Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies/Index 2
INDEX
INDEX
A
Achilles, when mute, 227
Achradusian, coined word, 347
Adimantus, an admiral, 260; his father, idem.
Admetus, the King, 67
Adulterers, depilated, 407
Æagrus, an actor, 35
Æschylus, verse from, 127; lost tragedy, 150; periods imitated, 223; ridiculed, 229; supposed disciples, 231; ‘The Persæ,’ 233; parodied, 235; unfair criticism, 249; “Philoctetes,” 252; ‘Niobé’ quoted, 253; ‘Glaucus Potniensis’ quoted, 254
Æsculapius, temple of, 423; daughters of, 438
Æsimus, unknown, 340
Agathon, tragic poet, 184, 268, 274; pederastic habits, 282
Aglaurus, two women, 291
Agoranomi (the), 73
Agyrrhius, an effeminate general, 334; an upstart, 408
Alcæus, a parody of, 157, 276
Alcibiades, lisp in speech. 11; obtains a subsidy, 201
Alcmena, seduced by Zeus, 117
Alimos, the town of, 114
Alliance against Sparta, 339; garrison at Corinth, 408
Allusion, obscene, 283, 342; and Smæus, 374; to Ulysses, 415
Alopé, seduced by Posidon, 117
Ammon, temple to Zeus, 120
Amynon, infamy of, 347
Anacreon, 276
Andromeda, the play, 181, 315
— release of, 314
Anti-dicasts and lawsuits, 93
Antilochus, Nestor’s son, 348
Antiphon, a gluttonous parasite, 68
Antisthenes, a constipated miser, 372
Antithenes, a dissolute doctor, 347
Antitheus, 309
Aphareus, son of, his piercing vision, 411
Aphrodisiac, 388
Apodrasippides, explained, 18
Apollo as god of healing, 49; priestesses of, 56; physician, 118; altar, how misused, 289
Apothecary, outfit of, 438
Archers, mounted corps of, 146; at Athens, 313
Archidemus, 211
Ares, a fighting-cock, 129
Arginusæ, sea-battle of, 179; slaves who fought at, 217
Argos, citizens of, 433
Ariphrades, his infamous habits, 69, 335
Aristocrates, a general, 94
Aristophanes, why uncrowned, 58; modifies opinion, 234
Aristyllus, debaucheries of, 416
Artemis, goddess of chase, 26; the surname of, 131
Artemisium, battle of, 60
Asia Minor, coast towns, 59
Asses’ (the) shadow, 19; asses used for the Mysteries, 189
Athenian law, 217
Attica, invasion of, 341
Audience, favour, how gained, 12
Augé, the seduced, 237
B
Bacchus, “Feast of Cups,” 302; surnames of, 313
Baptism, the pagan, 133
Bar, the, language of, 380
Barathrum, a ravine, 424
Barriers, let down, 77
Bastard. when of strange women, 170
Baths, how heated, 292; use in winter, 430
Battus, silphium of, 450
Bed of Procrustes, 383
Beginning, fable of the, 146
Bell, to awaken sentinels, 130
Birds as love-gifts, 124
Boasters, the, of Corinth, 204
Bottles painted on coffins, 381
Boxing, story of, 72
Brasidas, an Athenian general, 31
Brigand, the option of, 384
Buffoonery at Megara, 12
Bullocks’ intestines, as comparison, 61
Buzzard, double meaning, 147
Byzantium, 21
C
Cake, eaten by priest, 464
Callias, identity of, 102
Callias, the general, his debaucheries, 203
Calligenia, adoration of, 285
Callimachus, poverty of, 372
Canephori, rank in feasts, 164
Canephorus, the part of, 367
Cannonus, the decree of, 388
Carians, mountaineers, 102
Carcinus, tragic poet, 78; pun on name, 79; his three sons, 79
Carding, woman's shape at, 534
Caskets, how perfumed, 58
Cats, lascivious, 335
Centaur, the, 179
Cephale, pun on word, 113
Cephalus, a demagogue, 341 ; his father, 341
Cephisophon, a * ghost,” 230; seduces a wife, 235, 254
Ceramicus, the, 109, 187
Cheerephon, 73; compared to the bat, 165
Chaplets of flowers, 335
Charitimides, an admiral, 344
Chians, the, named in prayers, 131
Children, when registered, 263
Choenix (the), 41
Chorus, the lost, 367 ; eexit singing, 468
Choruses, when given, 15
