Laudator Temporis Acti

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Scholia in Lucianum, ed. Hugo Rabe (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1906), p. 121 (on Lucian, Alexander 4; = Aristophanes, fragment 242; = Cratinus, fragment 160; my translation):

Aristodemus was foul and lewd in the extreme, whence the arsehole is also called Aristodemus.

ὁ Ἀριστόδημος δὲ μιαρὸς καὶ καταπύγων ἐς ὑπερβολήν, ἀφ᾿ οὗ καὶ ὁ πρωκτὸς Ἀριστόδημος καλεῖται.

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Hesychius α 7248 ( = Poetae Comici Graeci, Vol. VIII: Adespota, edd. R. Kassell and C. Austin [Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995], p. 96, fragment 283; my translation):

The comic poets used to call the arsehole Aristodemus and Theodorus and Timesianax, after male prostitutes.

Ἀριστόδημον οἱ κωμικοὶ τὸν πρωκτόν καὶ Θεόδωρον καὶ Τιμησιάνακτα ἔλεγον, ἀπὸ τῶν ἡταιρηκότων.

Attributed to the Λέξις κωμική of Didymus Chalcenterus by Moritz Schmidt, Didymi Chalcenteri Grammatici Alexandrini Fragmenta Quae Supersunt Omnia (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1854), p. 78, fragment 47.

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Hesychius ε 3839 ( = Poetae Comici Graeci, Vol. VIII: Adespota, edd. R. Kassell and C. Austin [Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995], p. 107, fragment 337; my translation):

Execestus: a male prostitute, whence they also used to call arseholes by analogy Excestuses.

Ἐξήκεστος· ἡταιρηκώς. ὅθεν καὶ τοὺς πρώκτους ὁμωνύμως Ἐξηκέστους ἔλεγον.

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Harpocration, Lexicon in Decem Oratores Atticos, ed. ‎Wilhelm Dindorf, Vol. I (Oxford: E Typographeo Academico, 1853), p. 72 (= Eupolis, fragment 92; my translation):

Eupolis calls the arsehole Batalus.

Εὔπολις δὲ τὸν πρωκτὸν Βάταλον λέγει.

Cf. Scholia in Aeschinem, ed. M.R. Dilts (Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1992), p. 45 (on Aeschines 1.126; my translation):

There are those who call the arsehole Batalus.

εἰσὶ δ᾿ οἳ Βάταλον προσηγόρευον τὸν πρωκτὸν.

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See Jeffrey Henderson, The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 203.