Parq/e,noi iN CoriNtH: 1 Cor 7,25-40 279 have misunderstood this text. Both times the word is used, it occurs in an identically worded couplet: Ka;n h=|j evn avkmh/|( th/j selh,nhj evn fqi,sei\ :An d’ u`pe,rakmoj th/sde to. plh/rej sko,pei, this pair of lines indicates when certain of the Praecepta Salubria are to be followed. Someone in his/her prime (evn avkmh/)| should fol- low them in the waning of the moon; someone past his/her prime (u`pe,rakmoj) should look for the fullness of the moon. exactly what is meant by being in one’s prime is not clear. it could refer to the onset of puberty as in the Soranus text. But the couplet has nothing to do with seeking sexual satisfaction. 3. the fourth use of u`pe,rakmoj is found in Suetonius, Peri. Blasfhmiw/n. Winter summarizes this text as follows: “the ones who have outrun the age of youth (evkdroma,dej) are referred to as ‘those who are undisciplined sexually (oi` avkolastai,nontej u`pe,rakma), as those overtaken by time and yet now behaving like youths with their first-time beards,’ i.e. promiscuously” 52. Here the word is used adverbially and in the context of sexual indulgence. However, it is the word avkolastai,nontej that indicates debauched behavior; u`pe,rakma indicates that it occurs at the wrong time, i.e., beyond one’s prime when it would presumably have been appropriate. the following comparison to youths with their first-time beards suggests that one’s prime occurs at puberty. 4. as Winter observes, the cognate verb u`perakma,zw is used in a third century B.C.e. papyrus to say that vines surpass other plants in vigor or bloom (ta. oivna,ria u`perh,kmaken), and about the same time in a quotation from Myron of Priene to speak of prisoners surpass- ing in vigor or bloom the appearance of a slave (u`perakma,zoien th.n oivketikh.n evpifa,neian) 53. all of this makes it very unlikely that u`pe,rakmoj refers to sexual passion. it does not refer to sexual passion in any of the uses we have considered. only in the passage from Suetonius (3 above) does it occur in the context of discussing sexual passion, and there, as we have seen, 52 WiNter, “Puberty or Passion?”, 74-75 (After Paul Left Corinth, 247). 53 WiNter, “Puberty or Passion?”, 74 (After Paul Left Corinth, 246-247). the papyrus is Papiri della Società Italiana 6.666 line 18; Myron is quoted in athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 657d.