INDEX_The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

Academia, gardens of

Acharnae, hostages of

--inhabitants of

--township of

Acharnians, date fixed

--date of

Adonis, festivals of

Adultery, punishment of

Aegaean, Islands of

Aegeus, a mythical king

Aeschylus, character from

--plays after death

Aesop, Fable of

Aetolian, meaning of

Age fixed for playwrights

Agoracritus, crime imputed

--meaning of

Alcibiades, his father

Amorgos silks

Amphitheus, play on word

Amyclae, town near Sparta

Anagyra, town, an obstacle

Anapaests, reference to

Anaximenes, doctrine of

Andromeda, legend parodied

Anthesteria. See Dionysia

Antimachus, the historian

Apaturia, a feast

--festival of

Aphrodité Colias, the goddess of sensual love

Archeptolemus, treatment of

Archers, as policemen

Archilochus, singer of his own shame

Archimedes, fires Roman fleet

Argives (the), their misfortune

Army, Athenian

Artemesia, the Queen

Artemis, the huntress

Artemisium, naval battle of

Artichokes, to make tender

Arignotus, a soothsayer

Ariphrades, obscene habits

--a flute-player

Aristogiton, a conspirator

Aristophanes, anonymity of

--bald

--defeated

--land-owner

Assemblies, forced attendance of citizens

Athamas, a condemned king

Athené, the goddess

--protection claimed

--seen in dream

Athenian women, fond of wine

"Babylonians," (The), a lost play

Bacchus, festivals of

Bacis, a soothsayer

Bagpipes, ancient

Barathrum, cleft of rock

--place of execution

Basket-bearers, the

Baths of Heracles

Beans, used for voting

Beetle, flying on a

Beetles, names of boats

Blackmail

Blankets, soiled with urine

Blood, unspilled in sacrifice

Boasting derided

Boeotians, the

Boulomachus, meaning of

Boy's name, dispute over

Brasidas, fell in Thrace

Brauron, its temple

"Brazen House," the

Bread, used for finger-wiping

Buckler, swearing over

Bucklers, as trophies

Bupalus, the sculptor

Byrsina, why hateful

Cabirian gods, mysteries of

Caesyra, an orator

Cage (a) for pigs

Calendar, reform of

Captives of Pylos

Captured towns

Carcinus, a fecund poet

Carcinus and sons, literary insufficiency of

Caria, situation of

Carystus, dissolute city

Catamite, faeces of

Cecrops, legend of

Cecydes, ancient poet

Centaur, legend of

Cephisodemus, an advocate

Ceramicus, burial-place

Ceremonies (sacred) personified

Ceres, sacrificed pigs

Chaerephon, disciple of Socrates

Chaeris, musician ridiculed

Chalcedon, situation of

--the town of

Chaonian, obscene allusion

Chargers, praise of their exploits

Charybdis, the whirlpool

Chastity, reward of

Cheese, as an emblem

Chersonese, towns of

Chians, obscene name of

Children, in procession

Chimney, obscene sense

Cholozyges, mad ox

Chorus (the) protects Agoracritus

Cicadas, use and significance

Cillicon, a traitor

Circus-races, terms of

Citizens (Athenian), four classes of

Clausimachus, meaning of

Cleaenetus, the law as to feeding

Cleomenes, King of Sparta

Cleon, allusion to treachery of

--dead

--disgorges tribute

--exhortation of

--foe of the aristocrats

--his former calling

--his retort

--ill results of reign

--leather-smelling

--mentioned

--the author of woe

--the rôle of

--the use of oracles

--unpaid sailors' wages

--vote of people

Cleonymus

--classed as a woman

--glutton and parasite

--ill-famed

--a general

Clepsydra, a spring

Clisthenes, a debauchee

--an effeminate

--an ill-famed orator

--a low personage

Clitagoras, song writer

Clopidian, meaning of

Cock-fighting, allusion to

Coesyra, wife of Alcmaeon

Collar (iron) for torturing

Connas, a poet

Copper-coins

Cordax (the), licentious dance

