History of Monsters, page 133

...re surgical operation, stated that they could become eunuchs if the males used chaste-tree over a long period and the females used honeysuckle.

# DERIVED NAMES

"Homunculus," "homulus," as well as "homululus" and "homuncio" are all names denoting a small man; however, among the Chemists, "homunculus" refers to that sperm which is so highly praised, though it is not entirely of the Moon. Rather, "Chaos"—that is, the mixture of the four elements—claims a large part of it for itself, as one reads in the commentaries on Paracelsus. Similarly, among the Greeks, the terms *anthropion*, *andrarium*, *andrion*, and *diasarkos* are words expressing a little man, just as *hemianthropos* signifies a half-man. There are also various conditions that take their names from "man." There is *anthropotes*, the condition of human nature, and *anthropopatheia*, being subject to human passions; hence *anthropopatheia* refers to human affection, while a woman is called *andromanes* if she is driven mad by a love for men. Because of this, one reads in Gregory of *andromania*, namely the insane lust of immodest women. There is also *lykanthropia*, a species of melancholy where those affected wander about at night as if turned into wolves until dawn breaks. Furthermore, *exanthropos* is described as a man taking on a different nature, specifically a bestial one. But *misanthropia* signifies a hatred of humans, or inhumanity, which in Lucian is also called *apanthropia*.

The term *androaies* is used for someone harmful to men, and according to Hesychius and Suidas, *androkybalos* is a wicked man and a knave, while *andromachos* is one who fights against men. There is *androlateia*, meaning "I expel men," and *androbasmos*, which is like an *andros basmos*, a narrow path through which only one man can pass at a time.

Moreover, there are several derived names that relate to the destruction of men, such as *anthropolethros*, the ruin of men, and *androdaiktoi*, the slaying of men (a word composed from *dais* and *daizo*). Also, a "carnifex"—that is, a strangler of men—is called *andraphonos* or *andraphogos*. There is *anthropothyto*, "I sacrifice humans." In Hesiod, *anthropoktonos*, *androktonos*, and *andraphonos* are terms for a murderer, and it is also an epithet for Mars; otherwise, *androphonos* in Athenaeus is used for one having a manly voice. From this come *androphonia*, *androktonia*, and *androktasia*, meaning homicide. But *androlepsia* was the taking of pledges given against those in whose territory a murder had been committed. *Andraperia* were the spoils taken from a man killed in military service.

According to the scholiast of Aristophanes, *androtypes* means killed by a man; for in Euripides, *androkmetes agones* were contests in which men battled. *Androkmetos* means wrought by man; for one reads in Hesychius of an *androkmetos tymbos*, namely a tomb fashioned by man, or one in which a dead man lies.

Several derived names pertain to the eating of human flesh, such as *anthropophagos*, *androphagos*, *androbotos*, and *anthropoboros*, meaning a "man-eater" or one who feeds on human flesh; it is also an epithet for certain dogs. Hence *anthropophagia* and *androphagia* are defined as the devouring of humans or the eating of human flesh.

Places named after men include the *andreion* or *andron*, the part of the house where men live separately from women; and according to Hesychius and Suidas, the *androdomos* was a dining room where perhaps only men feasted. Likewise, among the Cretans, public banquets were called *andrata*, according to Aristotle, where only men would gather. Regarding a multitude of humans, there is *polyanthropia*, or according to Suidas, *andropletheia*, a crowd of people, while *oliganthropia* is a scarcity of the same. For *andrologeo* means "I collect men for military service," from which arises *andrologia*, a levy or draft of men for war.

If we look at procreation, one reads among the Greeks *anthropopoios*, a fashioner of human forms; for an *andriantopoios* and *andriantoplastes* is a sculptor, and specifically one who shapes statues of men. From this comes *andrias*, a statue primarily of a man, and *andriantiskoros*, a small statue of a man. Indeed, *anthropomorphos* means "I attribute human form," and *anthropogonia* is the generation of humans; hence in Hesiod, *androgonos* means begetting a man.

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