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===Some Hipponactean sayings=== *"There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one carries out her dead body." ({{lang|grc|δύ᾿ ἡμέραι γυναικός εἰσιν ἥδισται, ὅταν γαμῇ τις κἀκφέρῃ τεθνηκυῖαν}})<ref group="nb">(Attribution to Hipponax is not accepted by all scholars—Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 405</ref><ref group="nb">[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Palladas+of+Alexandria+on+women-a0221920139 A variant of these lines] was used nearly a thousand years later by [[Palladas]]</ref> *"drank like a lizard in a privy."<ref>Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 481</ref> *"croaking like a raven in a privy."<ref>B. M. Knox, 'Elegy and Iambus: Hipponax' in ''The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature'', P. Easterling and B. Knox (eds.), Cambridge University Press (1985), page 162</ref> *"sister of cow manure"<ref>Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 471</ref> *"opening of filth...self-exposer" ({{lang|grc|βορβορόπιν...ἀνασυρτόπολιν}})<ref group="nb">Descriptions of a woman, recorded by Suda:<br>"Hipponax calls her 'opening of filth' as one who is impure, from {{lang|grc|βορβορος}} (filth), and 'self-exposer' from {{lang|grc|ἀνασύρεσθαι}} (to pull up one's clothes)."—cited and translated by Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 467</ref> *"Mimnes, you who gape open all the way to the shoulders." ({{lang|grc|Μιμνῆ κατωμόχανε}}):<ref group="nb">Mimnes was a painter, here addressed hyperbolically as a sodomite (wide-arse, or {{lang|grc|ευρύπρωκτος}}, ''euryproktos'', in this case gaping all the way to the shoulders)—cited and translated by Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 375</ref> *"interprandial pooper" ({{lang|grc|μεσσηγυδορποχέστης}})<ref group="nb">A comic word coined by Hipponax, defined by [[Suetonius]] in ''On Defamatory Words'' as "...one who often retires to defecate in the midst of a meal so that he may fill himself up again."—cited and translated by Douglas Gerber, ''Greek Iambic Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 437</ref>
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