[A term for] the bacchants of Dionysus among Macedonians; those who were later called Mimal[l]ones from imitation [mi/mhsis].
*klw/dones: ai( *ba/kxai tou= *dionu/sou para\ *makedo/sin: ai( klhqei=sai u(/steron *mimalo/nes a)po\ th=s mimh/sews.
Broadly similar entry in other lexica, including
Hesychius kappa3062 and
Etymologicum Magnum 521.49-51. Accusative plural there, and in
Polyaenus 4.1.1. But irrespective of the case, the Suda's spelling with omicron as the second vowel is in fact unparalleled elsewhere. For
*Klw/dwnes see
Plutarch,
Alexander 2.7: 'all the women of these parts were addicted to the Orphic rites and the orgies of Dionysus from very ancient times, being called Klodones and Mimallones'.
cf.
eta 336 and
mu 1072.
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