Μαινάδας
raving
Translated by Nick Nicholas30 Apr 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning them] raging, seeking to be in Bacchic frenzy, deranged.1
And Aristophanes [writes]: "if I'm not raging, then I must hate that man."2
And Aristophanes [writes]: "if I'm not raging, then I must hate that man."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μαινάδας· μαινομένας, ζητούσας βακχεύειν, παραφόρους. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· μισῶ τἄνδρ' ἐκεῖνον, εἰ μὴ μαίνομαι.
Betacode
*maina/das: mainome/nas, zhtou/sas bakxeu/ein, parafo/rous. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: misw= ta)/ndr' e)kei=non, ei) mh\ mai/nomai.
Notes (2)
- 1Likewise or similarly elsewhere: see the references at Photius, Lexicon mu33 Theodoridis. The headword occurs in the cited accusative plural in Euripides, Bacchae 224, 570, 1075, 1191. (For the singular, see mu 331.) ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 470 (
to\n a)/ndr' ), using the cognate verbmai/nomai . ↩
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