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Headword: *maina/das
Adler number: mu,328
Translated headword: raving
Vetting Status: high
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]
Greek Original:
*maina/das: mainome/nas, zhtou/sas bakxeu/ein, parafo/rous. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: misw= ta)/ndr' e)kei=non, ei) mh\ mai/nomai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise 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.)
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 470 (to\n a)/ndr'), using the cognate verb mai/nomai.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 30 April 2009@07:35:13.
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