RAPHANIDOSIS, a punishment inflicted at Athens upon adulterers. The manner of it was this: The hair was plucked off from the privities of the offenders, hot ashes laid upon the place, and a radish or mullet thrust up his fundament, as has been mentioned under ADULTERY. To this Juvenal alludes, Sat. x. ver. 317. Quosdam mulierum et mugilis intrat. Persons who had been thus punished were called υπερασδία. The word raphanidosis is derived from ρεφάνις, "a radish."