Cinesias, the poet, 154; his build, 155; befouls a statue, 202; the dissolute, 345
Circumcision, where practised, 115
Citizens, the fame of, 338
Cleocritus, the strut of, 131
Cleonymus, cowardly, 10; gluttony of, 102; wife of, 295
Cleophon, a general, 217; an alien, 260
Clepsydra (the), 13, 48, 172
Cloak, See Clothes, 444
Clothes, dedication of, 444
Clidemides, 222
Cligenes, a demagogue, 218
Climax and anti-, 410
Clisthenes, an effeminate, 129; accused of prostitution, 180, 280, 293
Cock-fighting, 126
Coffins, emblems on, 381
Coins, in the mouth. 114, 373
Colaconyraus, the flatterer, 36
Colic, the, a remedy, 289
Colonus, and Croydon, 136
Connus, a flute-player. 39
Conon, flight of, 339
Coot’s head, likeness to cunnus mulie- bris, 117
Corcyra, whips of, 160
Corinth, boasting at, 204; corruption at, 406 ; garrison at, 408
Corinthian ships, obscene comparison, 298 ; courtesans, 406
Corybantes (the), mysteries of, 9; sacred instrument, 1
Cotyle, a measure, 302
Courtesans, high prices, 406
Court-opening, formula, 49
Cramming oneself, 365
Crane, herald of winter, 125 ; carry ballast, 144
Cratinus, a comic poet, 201
Cress, its properties. 286
“Cretan monologues,” 225; rhythms ; 391
Crime and poverty, 431
Criticism, too low, 234
Crityla, 309
Crows, going to, 12, 87
Cuckoo, the, 115
Curotrophos, meaning, 285 Cuttle-fish, 357
Cyclops, the, and lyre, 415 Cycni, the two, 231
Cynna, the courtesan, 57 Cyrené, the courtesan, 250, 273
D
Dardanas, flute-girls from, 72
Daughters, lent to strangers, 384
Dead bodies on plants, 364
Debts, in relation to women, 383
Demagogues as drones, 59
Demeter, Mysteries of, 189; how repre- sented, 273; idess of abundance, 285
Demorracy in Olympus, 165
Demoluchocleon, explained, 25
Demos, a young Athenian, 4
Depilation, for adultery, 407
“* Descend,” term explained, 54
Devil, to the, how expressed, 359
Dexinicus, the greedy, 442
Diagoras, & convert to atheism, 141, 200
Dicasts, insignia, 10
itrephes, rich basket-maker, 127
Dining stations, 365
Diomedes, a brigand, 384
Diomeia, temple at, 215
Dionysus, not brave, 181
Dionysus, temple, 194; the god, 223
Diopithes, a diviner, 133
Diopithes, the orator, 26
Discontented, the rendezvous of, 464
Division (the), of lands, 41
Dog, backside of, 242
Door-hinge, moistened, 289
Drachma (the), 44
Draughts, rules of, 381
Dreams, fee to interpret, 12
Duck’s domain, the, 117
E
Eagle, symbol of royalty, 115
E a soil of, 307
Ekkiklyma, the, 278
Elegants, effeminate, 231
Eleusis, mysteries of, 444
— women at, 155
Eleven {the}, who they were, 59
Embezzling State funds, 408 Empusa, a spectre, 198, 386
Engastromythes, explained, 56 Englottogastors, meaning of, i72
Epicrates, a demagogue, 332 Epigonus, a pathic, 388
Erasinidas, a general, 243 Erinnys, a fury, 424
Eryxis, noted for ugliness, 229
Ether (the), physical theory of, 284
Euathlus, 2 diflamer, 36
Eudemus, the sorcerer, 447
Euphemius, a flatterer, 36
Euripides, a verse from, 42; date of his death, 182; distich from, 183; expressions from, 185, 200; verse from Orestes, 199; origin, 224; lost tragedies, 225, 245–7; verse from, 226; heterodoxy, 226; insipid style, 230; “ghost” of, 230; birth, 230; stage-characters of, 236; influence of his poetry, 237; labour criticised, 243; versus Æschylus, 248; rhythm, 250; monologue, 251; ‘Antigoné’ quoted, 253; ‘Telephus’ and ‘Meleager’ quoted, 254; ‘Hippolytus,’ line from, 258, 284; ‘Æolus’ and ‘Phryxus’ quoted, 259; parodied, 266; ‘Æolus,’ 276; ‘Alcestis’ quoted, 277; ‘Melanippe.’ 283; mother insulted, 287; ‘Sthenobœa,’ 287 ‘Phœnix,’ 287; ‘Palamedes,’ 304; ‘Helen’ quoted, 307; how staged, 310; son of, 373; verse from, 464
