ANTIPHANES.
Plays named after Hetaerae:—Antea?, Archestrata?, Chrysis, Malthace, Melitta, Neottis, Philotis.
Plays dealing apparently with a similar class of society:—Acestria, Aleiptria, Anterosa, Auletris?, Corinthia?, Curis?, Dyserotes, Halieuomene?, Hydria, Mystis?, Neanisci.
Plays relating to erotic mythological subjects:—Aeolus, Andromeda?, Antea?, Arcas?, Caeneus?, Glaucus, Melanion (the misogynist, cp. Aristoph. Lys. 784), Meleager?, Omphale?, Phaon?
Other plays, the titles of which suggest erotic incidents: Acontizomene?, Aphrodisius?, Asoti?, Delia?, Epiclerus?, Gamus?, Harpazomene?, Lemniae, Moechi, Sappho (in the fragments the poetess merely appears as asking riddles).
Acontizomene. The drunkenness of women.
Aeolus 1. Parody of the prologue of the Canace of Euripides.
Agroecus 2. Meretrix magnum malum.
Aleiptria. The servant-girl threatens to pour hot water over some rude visitors.
Arcas 2. Mention of the Hetaera Sinope, perhaps under her nickname of Abydos.
Asclepios. An old woman induced to take medicine under the idea that it is wine.
Asoti. Mulier ducit virum.
Bacchae. The drunkenness of wives.
Boeotia. A man urges a girl to try a citron at dessert. (Copied by Eriphus, Meliboea 1. Cp. Eubulus, Campylion 5.)
Butalion. A girl (?) from the country is asked to order dinner. Cp. Acestria (where read φιλτάτη in l. 3?), and Alexis, Homoea.
Cepurus. Mention of the Hetaera Sinope.
Chrysis. 1, 2. Description of a wealthy lover.
Coroplathus. An obscene allusion.
Drapetagogus. A woman’s way of eating.
Dyspratus 1. A woman’s stinginess to her slaves. (Cp. Epicrates, Dyspratus.)
Glaucus. Reference to a vesticontubernium.
Halieuomene 1. A long fragment addressed by the fish-seller to her slave (containing various puns on the names of Hetaerae and their lovers.)
Hydria 1. The praises of a true Hetaera.
Malthace. The excuses of an Hetaera.
Melitta. A merchant who boasts of his wealth.
Metragyrtes. A girl washing a man’s feet.
Misoponerus. Complaints as to the trouble a baby is in the house.
Mystis 3. A man inviting a woman to drink, apparently to excess. (Cp. Athen. x. 441 C; Eubul. Campyl. 5; Anacreont. iv. 12, μύστις νάματος ἡ Κύπρις ὑμεναίοις κροτοῦσα.)
Neanisci 2. A girl arguing with her mother on the relative values of her poor and her wealthy lover (?).
Neottis 3. Mention of Sinope.
Omphale 3. Heracles ordering his dinner of Omphale.
Philometor. Praises of a mother. (Cp. Alexis, Incert. 35.)
Philopator. Marriage compared to death.
Zacynthius. The pleasure of having one’s feet washed by a woman. (Cp. Pherecrates, Thalatta, 7, and supra [p. 128].)
Incert. 12. Love cannot be concealed.
13. Homoeopathic cure for a wife.
51. Praise of love. (Also in Theophilus, Philaulus.)
52. Marriage the last of ills.
53. The burden of a rich wife.
54. The one thing in which you can trust a woman is, that when she is dead she will not come to life again—nothing else.
55. The one advantage of ophthalmia is that you can’t see your wife.
57. To tell a secret to a woman is like telling it to the town-crier.
71. An old man must forego the pleasures of love.
95. κασωρὶς ἡ πόρνη.