Friday, August 27, 2021
Hilaon
Aristophanes, fragment 567 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson)
On Google Books, I can only see one page dealing with this fragment in Andreas Bagordo, ed., Fragmenta Comica: Aristophanes fr. 487-589
(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020 = Fragmenta Comica 10.8), p. 161:
I don't have access to Hans Herter, De Dis Atticis Priapi Similibus (Bonn: Scheur, 1926).
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Hilaon: a hero, son of Poseidon, after whom Ar. in Triphales called penises "Hilaons" as being excessively large, as if he were to say "Tityuses" or the like; others say he was a priapic god.Poetae Comici Fragmenta, Vol. III 2: Aristophanes, Testimonia et Fragmenta, edd. R. Kassel and C. Austin (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984), p. 292:
Ἱλάων· ἥρως, Ποσειδῶνος υἱός, οὗ Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Τριφάλητι Ἱλάονας ἔφη τοὺς φάλητας μεταφέρων, ὡς ὑπερβάλλοντας τῷ μεγέθει, ὡσεὶ ἔλεγε Τιτυοὺς ἤ τινας τοιούτους. ἄλλοι δὲ θεὸν πριαπώδη φασίν.
