NOMINA CELTICA I CATAMANTALOE DIS, DOCNIMARUS, SATIGENUS
BY
D. Ellis EVANS
1. Catamantaloedis
The reading Catamantaloedis (gen.) for the difficult name of the Sequanian leader cited by Caesar in BG 1.3, 4 is probably the correct one in spite of the attestation of variant forms1. What has occasioned much difficulty is the ending -(o)edis (or -(o)hedis), although there is also, in my opinion, little or no certainty concerning the correct interpretation of both the first element caia-(or canta-?)2 and the second -mantal(o )-s. It may be worth considering the possibility that we have here a Celtic name compounded of three elements, namely cata-manlalo-(u)ed -4. This
1. Three of the four manuscripts now regarded as primary by Hering, viz. BTU, show a form in -tnanlaloedis. A (also O, derived from A) shows -mantalohedis. For details about variant readings and various opinions concerning the name see my Gaulish Personal Names : a Study of some Continental Celtic Formations [abbr. GPN ] (Oxford, 1967) 67-9.
2. Attested in T (through anticipation of -ant-in the third syllable ?). For various forms in cant-see most recently Hubschmid, Thes. Praerom. 2. 82 ff. ; Guyonvarc’h, Og. 18, 1966, 502 ff. ; Evans, GPN 314, n. 8. See also especially (beside literature cited in GPN 67, n. 3) Bynon’s comment in TPliS 1966, 81. [For most of the abbreviations used in these notes see GPN xi ff.].
3. On mani-(as in Ibero-Lat.( ?) mantum ' cloak ’ Isid. 19. 24, 15) see now (beside W.-H. 2. 32 f., Whatmough, DAG 158, 178) Hubschmid, op. cit. 2. 123 f., also Wild, KZ 80, 1966, 247 f. See further (beside GPN 69, with n. 3) M. Lourdes Albertos Firmat, La onomàstica personal primitiva de Hispania Tarraconense y Bética [abbr. OPT B] (Salamanca, 1966) 147. For Bret, -mani-, -mani ( : IE. * men -'penser’) see Fleuriot, DGVB 150, 251, 333.
4. For a selection of examples of various names showing three elements see Schmidt, KGP 70 ff.