Eurycles, the diviner, 56
Evæon, poverty of, 348
Excrement, voiding, 347; eating of, proverb, 359
Execestides, stranger at Athens, 85; his tutelary deity, 168
Eyes, bad, proverb on, 342
F
Fear, effect of, 89
Feast of Pots, the, 107
Fees to citizens, 344
Felicity, and cuttle-fish, 357
“Fig leaves in fire,” 29
Figs with tongues, 172; “denouncers of figs,” 398
Figure of rhetoric, 390
Fish, high price of, 236
Flamingo, the, 101
Fleet (the), supremacy of, 258
Flowers, worn at feasts, 112
Flute-girls, genitalia, ref. to, 72
Fop, an old, 374
Forest. pun on word, 91
Four Hundred, the, 217
Friend of Strangers, the, 13
G
Gables, pun on word, 142
Galleys, land of, 92
Games given at Athens, 465
Gargettus, 309
Garlic, and gallants, 289
Genetyllides, the 274
Geres, old fop, 374
Gestation, ten months, 302
Gibberish uttered by a god, 168
Girls, unmarried, ornaments, 123
Glaucetes, a glutton, 315
Gods, the days of the, 452
Gorgos, head of, 319
Grasshopper, the, as comparison, 70
Greek words, puns on, 365
Grudge, bearing no, 464
Gull, the voracious, 117
H
Hades, leaders in, 210
Harmodius, statue of, 365
Hecaté, altars of, 44; the poor fed, 433; goddess of death, 459
Hegelochus, an actor, 199
Heliasts, tribunal of, 13; manner of voting, 14; daily salary, 15; acrid temper, 16, 24; separated from public, 46; choice of, 59
Hellés sacred wares, 23
Hellebore, for madness, 77
Hemlock, effect of, 186
Heracles, gluttony of, 12; descends to Hades, 67
Heracles, Temple of, 179
Hermes, attributes of, 465
Hesiod on Plutus, 401
“Hestia, addressing first,” 47
Hiero, of Syracuse, 133
Hieronymus, the argive, 339
Hippias, tyranny of, 32
Hippocrates, theories of, 284
Hipponicus, the orator, 102
Homer’s text corrupted, 118
“Horse, the,” an erotic posture, 275
Horses, devoured by, 384
Hydriaphoros, the alien, 367
I
Ibycus, the poet, 275
Ilithyia, goddess of child-birth, 347
Illyrians, the, 162
Incest, in the ‘Æolus,’ 225
Informer, business of, 157
Ino, metamorphosis of, 74, 98
Intercourse, sexual, 342
Interrupters, how dismissed, 359
Invoke the god, 205
Iophon, son of Sophocles, 183
J
Jar of wine comp. to ass, 37
Jest, obscene, 380
Jocasta, married by son, 385
Jokes, coarse, 240
Jurymen, fees of, 258; tricks of, 466
Justice, slowness of, 380
K
Kîmos, top of voting urn, 14
Kite, the, and springtime, 114
L
Laches, an Athenian general, 21; comic trial of dog and, 46; ref. to his peculations, 51
Laespodias, a general, 165
Lais, the courtesan, 409 Lamachus, hetter opinion of, 234 Lamia, transformed, 64
Lariz (the), 57
Lamias, unknown, 333 Lampadephoria, the, 87
Laropon, a diviner, 114 ; prediction of, 185 Lasus, the poet, 74 Laurium, the mines of, 142
Leather, allusion to old, 11 Leogaras, an epicure, 68 Leotrophides, his leanness, 156 Lesbian women, tricks of, 250
Literature, heavy, 254
Locksmiths, Spartan, 288 Lots, drawing, 414 Love exercises, ref. to, 58 Lore's Labour's Lost, 391 Lovers, gifts of, 287; paid, 407
Lyenbettus, 235 “Lycimnius,’ a tragedy, 149 Lycus, a titulary god, 27; statue of, #5 Lyre, sound imitated, 415
Lysicrates, a treacherous general, 115; famed for ugliness, 367
M
Magic rings, 447 Marathon, ref. to, 58 Masks, use of, 88 Masturbation, jest on, 380
Measure, false, punished, 462 Medusa, head of, 314 Melanthius, a poct and leper, 95 Megubyzus, a general, 113 Megara, birthplace of comedy, 12 Memmnon, 231 Meniére (Dr, P.}, ref. to, 302 Merchants, exemption of, 384, 448 Meton, a eometrician, 136
“ Milesian bravery,” 454 Military service (see Merchants), 384, 448
