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Headword:
Amunias
Adler number: alpha,1677
Translated headword: Amynias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
Or someone ready to defend himself [
a)mu/nesqai].[2]
"But rather [stupid is] Amynias the son of Swank, the man whose forbears wore their hair in buns." [So says]
Aristophanes [and goes on]. "This man I once saw dining with Leogoras,[3] instead of [his present fare of] an apple and a pomegranate; for [now] he is as hungry as Antiphon.[4] What is more he went as an ambassador to
Pharsalos, and there he alone mixed with the Thessalian serfs alone - he himself being a serf second to none."[5]
Amunias: onoma kurion. ê ho hetoimos amunesthai. all' Amunias ho Sellou mallon, ouk tôn krôbulôn. Aristophanês. houtos, hon egô pot' eidon anti mêlou kai rhoias deipnounta meta Leôgorou. peinêi gar, êper Antiphôn. alla presbeuôn gar es Pharsalon ôichet': ekei monos monois tois penestaisi xunôn tois Thettalois, autos penestês ôn elattôn oudenos.
Notes:
[1] That of Amynias, son of Pronapes, a butt of Attic comedy in the 420s BC. See generally J.K. Davies,
Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 471.
[2] This is the gloss of the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 570 (web address 1 below), where the noun
a)muni/as is used impersonally. See again at
eta 515.
[3] See
lambda 259 (a rich man known for high living).
[4] Not an uncommon name, but probably
alpha 2745 is meant.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1267-1274 (web address 2 below). On the Thessalian penestai, akin to the Spartan helots, see
pi 962.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 March 2001@08:32:14.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented and rearranged notes; added keywords; cosmetics) on 23 March 2001@11:00:30.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, updated links) on 22 October 2011@00:54:32.
Catharine Roth (added betacode) on 22 October 2011@23:19:12.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 February 2012@08:43:02.
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