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Ancient Greek Swear Words - Tales of Times Forgotten

#classics #greek | κατωμόχανος (katōmóchanos) • second-declension masculine (genitive: κατωμοχάνου) • This word means “a person who has been fucked in the ass so many times that their asshole gapes all the way to their shoulders.” Hipponax uses this phrase in his Fragment 28 to insult an unfortunate painter named Mimnes, who apparently painted an image of a serpent that Hipponax disliked along the side of a trireme.

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