Malakia - Other Occurrences of The Word

Other Occurrences of The Word

• "The words of the cunning knaves are soft (malakos)" Septuagint, Prov. 26.22.

• "Kings were no longer chosen from the house of Codrus, because they were thought to be luxurious and to have become soft (malakos)." From the Athenian Constitution.

• "some of the Kings proved cowardly (malakos) in warfare".

• "A true man must have no mark of effeminacy visible on his face, or any other part of his body. Let no blot on his manliness, then, ever be found either in his movements or habits." St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.289.

• "What is the purpose in the Law's prohibition against a man wearing women's clothing? Is it not that the Law would have us to be masculine and not to be effeminate in either person or actions — or in thought and word? Rather, it would have the man who devotes himself to the truth to be masculine both in acts of endurance and patience – in life, conduct, word, and discipline." St. Clement of Alexandria (c. l95, E), 2.365.

• "Therefore, we also reckon that the woman should be continent and practiced in fighting against pleasures, too. Women are therefore to philosophize equally with men, though the males are preferable at everything, unless they have become effeminate. To the whole human race, then, discipline and virtue are a necessity, if they would pursue after happiness." St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.419, 420

• "Rome was humbled beneath the effeminate luxury of Oriental despotism." Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776. I. 148.

• "In a slothful peace both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt." Bacon Greatness Kingd., Ess., 1612. 239.

• In a more modern context, during the airing of American Idol (season 6) the word malakos was often substituted on fansites for notably androgynous contestant Sanjaya Malakar's surname.