So _Strato_ in the distich (_Greek Anthology_ bk. I. tit. 72. No. 6.): Ἔστι Δράκων τὶς ἔφηβος, ἄγαν καλὸς· ἀλλὰ δράκων ὢν Πῶς εἰς τὴν τρώγλην ἄλλον _ὄφιν δέχεται_; (A certain youth there is, Draco (serpent) by name, very fair to see; but being a serpent, how comes it he _takes another snake_ into his hole?) _Aristophanes_, Eccles., 904., κἀπὶ τῆς κλίνης _ὄφιν_ εὕροις, (and on your bed may you find a _snake_), on which the Scholiast comments ὄφις—λαμβάνεται ἀντὶ τοῦ αἰδοίου οὐ τεταμένου δηλαδὴ, ἀλλ’ ἀνειμένου. (ὄφις—snake: to be taken as meaning the privy member,—not erect that is, but relaxed). So in the _Priapeia_, LXXXIII. 33., we find: licebit aeger, _angue_ lentior (will be reckoned as sick, slacker than a snake). [365] _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedagog., Bk. II. ch. 10., οὐδὲ τῶν κατεαγότων, τούτων δὴ τῶν τὴν κιναιδίαν τὴν ἄφωνον ἐπὶ τὰς σκηνὰς μετιόντων ὀρχηστῶν ἀποῤῥέουσαν εἰς τοσοῦτον ὕβρεως τὴν ἐσθῆτα περιορώντων. (nor yet of the debauchees, those dancers I mean that bring onto the stage cinaedia in pantomime, and suffer their costume to flow loosely to such a degree of indecency). [366] _Naumann_ (Schmidt’s Jahrbuch 1837. Vol. 13. p. 100.) says: Ἐναρέες, probably a Scythian word, calls to mind the dwarf _Anar_ or _Onar_ in the old Northern Mythology,—a eunuch in a sort, but who was nevertheless reverenced as father-in-law of Odin. (_J. Grimm_, “Deutsche Mythologie” (German Mythology). Göttingen 1835. p. 424). With this Hippocrates’ statement would agree, according to which these eunuchs were regarded by their countrymen with a reverence almost as if they had been gods.—As to this, first observe that it yet remains to be proved that the Scythian language belongs to the Indo-Germanic family, secondly that with Onar or Anar there is no question at all of a _non-man_ or actual _eunuch_, for Anar _begat a daughter on Notta_. This daughter, Jördh, was wife of Odin, making Anar Odin’s father-in-law. [367] Such a corruption of the word on the part of Herodotus is all the more likely, as it is clearly established by modern investigations (as indeed _Heyne_, loco citato, maintained long ago) that he never was in Scythia proper. Comp. _Herodoti Musae_, edit. _J. Ch. F. Baehr_, Vol. IV. Leipzig 1835., p. 395., and Vol. I. p. 455. _C. G. L. Heyse_, De Herodoti vita et intineribus Diss. (Dissertation on the Life and Journeys of Herodotus). Berlin 1826. 8vo. p. 104. [368] Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 530 D.