Μάνης
Manes
Translated by David Whitehead7 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A proper name of a slave.1 Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "but now [they think you] slaves, fools, Maneses".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μάνης· ὄνομα κύριον οἰκέτου. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι· νῦν δ' ἀνδράποδα, ἠλιθίους, Μάνας.
Betacode
*ma/nhs: o)/noma ku/rion oi)ke/tou. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: nu=n d' a)ndra/poda, h)liqi/ous, *ma/nas.
Notes (2)
- See also mu mu 147, mu 149.
- 1Besides 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...". ↩
- 2Aristophanes, 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". ↩
References
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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