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 maculos et mugilis intrat. Persons who had been thus punished were called τοργαλεῖ. The word raphanidosis is derived from ῥάπινος, "a radish."