[HN Gopher] The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in...
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The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity
(1901 Edition)
Author : Petiver
Score : 10 points
Date : 2024-07-19 18:15 UTC (2 days ago)
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| romaaeterna wrote:
| ``` We learn misogynistic pejoratives like "meriochane", given to
| Cleopatra by Horace and company, which Rosenbaum translates as
| "the woman who gapes wide for ten thousand men" ```
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| Well, no. Rosenbaum discusses muokhane on pg. 14, a word found in
| Galen's Glossary of Hippocrates. Galen:
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| mu<r>iokhane* epitheton khaskouses. ei de muriokhaune graphoito,
| e epi muriois an eie khaunoumene.
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| My trans. "Muriochane/Muiochane: A name for a woman yawning. But
| if it is to be written 'thousand relaxer', it should be a woman
| who relaxes [ie., her legs] for a thousand."
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| This "yawn" or "yawn after something" can be similar in Greek
| usage to our "drool after."
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| The "Cleopatra" claim is internet garbage, nowhere in Rosenbaum,
| and I wonder if an AI summarizer picked it up from Reddit or
| something? All Rosenbaum does is quote Erotian in that
| discussion, who says "meriokhane onoma gunaikos," Meriochane is
| the name of a woman.
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| There's another related word from the Suda, musakhne, which it
| attributes to Archilochus as a reference (name for?) a
| prostitute.
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| Archive.org version with a better viewer. (Both sites have a PDF
| download.) https://archive.org/details/plagueoflustbein01rose
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