Saturday, April 02, 2022
Source of Pride
Archilochus, fragment 247 West, preserved by Eustathius, commentary on Homer, Iliad 11.385 (tr. Laura Swift):
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They say that Aristotle claimed that 'delighting in your horn' meant Paris was proud of his penis... and it seems that when the scorpion-tongued Archilochus called the penis a 'soft horn', this was where he got the expression from.Related post: The Best Part of a Man.
Ἀριστοτέλης δέ, φασί (Arist. Pseudepigraphus p. 166 Rose), κέραι ἀγλαὸν (Il. 11.385) εἶπεν ἀντὶ τοῦ αἰδοῖο σεμνυνόμενον...καὶ ἔοικεν ὁ σκορπιώδης τὴν γλῶσσαν Ἀρχίλοχος ἁπαλὸν κέρας τὸ αἰδοῖον εἰπών, ἐντεῦθεν τὴν λέξιν πορίσασθαι.
