A proper name. Lysias says it.[1] They used to pick out two men at Athens to be purifiers of the city during the Thargelia [festival], one representing the men, one the women. That Pharmakos is [also] a proper name is clear: for he stole the sacred bowls of Apollo, was convicted, and was stoned to death by Achilles and his men -- events which what happens at the Thargelia are meant to imitate.[2] Istros tells the story.[3] When Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton says "so this is the man, the scapegoat, who will beg him off",[4] Didymus reckons that the word has a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable.[5] But for our part we cannot find this usage anywhere.
Demosthenes [sc. in the second speech] Against Stephanos said "being drugged".[6] Someone "being drugged" has been harmfully affected by drugs, as Theophrastus indicates in [book] 15 of Laws.[7]