is likely enough, for a nickname, as it is called. [11] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. I. ch. 8., quotes from the “Phaon” of the Comic Poet Plato: τρίγλη—καὶ _στύματα μισεῖ_. (a mullet,—and hates erections). Comp. bk. VII. ch. 126. [12] The verb στύω (I erect the penis) occurs often in _Aristophanes_, e. g. “Acharnians” 1218., στύομαι (I have an erection), “Peace”, 727., ἐστυκότες (men with penes standing), “Lysistr.” 214., ἐστυκὼς (a man with penis standing), 598., στῦσαι (to make the penis stand), 869., ἔστυκα γὰρ (for my penis was standing); always in the sense of to make, or have, an erection. [13] _Suidas_ explains μάργος by μαινόμενος (being mad) and _Hesychius_ also by ὑβριστὴς (recklessly insolent), a word we have already learned from repeated examples to recognize as signifying unnatural lust. _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag., bk. II. ch. 1. p. 146., says: καὶ ἡ λαιμαργία, μανία περὶ τὸ λαιμόν, καὶ ἡ γαστριμαργία, ἀκρασία, περὶ τὴν τροφήν· ὡς δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα περιέχει, μανία ἐπὶ γαστέρα· ἐπεὶ μάργος, ὁ μεμῃνώς. (And gluttony, i. e. madness in connection with the gullet, and greediness, i. e. intemperance in connection with food, in other words as the name implies, madness as to the belly; for μάργος means a madman). [14] _Lucian_, Pseudologist. ch. 21., uses ἔργον (work) of the _Irrumator_ and _Fellator_. Similarly _Horace_, Epod. VIII. 19, says: fascinum Quod ut superbo provoces ab inguine, _Ore allaborandum_ est tibi. (a member ... that needs, for you to provoke it to rise from the unsympathetic groin, to be worked with your mouth). _Ovid’s_ phrase “dulce opus” (sweet task) and _Horace’s_ “molle opus” (gentle task) are familiar. Comp. _Hesychius_, s.v. ἀῤῥητουργία,—αἰσχρουργία, κακουργία, τὰ ἀῤῥητα ἐργάζεσθαι, (under the word ἀῤῥητουργία, infamous action,—base action, evil action, the performance of infamous tasks). [15] The word στόμαργος is found in _Sophocles_, in a passage where Electra says to Clytaemnestra (581): Κήρυσσέ μ’ εἰς ἅπαντας, εἴτε χρὴ, κακὴν, εἴτε _στόμαργον_, εἴτ’ ἀναιδείας πλέαν. Εἰ γὰρ πέφυκα _τῶνδε τῶν ἔργων_ ἴδρις σχεδόν τι τὴν σὴν οὐ καταισχύνω φύσιν. (Proclaim me to all, if need be, an evil woman, _foul-mouthed_ and full of shamelessness. For if I am cunning _in these tasks_, it is but that I am not far from sharing your own character). _Suidas_ under the word interprets στόμαργος here by φλύαρος (prating). _Philo_, De Monarchia bk. I. edit. Mangey, vol. II. p. 219., says: _στομαργίᾳ_ χρήσασθαι καὶ ἀχαλίνῳ γλώσσῃ, βλασφημοῦντας οὓς ἕτεροι νομίζουσι θεούς. (to indulge in _loose talking_ and an unbridled tongue, blaspheming such as other men hold to be gods). The _Etymologicum Magnum_ s. v. γλώσσαργον, _στόμαργον_ ἠ ταχύγλωσσον, (under the word idle-tongued,—_foul-mouthed_ or loose-tongued). Whereas _Aristophanes_ has the word στοματουργός, “Frogs” 848., ἔνθεν δὴ _στοματουργὸς_ ἐπῶν βασινίστρια λίσπη γλῶσσ’....