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Headword:
Μάνης
Adler number: mu,146
Translated headword: Manes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name of a slave.[1]
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "but now [they think you] slaves, fools, Maneses".[2]
Μάνης: ὄνομα κύριον οἰκέτου. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι: νῦν δ' ἀνδράποδα, ἠλιθίους, Μάνας.
Notes:
[1] Besides the comic instance about to be cited, see e.g.
Demosthenes 45.86: "never mind if [your slaves] are each
Syros or Manes or whatever...".
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 523 (web address 1). Dunbar 359-60 finds the transmitted text here "metrically objectionable" and follows C19 scholars in telescoping it to "but now Maneses".
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@03:51:57.
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