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Aristophanes [writes]: "so does it seem to you that I would be hurt, master Hermes, if I banged Opôra after so long? -- No; not if you should drink a cup of pennyroyal potion."[1] Scholion: For those who eat a lot of fruit [opôran] after a long time are hurt as well as those who have non-stop sex. Therefore since Opôra appears also to be a prostitute, [Aristophanes] is playing on both [meanings]. With the beta [the word is] blêchônian.[2] But those who eat a lot of fruit, if they drink a pennyroyal potion, are not hurt, through the cardiac opening of the stomach being corroded by the juice. So that the pungency might be stopped, they used to take a [drink] of pennyroyal.
Also [sc. attested in the form] βληχωνίας , a cup.[3]

Βληχωνία: Ἀριστοφάνης: ἆρ' οὖν βλαβῆναι διὰ χρόνου τί σοι δοκῶ, ὦ δέσποθ' Ἑρμῆ, τῆς Ὀπώρας κατελάσας; οὔκ: εἴγε κυκεῶνος ἐπιπίοις βληχωνίαν. σχόλιον: καὶ γὰρ οἱ διὰ χρόνου ἐσθίοντες ὀπώραν πολλὴν βλάπτονται καὶ οἱ συνουσιάζοντες συνεχῶς. ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐδόκει ἡ Ὀπώρα καὶ πόρνη, πρὸς ἀμφότερα ἔπαιζε. διὰ τοῦ β βληχωνίαν. οἱ δὲ πολλὴν ὀπώραν ἐσθίοντες, ἐὰν βληχωνίαν πίνωσιν, οὐ βλάπτονται, διὰ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ ὀποῦ κατεσθίεσθαι τὴν καρδίαν. ἵνα οὖν ἡ δριμύτης ἀποστυφῇ, βλήχωνος ἐλάμβανον. καὶ Βληχωνίας, κυκεών.

[1] Aristophanes, Peace 710-12 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the scholia there; cf. delta 843, kappa 938. For pennyroyal, see already beta 338.
[2] Beta as opposed to gamma: cf. beta 338.
[3] See the Aristophanes passage above.

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