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masturbate (Liddell-Scott-Jones, meaning 5 = 'sens. Hicks' 'behaving indecently' in Greek is χειρουργῶν, present participle of χειρουργέω = 'work with the hand,' i.e. When behaving indecently in the marketplace, he wished it were as easy to relieve hunger by rubbing an empty stomach.

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Hicks' translation in the Loeb Classical Library series and my comments.

Here are the passages cited by Professor Whitehead from Diogenes Laertius, with R.D. Hicks' translation of Diogenes Laertius in Philip Lawton, 'For the gentleman and the scholar: sexual and scatological references in the Loeb Classical Library,' in Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray, edd., Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012), pp. Such an application of νευρόω in the Lysistrata is picked up in LSJ and by Henderson (both in his commentary and in The Maculate Muse), but the instance in D.L. Some allusions to this in Hicks are easy to spot (6.46 and 69), but 6.56 requires more effort, given the camouflage of Hicks's 'he made a more scurrilous repartee'. As we know, D was much given to public masturbation.

Hicks on Diogenes Laertius' Life of Diogenes the Cynic (6.20-81). ii.I haven't myself seen this piece on the LCL, but I do hope it includes R.D. In the life-time (or at least before the death) of Theopompus, who is accused of having plagiarized from The Tripod: Eusebius, Praep. aAndron of Ephesus (§ 119) is known to have written.The Milesians, when their embassies were disregarded, made war upon Cos many fell on both sides, and an oracle pronounced that the tripod In process of time certain people of Lebedus, having purchased a catch of fish thereabouts, obtained possession of the tripod, and, quarrelling with the fishermen about it, put in to Cos, and, when they could not settle the dispute, reported the fact to Miletus, their mother-city. Thence it passed to Menelaus and was carried off by Paris along with Helen and was thrown by her into the Coan sea, for she said it would be a cause of strife. There is yet another version, that it was the work of Hephaestus presented by the god to Pelops on his marriage. An assembly was held and it was sent to Bias for what reason shall be explained in the life of Bias. However, Phanodicus declares it to have been found in Athenian waters and thence brought to Athens. Some relate that a vessel with its freight was sent by Periander to Thrasybulus, tyrant of Miletus, and that, when it was wrecked in Coan waters, the tripod was afterwards found by certain fishermen. Surely no witless word was this of the Spartan, I deem, “Wealth is the worth of a man and poverty void of esteem.” Aristodemus is mentioned by Alcaeus thus b: The story told by Andron a in his work on The Tripodis that the Argives offered a tripod as a prize of virtue to the wisest of the Greeks Aristodemus of Sparta was adjudged the winner but retired in favour of Chilon.

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