[Meaning something] scarce, porous; or ascending, like a flame.[1] And the madman [mainomenos] [is] one who is not strong in the mind;[2] and manna gets its name from being worn through.[3]
"And when the reeds have become porous and saturated from much soaking, sprinkle them with wine and give them as food to the beasts of burden."[4]
*mano/n: a)raio/n, xau=non: h)\ a)nwfere/s, w(s flo/c. kai\ o( maino/menos, o( mh\ i)sxuro\s tai=s fresi/: kai\ h( ma/nna a)po\ tou= tetru/fqai w)no/mastai. manou\s de\ genome/nous tou\s kala/mous kai\ diu/grous e)k th=s a)/gan diabroxh=s katarrai/nein oi)/nw| kai\ dido/nai trofh\n toi=s u(pozugi/ois.
The headword, again
mu 158, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective
mano/s. (See also
nu 44.)
[1]
Aristotle,
Physics 216B and 217A, mentions that fire (
pu=r) is
mano/n, as do the attendant commentaries.
[2] This definition, alongside "scarce", is given in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon.
mano/s does not occur in such a sense in
Plato. (On the contrary, at
Timaeus 75C
Plato argues that a porous skull makes human life superior. Rather, this is an intrusion of a folk etymology of
mai/nomai "be mad" from
mano/s, given explicitly in ps.-
Zonaras, the
Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.
mani/a, and
Eustathius,
Commentary on Iliad 23.602.
[3] The entire definition up to here also occurs in
Photius mu95 Theodoridis. In
Photius, manna (
mu 129,
mu 130) is so called from being rubbed or threshed (
tetri/fqai) -- the connection to
mano/s being that it is ground finely. The
Etymologicum Gudianum instead derives it from
mai/w "ask for".
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
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