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Sotades
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thumb|You are thrusting your prick into a hole unholy.
Sotades (Greek: Σωτάδης; 3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet.
Quotes
Εἰς οὐχ ὁσίην τρυμαλιὴν τὸ κέντρον ὠθεῖς.
You are thrusting your prick into a hole unholy.
On the occasion when Ptolemy II Philadelphus had remarried, to his sister Arsinoë II. Reported in Plutarch, On the Education of Children, sec. 11a, and in Athenaeus, bk. 14, sec. 621a: "So Patroclus, Ptolemy's general, arrested [Sotades] on the island of Caunus, and thrusting him into a leaden jar he carried him out to sea and sank him in the deep." Charles Burton Gulick (ed.) Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists, LCL, vol. 6 (1959 [1937]) pp. 344–5. Compare other translations:
He pierced forbidden fruit with deadly sting.
C. D. Yonge, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus, vol. 3 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854) p. 990
You're pushing your sceptre into an ungodly hole.
Chloe Veltman, "What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders", npr.org (24 September 2025)
See also
R. F. Burton (Sotadic zone)
Incest
External links
Category:Poets from Greece