Antedating of "Phallic"

[Fred Shapiro]

phallic (OED 1789)

1733 Bernard Picart _The ceremonies and religious customs of the various
nations of the known world_ 20 (Eighteeenth Century Collections Online)
_Aristophanes_ in _Acharnan._ speaks of _Phallic_ Verses sung in Honour of
the _Phallas_, or _membrum virile_, which was carried in Pomp in the
_Bacchanalia_.

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press,
Yale Law School                             forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------