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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

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

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

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

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

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

Kîmos, top of voting urn, 14

Kite, the, and springtime, 114

Laches, an Athenian general, 21; comic trial of dog and, 46; ref. to his peculations, 51