[Accented?] like Hermes.
Phales [nominative], *falh=tos [genitive].
Just as Homer joined together consternation with flight and said that it was its companion, “wondrous Panic possessed [the Achaeans]”, he said, “the companion of numbing fear”;[1] so too the Comic poet, taking the starting-point from there, said that Phales is companion to Dionysus;[2] for sexual pleasures accompany the Dionysiac drink [i.e. wine].[3]
Phalliones [are] those who campaign in honour of Dionysus to provoke laughter, called thus after the Dionysiac phalluses.[4] Later on they call them polliones, altering the word.