Note 380 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 3)

Eustathius, Commentar. in Homer., Iliad 1680. 44., Stark cites merely the figures. We can clearly see the meaning of γύννιδες in the following passage of Clement of Alexandria, Paedag., bk. III. ch. 3. p. 227, τί τοίνυν οὐκ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύσειαν αἱ γυναῖκες, αἱ εἰς μαχλοσύνην σπεύδουσαι, τοιαῦτα τολμῶσιν ἐνοποριζόμεναι τοῖς ἀνδράσιν; μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἄνδρας βατάλους δὲ καὶ γύννιδας καλεῖν τούτους χρή· ὧν καὶ αἱ φωναὶ τεθρυμμέναι καὶ ἡ ἐσθὴς τεθηλυμμένη ἁφῇ καὶ βαφῇ· δῆλοι δὲ οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἐλεγχόμενοι τὸν τρόπον ἔξωθεν ἀμπεχόνῃ, ὑποδέσει, σχήματι, βαδίσματι, κουρᾷ, βλέμματι. Ἀπὸ ὁράσεως γὰρ ἐπιγνωσθήσετο ἀνὴρ, ἡ Γραφὴ λέγει κ. τ. λ. (What then would not women practise, such women as run into wantonness, rivalling the men that dare such abominations? but these men ought we not rather to call batali (cinaedi) and womanish fellows? whose voices are broken languishingly and their dress fashioned like women’s in texture and colour. Now such-like men are clearly manifest in outward appearance for what they are by their show, and their foot-gear, by their bearing, and walk, and hair, and glance. For by the eyes shall a man be known, says the Scripture, etc.). The word batalos meaning cinaedus is found also in Aeschines, In Timarch., p. 139, 163, 142. De legatione falsa, p. 273. Harpocration under the word, conjectured that the Cinaedi were called for the same reason that e. g. Eupolis ὁ πρωκτός (the wide-bottomed) was called βάταλος; and Plutarch also, Vita Demosth. 4 Schol. Aeschin. p. 742., Etymolog. Magnum, 190. 20., agrees in same idea. Comp. Schäfer, Apparat. Crit. ad Demosthen., I. 875. Moreover this was the nickname of Demosthenes (De Corona 288. 18.). At any rate this passage of Clement of Alexandria tells in favour of the possibility of recognizing Pathics by their exterior!