Μόθωνες

mothons

Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley14 Jul 2002Vetting: high3 revisions

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In Aristophanes [this term means] worthless men; for the Laconians used to call boys who attended on free men 'mothones'. It is also a kind of dancing.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μόθωνες· παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει οἱ εὐτελεῖς· μόθωνας γὰρ ἐκάλουν τοὺς παρεπομένους τοῖς ἐλευθέροις παῖδας οἱ Λάκωνες. ἔστι δὲ καὶ γένος ὀρχήσεως.

Betacode
*mo/qwnes: para\ *)aristofa/nei oi( eu)telei=s: mo/qwnas ga\r e)ka/loun tou\s parepome/nous toi=s e)leuqe/rois pai=das oi( *la/kwnes. e)/sti de\ kai\ ge/nos o)rxh/sews.

Notes

  1. See also mu 1187, sigma 630.
    See Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 279: 'you’re a mo/qwn, by nature a rascal'. The scholia to the line include an interesting, and probably more reliable, variant: 'the Laconians used to call boys who were brought up together with free men mo/qwnes'.

References


S. Hodkinson, Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (London and Swansea, 2000), 336 and n. 2

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μ1186Μόθοςbattle-din, tumultμ1187Μόθωνbastard, mothonμ1188Μόθωνεςmothonsμ1189ΜοθώνηMothoneμ1190Μοθωνίαimpudence
Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Feb 2014
  1. another x-ref — David Whitehead
  2. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — D. Graham J. Shipley

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