos ‘mental power’ seems to be the functiona ... Continue reading

Iliad 1.282

Here is one of the three Homeric contexts where menos ‘mental power’ seems to be a functional equivalent of mēnis ‘anger’. But note the further comments at cross-ref. I.01.207. Her ... Continue reading