[59] It is evident from this that Meier in his above mentioned Article on Paederastia is wrong in citing the expression αἰσχρουργὸς (worker of obscenities) as being used for the direct equivalent of _cinaedus_. Incidentally we would take this opportunity of further observing that the word παιδοκόραξ (boy-raven, i. e. a person ravenous after boys), which is also mentioned in the same Article as synonymous with _cinaedus_, is wrongly referred to paederastia, for it really, like the Latin _corvus_ (raven), signifies a _fellator_. Its true explanation is given in _Pliny_, Hist. Nat. bk. X. ch. 15., Corvi pariunt cum plurimum quinos. _Ore eos parere aut coire vulgus arbitratur._ (Ravens produce at most a brood of five each pair. _The vulgar believe these birds produce or copulate with the mouth)._—Aristoteles (De gen anim. Bk. III. ch. 6.) negat,—sed illam exosculationem, quae saepe cernitur, qualem in columbis, esse. (Aristotle denies this,—but adds that there is the same billing, which is often noticed, as with doves). Hence also _Martial_, bk. XIV. Epigr. 74., Corve salutator, quare fellator haberis? In caput intravit mentula nulla tuum. (You raven that salute your mate, why are you thought to be a _fellator_? No member ever penetrated into your head). Greek Anthology, bk. II. Tit. 9. 13., λευκὸν ἰδεῖν κόρακα (a white crow to all appearance). [60] Instead of ᾧ φαίνεται _Rost_ has proposed to read ὧν φαίνεται. (_Forbiger_, on the Hermaphrod. of Panormita, p. 281. Note b.) [61] _Brunck_, Analecta Vol. III. p. 334., Δημώναξ, μὴ πάντα κάτω βλέπε, μηδὲ χαρίζου τῇ γλώσση· δεινὴν χοῖρος ἄκανθαν ἔχει. Καὶ συζῇς ἡμῖν. _ἐν Φοινίκῃ δὲ καθευδεις_, κοὐκ ὢν ἐκ Σεμέλης μηροτραφὴς γεγόνας. (Demonax, be not for ever looking downwards, and be not complacent with your tongue; that organ—the _pudenda muliebria_—has a sharp thorn. And indeed you live with us, _but you sleep in Phoenicia_, and though no child of Semelé, are thigh-bred). [62] In particular it is the following Epigram in _Brunck’s_ Analecta that has given occasion to this explanation: Ἀλφειοῦ στόμα φεῦγε· φιλεῖ κόλπους Ἀρεθούσης. _πρηνὴς ἐμπίπτων ἁλμυρὸν ἐς πέλαγος._ (Fly the Alpheus’ mouth; he loves the bosom of Arethusa, _falling headlong into the salt sea_). Forbiger might have further cited the following passage from _Aristophanes_, Knights 1086, 87., ΑΛ. Καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῆς ἐρυθρᾶς γε θαλάσσης χὤτι γ’ἐν Ἐκβατάνοις δικάσεις, _λείχων_ ἐπίπαστα.