(a) δορίαλλος or δόριλλος in Ar. (quote) is used of the female genitals, to insult the tragedian Dorillus.95Because of the shape (triangular, like an upside down delta) of his beard?
(b) δορύαλλος: the female genitals . . . referring to the tragedian Doryllus:
the women fence off their pussy shelleys
95 Or possibly Dorilaos; punning in any case on περίαλλος (loins).
(a) Etymologicum Genuinum AB
δορίαλλος· λέγεται καὶ δόριλλος. Ἀριστοφάνης· αἱ—φράγνυνται. ἔστι δὲ τὸ γυναικεῖον αἰδοῖον, ἐφ᾿ ὕβρει τραγῳδοποιοῦ Δορίλλου.
(b) Hesychius δ 2230
δορύαλλος· τὸ τῶν γυναικῶν μόριον . . . ἐφ᾿ ὕβρει τοῦ τραγῳδοποιοῦ Δορύλλου·
αἱ <δὲ> γυναῖκες τὸν δορίαλλον φράγυνυνται
Poetae Comici Fragmenta, Vol. III 2: Aristophanes, Testimonia et Fragmenta, edd. R. Kassel and C. Austin (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984), p. 211: See Jeffrey Henderson, The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 147-148 and 203, for proper names as slang for sex organs.
See also Paul Maas, "δορίαλλος. Aristophanes Λήμυιαι fr. 367 Kock," Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 58.1/2 (1930) 127-128.
