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Headword:
Gruttos
Adler number: gamma,467
Translated headword: Gryttos, Gryttus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was one of those slandered for effeminacy. But some Grypos [i.e. spelled] with a pi; [he] who was a catamite. That is, a lecher.
Aristophanes [writes]: "I stopped the fuckers by wiping out Grypos."[1]
Greek Original:Gruttos: tôn epi malakiai diaballomenôn houtos ên. hoi de Grupon legousi dia tou p: hos ên katapugôn. êtoi lagnos. Aristophanês: epausa tous binoumenous ton Grupon exaleipsas.
Note:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 877 (web address 1 below), with comment from the
scholia there; cf. already
beta 288. The middle voice of
binei=n, as here, indicates pederastic fornication: see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 152 #209.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; gender and sexuality
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 July 2002@23:20:34.
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