Sotades

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

• Encyclopedic article on Sotades on Wikipedia