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Headword: Aristulos
Adler number: alpha,3938
Translated headword: Aristylos, Aristylos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
He was a doer of shameful things.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "This would be terrible to hear: if Aristylos should love you and say you were his father."[2] And "Aristylos gaping." Aristophanes [again writes]: "And you, gaping [like] Aristylos, will say 'follow your mother, piggies!'"[3] He was a shameful poet, who was always gaping because of his shamelessness.
Greek Original:
Aristulos: aischropoios ên. Aristophanês: tout' êdê deinon akousai, ei se philêseien Aristulos, phaskôn autou pater' einai. kai Aristulos kechênôs. Aristophanês: su d' Aristulos hupochaskôn ereis, hepesthe mêtri choiroi. houtos aischros poiêtês, hos dia tên aischrourgian autou aei ekechênei.
Notes:
[1] A euphemism which needs a context to give it a precise meaning. (See e.g. Machon ap. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.582D (13.45 Kaibel), where -- pace LSJ s.v. -- it refers not to fellatio but to incest.) The particular vice of Aristyllos (sic) is generally assumed, from the passages about to be quoted, to have been coprophilia, though J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 185, nos.386-7, prefers fellatio.
[2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 645-7, abridged (web address 1 below).
[3] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 314-5 (web address 2), preceded by a comment from the scholia there; more follows. The Greek word for "piglets" was a euphemism for the female genitalia.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; gender and sexuality; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2001@23:10:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 31 July 2001@05:40:04.
David Whitehead (added note) on 25 August 2002@04:50:05.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; cosmetics) on 14 October 2005@17:40:38.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 2 January 2006@11:26:22.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 12 April 2012@06:16:29.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 14 January 2015@00:09:19.
David Whitehead (expanded a ref) on 14 January 2015@04:09:24.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 31 October 2015@23:17:42.

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