Molon. a gigantic actor, 181 Morsimus, a minor poet, 184 Morychus, 32; nuintle of, 61
- Mother of the Gods,” the, 126
Mother, son marries, 343 Mouth.strap, (the:
Munychion, April, 140 Myronides, a general, 344 Myrtia, a baker’s wife, 73 Myrtle boughs, use of, 87 Mysteries. insulting the, 26; of Eleusis, 444
N
Nausicydes, 350
Naxos, island of, 25
Neoclides, an orator, 436
Nephelococcygia, meaning, 128
Nicias, grandson of, 350
Nicias, the general, 107 his slackness, ll
Nightingale, song of, 125 “« Niobe,” tragedies of, 35 Nysa, a town of Dionysus, 194
O
Odeon (the), by whom built, 59
Odysseus, manner of escape, 18; as spy, 25 ; how he tortured, 416
Odyssey, the, quoted, 165
Offal, human, tasting, 436
Oil, extensive use of, 442
Olive leaves, 335
Olophyxians, the, 140
Omen, word for, 125; satire on, 125; starting on journey, 192
Onions, as aphrodisiac, 388
Oracles, trees as, 125
Orators, infamous, 236; venom of, 290; wear chaplets, 335; rapacity of, 336
«Orestes. prologue of the, 238
Orestes, the robber,125;cave alluded to,160
Origanum, used for corpses, 38+
Ormaments, worn by girls, 123
Orne, a town, 109; alluded to by prophet, 135
Owls, as omen, 59; at Athens, 103
Ox-fat, syn. for people, 11
P
Palamedes, the inventor, 245
Pamphilus, two of the name, 419
Pan, the god, 125
+ Pankration ” (the), 65
Puntacles, unknown, 234
“ Parsley and the rue," 31
Pathos and bathos, 134
Patrocles, a rich miser, 402
Pauson, ruined, $12; poverty of, 433
Peace, mother of Plutus, 401
Peacock and hoopoe, 92
Pebble, the, how held, 13, 14
Pelargicon, the, 129
Pellené, a town, 187
Peplus, the, 129
Perfumes, on dead bodies, $81
Perseus, legend of, 314
Persian (the), cloak, 61
Phanz, land of informers, 172
Pharnaces and bribery, 139
Pharsalus, a town, 64
Philepsius, a buffoon, 408
Philippus, traitor and alien, 29
Philocles, the poet, 101, 276
Phlegra, plain of, 129
Phratria, registers of the, 170
Phrygi the, 274
Phrygians, origin of, 126
Phrynichus, tragic writer, 20, 77, 2275 precocious talent of, 276
Phrynondas, the infamous, 307
‘ Phryxus’ (the), lines from, 237
Phylarchs, the, 127
Phylé, occupation of, 464
Physicians, poorty paid, 422
Piz-trough, for bar, 47
Pigs, young, sacrificed
isander, a coward, 1
Pittalus, a physic:
Plants, aromati
Plutus, god of riches, f01; cured of blindness, 434
Pnyx (the), 299
Poetry, and dissolutencss, 237
Poets, seduction of, 37
Pole, play on word, 97
Polemareh (the}, 57
Policemen, at Athens, 313
Poltroons, names for, 140
Poor, the, coftins of, 341
— the, fed monthly, 433
Porphyrion, name of a Titan, 150
Poverty, cause of crime, 430
Presents, by lovers, 12+
Priestesses, title of, 56
Private disputes, law anent, +49
Procrustes, notorious brigaud, 343
Prodicus, the sophist, (2+
Pronomus, beard of, 354
Proteas, play on name, 308
Proteus, palace of, 308
Proxeni, their duties, 138
Purses, substitute for, 37, 44
Pyrrhic, the, dance, 1#9
Q
Quiver, pun on word, 325
R
Rabelais, tong word from, 391 Racine, in the Plaideurs, 1 Raven, a muzzled, Lx)
Rewards, promiscl, 12 Rich, the, dead, 381 Ridicule feared, 347
Rites for dead, 384
Robe, Cretan, 303
Rope, the vermition, 31% Rope’s end, for membrum ririle, 10 Rowing, command to stop, 156
S
Sacrifice, the complete, 443
Sacrificial remains, 412
Sailors, in danger, 225
Saffron robe, meaning of, 180
Salabaccha, a courtesan, 57
Salaminian, the, a State galley, 95
Samians, plot with Persians, 23
Serdanapatus, used as title, 138
Scaphephoros, symbol of, 367
Sceptre. the, how made, 115° ‘iapodes, big feet of the, 164 loné, a town, 20
Scirophoria, feast of, 330
Scorpions and orators, 2/4?