Corinth, nickname of

--mentioned

Corinthians, allies of Sparta

Corybantes, priests

Cottabos, a favourite game

Country-home, ousted from

Crab, nickname of Corinth

Cranaus, citadel of

--the King

Crates, a comic poet, character of

Cratinus, a bad living poet

--first lines of poems

--poet and lover of wine

--reference to

--rival to Aristophanes

'Clouds,' the first edition

Crows, go to the, explained

Ctesias, an informer

Cunnilingue, vice of

Cyclocorus, a torrent

Cynecephalus, species of ape

Cynna, a courtesan

--famous courtesan

Cynthia, a mountain

Dactyl, the double meaning of

'Daedalians,' a lost play

Dance, an obscene

--the kick

Dances, lascivious

Dawn, the, time for love

Dead (the), a custom

Demagogues, secret of power

Demos, double meaning of

Demosthenes, a reproach of

Demostratus, a statesman

Depilation, referred to

Diagoras, the atheist

Dicaeopolis, meaning of

Dionysia, feasts

--the basket-bearer

Dionysus, statue of, place of honour

Diopithes, a bribe-taker

Discourse, Just and Unjust

Dog, a skinned, proverb

"Dog-fox," a brothel-keeper

--meaning of

Dogs, lubricity of

Dolphins, where worshipped

Double meanings, obscene

Dream, a

Drunken habits, results of

Eagle and beetle, a fable

Earth, sons of the

Earthquakes, Sparta menaced

Ecbatana, King's residence

Ecclesia, the, or Parliament

Ecclesiasts, their salary

Echinus, town of

Eclipses, allusion to

Eels, certain, esteemed

--with beet

Egypt, residence in

Election, character of

Electra, reference to

Eleusis, mysteries of

Elymnium, a temple

Embassies, dismissed

Erectheus, identity of

Eucrates, Athenian general

--hiding-place of

--statesman

Euminides, temples of refuge

Eupolis, a comic writer

Euripides, a line from

--"Aeolus," subject of

--his mother

--his talent

--lost tragedy of

--parodied

--satirised

--verse from

Expedition, starting on

Fear, colour of

Feast of Cups

Fellation, alluded to

Festivals, three days

Fine, fixed by plaintiff

Finger, the, obscene allusion

Fleet (the), counsel concerning

Formula, a sacred

Gallop (the), in sexual intercourse

Games, war chariots in

"Garden of love," weeded

Garlic, an emblem

--for game-cocks

--the smell of

Genetyllides, minor deities

Genius, Good, explained

Glanis, invented name

"Goddesses (by the two)"

_Godemiché_, alluded to

Gods, the, belief in

Gorgon's head

Gorgons (the), name for gluttons

Grasshoppers

Greek stage, device of

Greenstuff, offered to gods

Gryttus, an orator

Gull, allusion to Cleon

Harmodius, assassin esteemed

--song in honour

Harpies (the), symbol of voracity

Heliasts, the, at Athens

--tribunal of

Hermippus, celebrated comic poet

Hephaestus, sword of

Heracles, as a glutton

_Hermae_, figures of the god

Hermes, conducts dead souls

--god of chance, and thieves

promised worship

Hieronymus, an obscure poet

--poet and pederast

Hippias, the Tyranny of

Hippocrates, sons of the general

Hipponax, satiric poet, ugliness of

Homeric verses, adapted

Hippo of Samos, doctrine

Honey, emblem of honey

Horse, marking of

Horses, good breed

Hyperbolus, a demagogue

--a general

Iliad, the, verses from

Incest with rape

Informers warned off

Initiated (the), after death

Invasion, result of

Iolas, a Theban hero

Ion (of Chios), a successful poet

Ionians, meaning

Isthmus, obscene pun

Jargon, meaningless

Jest, an obscene

_Judicatum solvi_ at Athens

Julius, a miser

Kneaded (to be), obscene

"Knockabouts," ancient

Lacratides, Archon

Lamachus, a brave general

Lame heroes, in plays

Lamprocles, a lyric poet

Language, used by orators

Laurel, the, carried off by wind

Law-costs, defendants'

