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1. mĭna (mna, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 107), ae, f., = μνᾶ.

  1. I. A Greek weight of a hundred Attic drachmas, a mina, Plin. 21, 34, 109, § 185; Rhem. Fann. de Ponder. 32 sq.
  2. II. A Greek money of account.
    1. A. The silver mina; this was of 100 Attic drachmae or Roman denarii (about $18.05 of our currency): argenti, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 16; id. Poen. 2, 21; 5, 5, 8 al.
      Also absol.: mina, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 2; id. Ps. 3, 2, 87; id. Poen. 5, 6, 22 al.; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91; id. Leg. 2, 27, 68: minae bonae mala opera partae, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144.
    2. B. Auri, the mina of gold, of five times the value of the silver one: alia opust auri mina, Plaut. Truc. 5, 44; id. Mil. 5, 27.

mna, ae, v. mina.

Mnasĕas, ae, m., = Μνασἐας, an author who wrote De Re Rustica, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 9; Col. 1, 1, 9; Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 38.

Mnēmon, ŏnis, m., = Μνήμων (having a good memory).

  1. I. A surname of king Artaxerxes, Nep. Reg. 1, 3.
  2. II. A Roman surname, Inscr. Mur. 819, 2.

Mnēmŏnĭdes, um, f., the Muses, daughters of Mnemosyne, Ov. M. 5, 268; 280.

Mnēmŏsynē, ēs, f., = Μνημοσύνη (remembrance).

  1. I. The mother of the Muses, Ov. M. 6, 114; Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 54; Phaedr. 3 prol. 18: natae Mnemosynes, the Muses, Aus. Ep. 4, 64.
  2. II. In plur.: Mnēmŏ-synae, ārum, f., the Muses, Aus. Idyll. 11, 30.

mnēmŏsȳnon, i, n., = μνημοσυνον, a memorial: mnemosynon mei sodalis, Cat. 12, 13.

Mnēsarchus, i, m., = Μνήσαρχος.

  1. I. Acc. to some, the father of Pythagoras, App. Flor. 2, p. 55 Oud.
  2. II. A Stoic philosopher, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 45; 1, 18, 83 al.

1. mnēster, ēris, m., = μνηστήρ, a wooer, suitor, pure Lat. procus: ad mnesteras, Hyg. Fab. 126.

2. Mnēster, ēris, m., a Roman surname: M. Lepidus Mnester, a pantomime, favorite of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 36; 55; 57.

Mnestheus (dissyl.), ĕi and ĕōs, m., = Μνησθεύς, a Trojan: Mnesthea vocat, Verg. A. 4, 288.
On account of the metre, also Menestheus (trisyl.): fratre Menestheo, Verg. A. 10, 129.

Mnēvis, ĭdis, m., = Μνεῦις, a black ox consecrated to the sun-god at Heliopolis: Mnevidis regia, Plin. 36, 8, 14, § 65; cf. Macr. S. 1, 21; Amm. 22, 14, 7.