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Mantinean, n. and a.|mæntɪˈniːən|
Also 6 Mantynyan, 9 Mantineian.
[f. Gr. Μαντίνεια, L. Mantinea Mantinea.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Mantinea in Arcadia.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Mantinea or its inhabitants.
1550T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides' Hystory [Peloponnesian War] v. fol. 145 That the Argiues shulde make allyance wyth the Lacedemonyans, forsakinge the same, whyche they had concluded wyth the Athenyans, the Mantynyans and the Elyans. 1629Hobbes tr. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War v. 335 A thousand Athenians..being come after the Battell to ayde the Mantineans. 1753W. Smith tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War II. v. 180 Three thousand heavy-armed Eléans, as auxiliaries to the Mantinéans, came up. 1808W. Mitford Hist. Greece II. xvii. 263 The Tegeans, and all those other Arcadians who had not, with the Mantineians, renounced the Lacedæmonian alliance. 1846G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. viii. 586 Sparta..drove back the Mantineians within their own limits. 1877L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. xiv. 349 Bachofen has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority..among the..Mantineans. 1951J. B. Bury Hist. Greece (ed. 3) 327 The Mantineans..were never ready to join hands with their Tegeate neighbours. Ibid., The new synoecism of the Mantinean villages. 1968V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates vii. 284 Sparta..made..an expedition to free the Parrhasians in Arcadia from Mantinean rule. 1970Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 644/2 After the peace of 387 the Spartans obliged the Mantineans to dismantle their walls and live in villages. |