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Headword:
*(ippo/porne
Adler number: iota,575
Translated headword: horse-whore
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Instead of 'super-whore'; [sc. used] rarely.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "and they say that Kallias the son of Hippofuckus fought at sea swathed in a lionskin of cunt-hair".[2] He made, on account of his licentiousness, a punning transformation of 'Hipponikos' to imply that he was whore-crazy. They employ 'horse' frequently in place of 'big': 'horse-whore'.[3] Kallias is lampooned continually as having frittered away his inherited wealth[4] and as being extremely crazy for women. [
Aristophanes] coins all manner of words in reference to his decadence.
*(ippo/porne: a)nti\ tou= megalo/porne: spani/ws. *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ *kalli/an ge/ fasi to\n *(ippobi/nou ku/sqou leonth=n naumaxei=n e)nhmme/non. paregramma/tise dia\ th\n a)se/lgeian para\ to\ *(ipponi/kou ei)s pornomanh=. to\ de\ i(/ppos pollaxou= e)pi\ tou= mega/lou lamba/nousin: i(ppo/porne. kwmw|dei=tai de\ o( *kalli/as pantaxou=, w(s spaqw=n th\n patrikh\n ou)si/an kai\ ma/lista e)pi\ gunaici\ memhnw/s. o)nomatopoiei= de\ pa/nta pro\s malaki/an au)tou=.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon iota186. (Headword and gloss are vocative singulars.) The headword is taken by Theodoridis to be quoted from
Menander,
Theophoroumene 19; this supersedes
Comica adespota fr. 1021 Kock (not in K.-A.), drawn from the present entry and the associated Aristophanic scholion: see below.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 428-430 (web address 1), followed by comment from the
scholia there.
[3] (See also
iota 571.) The quotation from
Aristophanes does not employ the headword, but the lexicographer's train of thought is perhaps as follows:
Aristophanes' joke name for Hipponikos is Hippobinos, translated here as 'Hippofuckus'. This name contains the element 'hipp-' which literally means 'horse' but which, in words like the headword, 'horse-whore', can simply connote 'big'.
[4] cf.
kappa 215.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 10 November 2002@11:14:53.
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