Ἐσκιμάλισεν

[Meaning he/she/it] was insulting by joining the thumb to the middle finger and striking it.¹ Or meaning gave the finger: for to flip off is strictly speaking to insert the middle finger into the anus of a bird.² Not only this, but also when people want to humiliate someone they extend their middle finger, drawing the rest together, and show it to him. Aristophanes [writes]: "[...] and how he flipped off the spear-maker."³