Scythian, the, use as police, 313
—his accent, 32+
Seal, how protected
Seals, broken, 288
Sebinus, the treader, 380
Semelé, mother of Bacchus, 117
Serenades, Greek, 370
Serpent, the sacred, 437
Sesame cakes, 96
Shakespeare, long word from, 394
Shoemakers, women as, 350
Shoes, ete., where left, 874
ight, extraordinary, 411
imois, city of the, 273
Singing, exit whilst, 468
Slaves, branding of, 260; names, 376
Sinwus, the debauchee, 374
Socratic, the, “ Elenchus," 404
Socrates, etc., comp. to vampires, 57 ; the accuser of, 249
Soldier, as ambassador, 64
Solon, inws of, 407
Son, marries mother, 385
Sophocles, mentioned, 92; parodied, 153 ; the Laacoon of, 218
Sore throat and bribery, 346
“Sows, little,” obscene pun,
Sparta, , 128; alliance against, 3!
Sperchius, the, 260 Sphettian vinegar, 439 Spintharus, 126
Sporgilus. a barber, 103 Stute funds, embezzted, 108 State, prosecuting the, 49 Statutes, how protected, 143 Sthenelus, an actor, 70 Sthenabora, an amorous queen, 234–5 Stool, position at, 347
Strangers, enjoy host's daughters Streak, the red, 348
Strouthian, the poulterer, 142 Sun, the, parodied, 330 Sunburnt, how to get, 332 Sunshade carrier, 367
Surnames of characters, 151 Swearing, by the birds, 116 Sybaris, the town of, 75 Sycophants, origin of word, 398 Syllables, seventy-seven, 391 Syrmea, a plant, 307
T
Tablets and scrolls, 47
Talcas, a citizen, 138
Talent, value of, 61
Tartessus, a town, 205
Taxes on slaves, 382
Tenian garlic, 439
Tereus, legend of, 86
Terminus, the god, 208
Testicles, play on word, 80; tortured, 416
Teucers, 23+
Thales, his fame, 137
Thallophores (the), 34
Tharelides, the jay, 86
Theagenes, his farting, 64
Theogenes, a boaster, 129
Theognis, 276
Theorus, comp. to crow, 11, 28
Theramenes, 209
Theseus, descent to Hades, 188; feasts of, 434
Thesmophoria, when celebrated, 270; duration, 271; beautiful women, 284; women slaves forbidden, 284; lodging of women, 297; images of the gods, 304
Thesmothetes (the), 43; described, 52; again, 59
Thespis, the dances of, 77
Thorycion, frauds of, 201
Thrace, towns of, 23
Thrasybulus, deliverer of Athens, 339; compared, 430; takes Phylé, 464
Thrasybulus the orator, sore throat of, 346
Threttanello (see Lyre), 415
Thucydides, tongue-tied, 53
Thymaetia, coats of, 61
Tiara, how worn, 113
Timon, the misanthrope, 164
Timotheus, a general, 409
Tithrasios, 205
Torch-race (the), 237
Tortures allowed, 213; ingenious, 416
Townspeople despised, 344
Tragic style, parodied, 398
Treasure, proverb on, 119
Treasury, the public, 467
Triballi, the, a term of reproach, 168
Trierarchs, 408
Tyranny, jest on death of, 141
U
Ulysses’ adventures, 415
Urns, the two, 54; threatened, 141
V
Versatile people, proverb, 231
Verse, a borrowed, 77
Verses, sung by maidens, 133
Vine-prop (the), a comparison, 69
Vote, of juryman, how given, 14
W
Wealth, and principle, 411
Wild pears and sore throats, 346
Wine-skin, hopping on, 463
Wine-pits, the, 337
Wineshop-keepers punished, 462
Woman and carding, 334
— “to go with,” pun on word, 383
— debt in relation to, 383; old woman, pun on, 468
Women, at funerals, 203; secret loves of, 278; in child-bed, 290; period of gestation, 302; love of strong drink, 336; their form of oath, 337; addressed as men, 344; yellow tunics of, 345; pale-faced, 350; pay their lovers, 407; display of luxury, 455
Word, a wonderful, 391
Wren, play on word, 90; in French and German, 117
X
Xenocles, an inferior poet, 184, 276
Y
Yellow tunics, 345
Young men, how seduced, 57
Z
Zeus, the Deliverer, 467