Ἀποπάτημα

[Meaning] the same thing [as] dung. Eupolis in Golden Race [writes]: "for what is that man? A turd [and] a fox."¹ Cratinus in Runaway Slaves [writes]: "and when I found Kerkyon shitting on the vegetables this morning I throttled him."²
Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)popathso/menoi ["(they) going to shit"], [meaning] going to empty [themselves] of shit. But a pa/tos ["path"] [is] the road.³ Aristophanes [writes]: "no one sacrifices like they used to or even comes in [sc. to a temple], except the ten thousand and more who come to shit."⁴ For a)po/patos [is] the emptying of the stomach. And Aristophanes says about Kleonymos: "he went off for a shit and took his army and shat for eight months in golden mountains. -- How much time did it take to close his anus? -- An entire cycle of the moon."⁵