[Meaning] he is seeking in marriage.
*mna=tai: mnhsteu/etai.
The headword is the third person singular, present indicative, of the deponent verb
mna/omai. This form appears twice in
Homer, at
Odyssey 16.77 -- the
scholia to which provide the gloss here -- and 19.529 (web addresses 1 and 2).
same entry in
Photius (mu481 Theodoridis) and elsewhere.
Other forms of this verb appear in the Suda at
mu 1174 and
mu 1177.
cf. also
epsilon 990.
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