APPENDIX C΄ ON DEPILATION: BODY COSMETICS IN CLASSICAL ...

564 APPENDIX C΄
ÁÏáÙÙ·Ó ÌÂÁ¿ÏËÓ, apple˘ÁcÓ ÌÈÎÚ¿Ó,
ˆÏÉÓ ÌÂÁ¿ÏËÓ, „‹ÊÈÛÌ· Ì·ÎÚfiÓ,
etc.
Following the right education the lad will be broad shouldered and
with a glistening, smooth, shiny, marble-arched breast. He will be,
naturally, reticent. The contrast apple˘ÁcÓ ÌÂÁ¿ÏËÓ, applefiÛıËÓ ÌÈÎÚ¿Ó -
apple˘ÁcÓ ÌÈÎÚ¿Ó, ΈÏÉÓ ÌÂÁ¿ÏËÓ is instructive. applefiÛıË is, here, the
whole penis, and the same is the ΈÏÉ, at least here. (Certainly ΈÏÉ
signifies the membrum virile in Nubes, 989, too. And this is what
normally it should mean in general, since ÎáÏÔÓ is a member,
particularly one with obvious physical self-circumscription, as the
hands or the legs. Thus, e.g., Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, III, 54 has:
Á›ÓÂÛı·È ÁaÚ [sc. ÙeÓ ôÓıÚˆappleÔÓ] ÙÂÙÚ¿appleÔ˘Ó ‚Ú¤ÊÔ˜ ùÓÙ· ÙÔÖ˜ Ù¤Ù-
Ù·ÚÛÈÓ ç¯Ô‡ÌÂÓÔÓ ÎÒÏÔȘ. The membrum virile could easily fall
under this head, especially since Έϋ ordinarily meant probably
rump. V. Athenaeus IX, 368, d-f and the passages there quoted. See
particularly the description in Xenophon’s Cynegetica V, 30 (repeated
by Pollux, V, 69). So the youth with old-fashioned gymnastic
formation will have full buttocks (especially attractive in anal coition)
and small unattended penis; whereas the boys now (Ôî ÓÜÓ), among
other bodily defects have small sized buttocks and a large from
overworking membrum. The old idea is of a boy being âÚÒÌÂÓÔ˜, not
of one continuously labouring under a lewd obsession with ÌÂÌ·Ï·ÎÈ-
Ṳ̂ÓËÓ pleasure. In this context, we come finally to the point
immediately concerning us. The youth with the right gymnastic
upbringing will have forever (àÂd) ¯ÚÔÈaÓ Ï¢΋Ó. (Naturally some
ancient critical philologists Alexandrian, no doubt were displeased
with Ï¢ÎfiÓ for they corrected it to Ï·ÌappleÚfiÓ. Just as they did to Iliad
Ξ, 185, as noted above, p. 15). And this is contrasted to the è¯Úa
¯ÚÔÈ¿ (paleness) of the one devoting himself to the labours of illiberal
learning on the one hand, or to the teaching of life (as we might put it)
in the market place on the other. More neat expression of our point
could not have been desired.
§Â˘ÎfiÙ˘ is far from incompatible with gymnastic exercise,
athletics and other liberal, aristocratic toil. The dark skinned become
the labourers, the mercenaries of life, those who sell their labour or the
material things produced by their labour, those who do what they do