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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]

*)amuni/as: o)/noma ku/rion. h)\ o( e(/toimos a)mu/nesqai. a)ll' *)amuni/as o( *se/llou ma=llon, ou)k tw=n krwbu/lwn. *)aristofa/nhs. ou(=tos, o(\n e)gw/ pot' ei)=don a)nti\ mh/lou kai\ r(oia=s deipnou=nta meta\ *lewgo/rou. peinh=| ga/r, h)/per *)antifw=n. a)lla\ presbeu/wn ga\r e)s *fa/rsalon w)/|xet': e)kei= mo/nos mo/nois toi=s pene/staisi cunw\n toi=s *qettaloi=s, au)to\s pene/sths w)\n e)la/ttwn ou)deno/s.

[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.

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.
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