Αύτόλυκος α β' (fr. 69)

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Interpretation The sea-anemone is a polyp that attaches itself to the sea-bed
by means of an adhesive foot and feeds on small crustaceans, worms, fish and
the like. Cf. Ar. Lys. 549; Philippid. fr. 4 (a banquet catalogue); Archestr. fr.
11.7 with Olson-Sens 2000 ad loc:, Arist. HA 53la31—bl7, 590a27-32; Thompson
1957. 5-6; Davidson 1981. 218. Moeris a 133 (quoted in Citation context) shows
that Eupolis was simply using the normal Attic name (etymology unknown)
for the creature.
fr. 69 K.-A. (61 K.)
Phot, a 1716 = Suda a 2122
άναφλασμόν- τάΑφροδίσια.Εΰπολις Αύτολύκω. καιάναφλάν έλεγον (om.Phot.)
τό μαλάττειν τό αίδοϊον
μαλάττειν Phot. Suda : melius άναμαλάττειν (cf. Hsch. α 4498 = Phot, α 1593; Phot, φ
217 ~ EM p. 795.36-7) vel μάττειν
anaphlasmon: sex. Eupolis in Autolykos. They also used (“They used” omitted by
Photius) anaphlan to refer to making one’s penis soft
Discussion Kaibel ap. K.-A.
Citation context From the common source of Photius and the Suda conven-
tionally referred to as Σ", drawing on a lost lexicographer. Related material,
some of it overlapping and thus likely going back to the same source or set
of sources, is preserved at
- Poll. 2.176 τό δ’ έπεγείρειν αύτό τοϊν χεροϊν άναφλάν καί άνακνάν Αριστο-
φάνης έν Αμφιαράω (fr. 37) λέγει, εκαλείτο δέ καί τύλος τό αίδοϊον,
όθεν καί Φερεκράτης (fr. 227) τό γυρνούν αύτό τη χειρί άποτυλούν είπεν
(“Aristophanes in Amphiaraos (fr. 37) uses anaphlan and anaknan to mean
‘to excite (one’s penis) with one’s hands’. A penis is also called a tylos,
and Pherecrates (fr. 227) accordingly used apotyloun to refer to laying
it bare”—i. e. causing the head to emerge from the foreskin—“with one’s
hand”)
- Hsch. a 4498 = Phot, a 1593 άναπεφλασμένον· άνατεταμένον έχων τό
αίδοϊον. άναφλάν γάρ λέγουσιν Αττικοί τό άναμαλάσσειν τά αιδοία
(“ anapephlasmenon: having an erect penis. Because Attic-speakers use
anaphlan to refer to softening up their penises”) (traced by Theodoridis
to Diogenianus)