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mǽnan

  • verb
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mǽnan, to relate.
Wright's OE grammar
§134; §530;
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  • Scipia mǽnde (or under mǽnan to lament; III ?) his earfoða tó Rómána witum, þǽr hié æt hiera gemóte wǽron, hwý hié hiene swá unweorðne on his ylde dyden ; and ácsade hié for hwý hié nolden geþencan ealle þá brocu and þá geswinc þe hé for hira willan fela wintra dreógende wæs; and hú hé hié ádyde of Hannibales þeówdóme; and hú hé him tó þeówdóme gewylde . . . ealle Africe

    Scipionem pro concione de periculo salutis suae contestatum, quod sibi pro patria laborante ab ingratis denunciari cognovisset,

      Ors. 5, 4; S. 224, 24.
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