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单词 mantinean
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Mantineann.adj.

Brit. /ˌmantɪˈniːən/, /ˌmantɪˈneɪən/, /manˈtɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌmæntəˈniən/, /ˌmæntəˈneɪən/, /mænˈtɪniən/
Forms: 1500s Mantynyan, 1600s 1800s Mantineian, 1600s– Mantinean, 1700s Mantinéan.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: proper name Mantinēa , -an suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin Mantinēa (transcription of ancient Greek Μαντίνεια ) Mantinea, the name of a city in Arcadia, ancient Greece + -an suffix, after Middle French Mantinien, noun (1545 in the passage translated in the quot. 1550 at sense A.). Compare post-classical Latin Mantineus, noun (a1457 in de Valla's translation of Thucydides), ancient Greek Μαντινεύς, noun, Μαντινικός, adjective. The form in -eian is after the Greek form.
Ancient History.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Mantinea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities
Thebienc1374
Spartiatec1384
myrmidonc1425
Spartanc1425
Phocianc1487
Argive?1532
Locrian1536
Locrensian1542
Achaean1550
Mantinean1550
Mytilenean1550
Tegeate1584
Pylian1585
Epidaurian?1589
Thessalian1608
Olympian1609
Sicyonian1642
Samothracian1653
Dorian1662
Attic1699
Tegean1709
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War v. f. 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.
1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre v. 335 A thousand Athenians..being come after the Battell to ayde the Mantineans.
1753 W. Smith tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War II. v. 180 Three thousand heavy-armed Eléans, as auxiliaries to the Mantinéans, came up.
1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xvii. 263 The Tegeans, and all those other Arcadians who had not, with the Mantineians, renounced the Lacedæmonian alliance.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. viii. 586 Sparta..drove back the Mantineians within their own limits.
1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. xiv. 349 Bachofen has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority..among the..Mantineans.
1900 J. B. Bury Hist. Greece viii. 327 The Mantineans..were never ready to join hands with their Tegeate neighbours.
1970 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 644/2 After the peace of 387 the Spartans obliged the Mantineans to dismantle their walls and live in villages.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Mantinea or its inhabitants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > ancient cities
Thebanc1374
Pylian1590
Argive1598
Mantinean1598
Mytilenean1724
Tegean1767
Mycenaean1842
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 38 Stratie, the faire Mantinean towne.
1858 M. Arnold Merope 50 He bade remember how we pass'd The Mantinean Sanctuary, forbid To foot of mortal.
1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives II. 22 The Argive and Mantinean auxiliaries, a thousand men at arms, openly declared that they had undertaken this distant maritime expedition for the sake of Alcibiades.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 374/2 In 370 [B.C.] Agesilaus tried to restore Spartan prestige by an invasion of Mantinean territory.
1968 V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates vii. 284 Sparta..made..an expedition to free the Parrhasians in Arcadia from Mantinean rule.
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 253 An expedition..was sent to detach the Parrhasi from Mantinea,..and to destroy a Mantinean fort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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