Meaning that he has a diseased shin. For Laispodias and Damasias used to be ridiculed for being bad-shinned. Thucydides in [book] 8 says that this Laispodias was also a general.[1] He was also litigious. He also had certain things wrong with his shins, for which reason he used to wear his cloak [wrapped] round his legs. Alternatively, according to the dictionary of Ixion, [the headword means someone] of unrestrained sexual appetite, leading him to fuck [spodein] even farm-animals.