Kuna derein dedarmenên: to tou Pherekratous. schêma de estin akolaston eis to aidoion. eirêtai de epi tôn allo paschontôn authis eph' hois peponthasin hê paroimia.
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 158: "As
Pherekrates says [fr.179 Kock], to flay flayed skin" (see web address 1). The general import of the proverb (
Apostolius 10.29), on the lines of flogging a dead horse, seems clear enough (cf.
epsilon 384), but a sexual meaning is required in the play; line 158 comes in response to a question asking what the women will do (sc. for sex) if their husbands leave. J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 133 #117 and 222 #492 envisages generalized masturbation rather than, specifically, the use of a dildo, but he later reverses this preference (
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, edited with introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Henderson [Oxford 1987] 86).
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