The man's genitals.[1]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "I would not take the hide of the elderly." And the old man says, "not even for a chickpea." That is, for a penis.[2]
It also means a pulse.[3]
See also
epsilon 2920.
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 801, where the headword occurs. See generally J.Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 119, #42.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1395-6 (Web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there (inappropriate in this context). In modern texts both of these lines are attributed to the chorus-leader.
[3]
Cicer arietenum. See generally R.Sallares,
The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World (London 1991) 30, 103, 301-2.
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