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===Aristophanes=== [[Aristophanes]] wrote in two plays an identically worded list of foul-smelling objects which included the "Lamia's testicles",<!--As an insult to a politician Cleon--> thus making Lamia's gender ambiguous.<ref>[[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Wasps]]'', 1035; ''[[Peace (play)|Peace]]'' 758, cited by {{harvp|Ogden|2013a}}, p. 91, note 117.</ref>{{Efn|This prompted Henderson (1998) to "humorlessly infer" that the Lamia must have been a [[hermaphrodite]]. {{harvp|Ogden|2013a}}, p. 91, note 117.}} This was later incorporated into [[Edward Topsell]]'s 17th-century envisioning of the lamia.<ref name="topsell"/> It is somewhat uncertain if this refers to the one Lamia{{Refn|''[[viz.]]'' [[Scholia]] to the passages whose annotations refer to her,<ref name=scholium/>}} or to "a Lamia" among many, as given in some translations of the two plays;<ref>"a Lamia's groin" (Benjamin Bickley Rogers, 1874), "a foul Lamia's testicles" (Athenian Society, 1912), "sweaty Crotch of a Lamia" (Paul Roche, 2005).</ref> a generic {{not a typo|lamia}} is also supported by the definition as some sort of a "wild beast" in the ''[[Suda]]''.<ref>"{{URL|1=http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/lambda/85|2=Lamia}}", ''Suda On Line'', tr. David Whitehead. 27 May 2008</ref>
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