Caring for

Many of these verbs also take the accusative. With the accus. μεμνῆσθαι means to remember something as a whole, with the gen. to remember something about a thing, bethink oneself. The accus. is usually found with verbs of remembering and forgetting when they mean to hold or not to hold in memory, and when the object is a thing. Neuter pronouns must stand in the accus. ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι forget takes either the genitive or the accusative, λανθάνεσθαι (usually poetical) always takes the genitive. μέλει it is a care, ἐπιμέλεσθαι care for, μεμνῆσθαι think about may take περί with the genitive. οἶδα generally means I remember when it has a person as the object (in the accusative).

Remembering, Caring For (1356).—κακῶν μνήμονες mindful of crime A. Eum. 382, ἐπιμελὴς τῶν φίλων attentive to friends X. M. 2.6.35, ἀμνήμων τ ῶν κινδῡ́νων unmindful of dangers Ant. 2. α. 7; and, by analogy, συγγνώμων τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἁμαρτημάτων forgiving of human errors X. C. 6.1.37. So ἀμελής careless of, ἐπιλήσμων forgetful of.