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μάν (man)

μάν is an Ancient Greek form of μήν, meaning “truly, indeed; month”. It is the particle.

Found 150 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.869: οὐ μὰν εὐκλειεῖς γε σὺν ὀθνείῃσι γυναιξὶν

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.14: … ρχηστάς τις ἢ πλοκεὺς πλοκάν, ἢ πᾶν γʼ ὁμοίως τῶν τοιούτων ὅ τι τὺ λῇς, οὔ χʼ αὑτὸς εἴη χἀ τέχνα, τεχνικός γα μάν.

Aeschylus, Eumenides 846: μᾶν δαναιᾶν θεῶν

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.