In the Suda the headword noun, mnhmei=on, is used in the sense of a tomb in alpha 1935], sigma 182 (Alexander), mu 668] (Sulla) and pi 255 (Stesichorus); as a memorial of valor in tau 791. See also eta 555] and relevant entries in Hesychius (s.vv. gw=os, h(rw=|on, tu/mbos), and Etymologicum Gudianum (s.vv. ta/fos, tu/mbos). According to Aelius Dionysius (s.v. mnh=ma), the noun mnh=ma is confined to the meaning of tomb, whereas the noun mnhmei=on denotes more generally the memorial, the reminder, as in Thucydides (web address 1). See also Hesychius (s.v. mnhmei=a) and Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 49 (web address 2).
[1] For the use of the noun mnhmei=on in oratory see e.g. Isocrates 5.112 (web address 3), Demosthenes 45.79 (web address 4) and Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 147 (web address 5).
[2] Claudius Aelianus (c. AD 170-235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric at Rome (alphaiota 178). He was born at Praeneste, offspring of freedmen, and flourished under the reign of Septimius Severus (AD 192-211). He wrote in Greek and was admired for it; according to Philostratus, (Lives of the Sophists 624-5), "he wrote Attic as correctly as the Athenians in the interior of Attica" (trans. Wright: see below). Aelian's major works are De natura animalium, a collection, in 17 books, of brief and curious stories of natural history, and Varia Historia a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, maxims and descriptions, in 14 books. Aelian is quoted on no fewer than 247 occasions in the Suda; these quotations include references to two other works, *Peri\ *Pronoi/as and *Peri\ qei/wn e)nargei/wn. Also attributed to him is a collection of fictitious letters, the so-called Epistulae Rusticae, supposedly addressed to and by Attic farmers.
[3] Aelian fr. 40c Domingo-Forasté (37 Hercher). It is an anecdote according to which Artaxerxes III of Persia (reigned 358-338), also known as Ochus, after his conquest of Egypt in 343, demanded to dine off Apis, the bull-deity, the most important of the sacred animals of Egypt (see alpha 3201). One of Ochus' friends kicked the bull, as a result of which his foot gangrened and he eventually died -- and all his descendants carried on themselves a reminder of this punishment: a swollen foot and a difficulty at walking. For Artaxerxes III, see Diodorus Siculus 15.93, 16.40-52, 17.5.