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Headword:
Mothônes
Adler number: mu,1188
Translated headword: mothons
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 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:Mothônes: para Aristophanei hoi euteleis: mothônas gar ekaloun tous parepomenous tois eleutherois paidas hoi Lakônes. esti de kai genos orchêseôs.
Notes:
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'.
Reference:
S. Hodkinson, Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (London and Swansea, 2000), 336 and n. 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; meter and music
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 14 July 2002@08:36:14.
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