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Κάπρος · boar (κ 348) · Suda

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κ344smoky wine
κ345Capnias, Kapnias, Smokey
κ346smoke's shadow
κ347ovaries
κ348boar
κ349Erymanthian boar
κ350boaring, playing the boar
κ351Kapye, Capua
κ352Karian, Carian

Suda/Κ kappa/κ348

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Κάπρος

boar

Translated by David Whitehead28 Aug 2001Vetting: high3 revisions

comedy
definition
food
gender and sexuality
imagery
religion
+2
- women
- zoology

7 words

Translation

[A term] for the man's genital organ.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κάπρος· τὸ αἰδοῖον τοῦ ἀνδρός.

Betacode

*ka/pros: to\ ai)doi=on tou= a)ndro/s.

Notes

A misunderstanding by the lexicographer, or rather by his source, a scholiast on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 202: (one woman to another) "put this [bowl] down and take hold of the boar". Especially when accompanied by suitable gestures, demonstrative pronouns in comedy and elsewhere -- grasp this, look at that, etc. -- obviously lend themselves to simple sexual double entendre. Lines 181-239 of the Lysistrata, however, concern an oath by the conspirators, normally to be solemnized by a blood-sacrifice into a shield but here, for farcical purposes, by spurts from various containers of wine. In this context the "boar" -- a regular victim in such sacrifices -- is the jar of Thasian wine whose "slaughter" has been mentioned at line 196. (NB no instances of "boar" as a term with sexual innuendo are detected by J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 108-130.)

Linked from1 entry

λ198Λαίσκαπροςvery lustful[Meaning] one wno is lecherous.

Neighbouring entries

κ346Καπνοῦ σκιάsmoke's shadow κ347Καπρίαιovaries κ348Κάπροςboar κ349Κάπρος ἘρυμάνθιοςErymanthian boar κ350Καπρῶνταςboaring, playing the boar

Revision history3 revisions · last 27 Jan 2013

27 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
26 Aug 2003added keyword — David Whitehead
24 Aug 2003cosmetics — Catharine Roth
28 Aug 2001Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κάπρος (Adler number kappa 348), trans. David Whitehead, 28 Aug 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/348

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