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
