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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2005-08-06 10:22 am
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Word of the day

Today's word is the classical Greek aporhaphanidosis, the practice of stuffing a radish up the arse of one caught in adultery.

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Even the erudite Dr. Davidson doesn't provide statistics on the subject. I rather doubt it as Athenian adulterers usually compounded with the aggrieved husband for a large cash payment, not entirely surprising since the husband also had the right to kill the errant swain.
ext_6283: Brush the wandering hedgehog by the fire (Default)

[identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Godsend to comic dramatists though, I should think (though after a bit I imagine they got marked down for including inevitable radish jokes)