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==Etymology==
The term
The ultimate source of ''manticore'' was [[Ctesias]], Greek physician of the Persian court during the [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid dynasty]], and is based on the testimonies of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India. Ctesias himself wrote that the ''martichora'' ({{lang|grc|μαρτιχόρα}}) was its name in Persian, which translated into Greek as ''androphagon''<ref name="aelian"/> or ''anthropophagon'' ({{lang|grc|ἀνθρωποφάγον}}),<ref name="photius-baehr-ed"/> i.e., "man-eater".<ref name="stoneman2021"/><ref name="lsj-martichoras"/>{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|That '''mantichora''' was otherwise known as '''''martiora''''', "which in the Persian tongue signifieth a devourer of men" was already pointed out by [[Edward Topsell]] in 1607.{{sfnp|White [1954]|1984|p=48n}} (for further information on Topsell's manticore, cf. ''infra.''}} But the name was mistranscribed as 'mantichoras' in a faulty copy of [[Aristotle]], through whose works the notion of the manticore was perpetuated across Europe.<ref name="robinson"/>▼
▲The ultimate source of manticore was [[Ctesias]], Greek physician of the Persian court during the [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid dynasty]], and is based on the testimonies of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India. Ctesias himself wrote that the ''martichora'' ({{lang|grc|μαρτιχόρα}}) was its name in Persian, which translated into Greek as ''androphagon''<ref name="aelian"/> or ''anthropophagon'' ({{lang|grc|ἀνθρωποφάγον}}),<ref name="photius-baehr-ed"/> i.e., "man-eater".<ref name="stoneman2021"/><ref name="lsj-martichoras"/>{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|That '''mantichora''' was otherwise known as '''''martiora''''', "which in the Persian tongue signifieth a devourer of men" was already pointed out by [[Edward Topsell]] in 1607.{{sfnp|White [1954]|1984|p=48n}} (for further information on Topsell's manticore, cf. ''infra.''}} But the name was mistranscribed as 'mantichoras' in a faulty copy of [[Aristotle]], through whose works the notion of the manticore was perpetuated across Europe.<ref name="robinson"/>
Ctesias was also later cited by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] regarding the ''martichoras'' or {{transliteration|grc|[[Androphagi|androphagos]]}} of India.<ref name="pausanias"/>
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