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mantica

mantica · f

a bag for the hand, wallet, cloak-bag, portmanteau

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Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

mantĭca — Lewis & Short

mantĭca, ae, f.manus,

I a bag for the hand, wallet, cloak-bag, portmanteau: mantica cui (mulo) lumbos onere ulceret, Hor. S. 1, 6, 104: umero exuere, to take off from the shoulder, App. M. 1, p. 110, 27.—Prov.: non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est, i. e. do not learn to know ourselves, Cat. 22, 21 (acc. to the fable, Phaedr. 4, 10, 1); cf.: ut nemo in sese temptat descendere, nemo, sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo, Pers. 4, 24 Gildersleeve ad loc.

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Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mantica (scan p. 409; entry #6522).

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