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HESIOD, Ε+Η, 582 BUT WHEN THE ARTICHOKE FLOWERS, AND THE CHIRPING GRASS-HOPPER SITS IN A TREE AND POURS DOWN HIS SHRILL SONG CONTINUALLY FROM UNDER HIS WINGS IN THE SEA SON OF WEARISOME HEAT... WOMEN ARE MOST WANTON, BUT MEN ARE FEEBLEST... 589 BUT AT THAT TIME LET ME HAVE A SHADY ROCK AND WINE OF BIBLIS ARCH 43: EUST.IN.HO.OD.8.335: ΚΗΛΩΝ and ΛΑΓΝΗΣ and ΟΙΦΟΛΗΣ and ΤΙΤΑΝ and ΜΑΧΛΟΣ: these words are

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used by the ancients who say that ΚΗΛΩΝ comes from asses kept for breeding purposes. Cf. Archilochus, ΩΣΤ’ONOY ΠΡΙΗΝΕΩΣ ΕΠΛΗΜΥΡΟΝ (“and his dick was filling up like a lusty don key from Priene”)

(“leave off Paros” the poet is, then, saying to himself)

or even to the reader, that is, ourselves. Moreover, the imperative may signify the overturning of a given state of affairs: “leave off (the place you now inhabit)”, but it may also convey acquiescence, acceptance of an event that’s already been, acceptance of the inevitable to come. Ἔα: the first word sets the fragment’s tone Give up what’s no good for you, Or, on the contrary, Say goodbye though you don’t want to Say goodbye because you must. Second word: Πάρον What needs to be left behind is Paros island.Third word, as well as sixth: Καὶ/And. Coordinating conjunction. It connects Paros with those figs and with sea life. Twice uttered it also means: not only, but.

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Schol.Atatus 1009: διακινοῡσι δὲ τὰς πτέρυγας ἤτοι ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς, τἡν κοίτην καταλαβόντες, ἤ τήν ἐκ τοῡ ἀέρος διατινάσσοντες ἱκμάδα καὶ παρ’ Ἀρχίλοχῳ, ἡ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς σαλευομένη κόρη ὣσπερ κηρύλος πέτρης ἐπῑ προβλῆτος ἀπτερύσσετο. “like the kingfisher shaking his wings on the upright rock was the maiden writhing with pleasure”. and his dick was filling up like a lusty donkey’s from Priene well fed on ample barley the froth spilled down our jaws and down our legs πόρνη

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Ἔα Πάρον καὶ σῦκα Fourth word: σῦκα

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Σῦκον/Fig- the fruit of the fig tree. But also σῦκον- the female vagina, According to the dictionary, With a reference to Aristophanes: Τοῦ μὲν μέγα καὶ παχύν, τῆς δὲ ἡδὺ τὸ σῦκον

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from inside her periwinkle I know of a different cure for this swelling to screw it onto a woman

(His is large and thick and her fig is sweet)

Ἔα Πάρον καὶ σῦκα κεῖνα Fifth word: κεῖνα/those Ἔα Πάρον καὶ σῦκα κεῖνα Ionian idiom for the pronoun εκείνa. Demonstrative pronoun signifying distance in space or time of the person or object previously spoken of. Not just: the figs but those figs, there rather than here. Those figs, with the emphasis on those, those ones over there, which are here no longer those ones which he is looking at from afar, those he’s thinking of and misses already those bygone ones, or, by reversing, those he no longer has an appetite for, those ones that gave him grief, the Fifth word κεῖνα, full of vigor, reinforces the tone and the timbre through the ε and the α Seventh word: Θαλάσσιον Θαλάσσιον, adjective, of the sea-thalassa Eighth : βίον Bίος/Life. The way one lives. Bίος θαλάσσιος, is the life of the sea, the way in which one lives by the sea, the way one makes a living from it. Through a richness of tone and timber, either the vaginal figs -the erotic life- refer to sea life, those there stupid old figs. Alongside the First word, ἔα,

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and through my pipe into her vessel what sprouts between our thighs Although the heart of each is cured by a different one humans differ in their nature/character Eust.in Hom.Il. 11.385: And it seems that when the scorpi- on-tongued Archilochus called the penis, a soft horn, he de- rived the expression from there. V.test.3 ὁ Διόνυσος τ[ Dionysus t[ ΑΛΛ’ ΑΛΛΟΣ ΑΛΛΩΙ ΚΑΡΔΙΗΝ ΙΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ

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ουλαστυαζ[ unripe[ ὄμφακες α[ grapes[ σῡκα μελ.[ honeyed figs 2 [ Οἰφολίωι ερ[ Oipholios 3

its joys and its tribulations or else, the figs are eaten, and the edible fruit of late summer connects to the sea life as sustenance. Σ Κ Ι Η Π Ε Τ Ρ Α Ι Η

2. Grapes and figs may be sexual metaphors for young or small breasts and vαginas. 3. Presumably an epithet of Dionysus and derived from the root -oiph, denot- ing sexual intercourse.