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[hawkwing_lb]

Quoted from GER Lloyd, 2003, In the Grip of Disease: studies in the Greek imagination:

"[Herodotus] recounts the fate of Pheretime who had punished the people of Barce for the murder of Arcesilaus by cutting off the breasts of the women and impaling the men on stakes round the city wall... Pheretime herself comes to a sticky end: she dies a horrible death, 'her body seething with worms while she was still alive'."

Pheretime, also known as Pheretima, was a Cyrenaean queen. She has a genus of earthworms named after her. (Although as matociquala said, the worms of which Herodotus speaks are more likely to be maggots.)

Can we all say ick?

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[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

ICK

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I won't tell you my maggot story, the one that used to make me break out into a cold sweat. Not that there's anything wrong with maggots.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...Maggot story?

*fears*

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

And ewwwwwwwwww.........

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Lovely Greeks...

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Very much ick!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

But at least she got a genus of earthworms out of it? That's enduring fame, right?

(I will have the image in my head all night.)