Lawsuit against aliens

Lawsuits, Athenians' love of

--pretexts for

Leather, dominated by

--the market

Lemnos, ominous of misfortune

Lenaea. See Dionysia

Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae

"Let us drink," a song

Lipsydrion, fortified town

Loaves, Boeotian

"_Love and lewdness_"

Lyceum (the)

Lysicles, dealer in sheep

--husband of Aspasia

Lysimacha, derivation of

Lysistratus, a debauchee

--poverty of

Macareus rapes sister

_Mad Ox_, a nickname

Magnes, the comic poet

Male sexual organ, pun on

"_Many good men_"

"Maricas," play by Eupolis

Marpsias, an orator

Medimni, a measure

Megacles, family name

Megara, ally to Sparta

Megarians, boycotted

--(the), their sufferings

Melanion, chaste as

Melanthius, "Medea," tragedy by

--poet and gourmand

_Membrum virile_, punned upon

Micon, famous painter

Mice (the), a play

Mina, value of

Mines (silver), source of wealth

Mirrors, or burning glasses

Mitylené, city of

Modes of love, allusions to different

Month (the), how divided

Moon, the old and new

Mothon, an obscene dance

Morsimus, the poet

Morychus of Athens

Mountains, the golden

Mount Taygetus

Myronides, famous general

Mysian Telephus (the)

Names, fancy

Navarino, Battle of

Nero, Emperor, his finger

Nestor, the wise king

Nicarchus, an informer

Nicias, Greek general, satire on courage of

Oath, over a buckler

Obolus, "the honest penny"

Odomanti, a tribe

Offering, the priest's part

Old men, ridiculed

Olive branches, when carried

Olympus, a musician

Omens, their effect

Opora, the goddess

Opportunity, neglected

Opposite (the) to word expected

Oracles, belief in

--obscurity satirised

Orators, pederastic habits of

Orestes, symbol of rage

Oreus, a town

Orsilochus, brothel-keeper

Orthian mode, described

Pan, King of the Satyrs

Panathenaea, a festival

--(the), promised to Hermes

Pandeletus, renowned quibbler

Pandion, statue of

Paphlagonian tanner

--meaning of

Parabis, character of

Parliament (the), Athenian

Parnes, mountain of

Pauson, a painter

Peace, efforts for

Pederasty, school for oratory

Pegasus, in Euripides

--steed of Perseus

Peleus, accused of seduction

Pellené, a city, also name of courtesan

Penis, the drooping, as emblem

Penny royal, effect on fruit-eating

Peplus, the sacred, uses of

Pericles, maltreats conquered people

--squanders wealth

Periclides, chief of embassy

Persian buskins

Persians, alliance with Spartans

Perfumes, Rhodian

Pergasae

Phales, god of generation

Phallus (the), an emblem

Phallics. See Phallus

Phayllus, an athlete

Pheax, special pleader

Phelleus, a mountain

Pherecrates, playwright

Phidias, reward of work

Philocles, sons of

Philostratus, identity lost

Phormio, a great general

--a successful general

--famous admiral

Phrynis, poet and musician

Phryxus, ram of

Phylarch, cavalry captain

Phylé, a fortress of Attica

Pigs immolated

Pillar, used for treaties

Pimples, a swinish disease

Pindar, borrowed from

Piraeus, the

Pisander, a braggart captain

--revolutionary leader

Pittalus, a physician

Pleasures, wanton

Pnyx, purpose used for

Poetry, measures of

Poets, seduce young men

--supply theatrical gear

"_Poseidon and boat_"

Posidon, god of earthquakes

Potidaea, a tributary town

Pramnium, wine or

Prasiae, a town

Prepis, a vile pathic

Priapus, god of gardens

Prisoners, objects of sale

Prisoners, Spartan

Processions, barred to married women

Prodicus, celebrated sophist

Prytanes, duties of

--(the), their functions

Prytaneum, meals, why given

Pseudartabas, the King's Eye

Pun, far-fetched

--of ill omen

--on "father" and cowardice

--on word Pylos

Punishment (of slaves)

Pyanepsia, a festival

Pylos, history of

--barley, meaning

--the affair of

--towns of

Pyrrandrus, origin of name

Pythagorean doctrine