EUBULUS.
Plays named after Hetaerae:—Chrysilla, Clepsydra* (so called because she used to regulate the duration of her favours by the clock), Nannion, Neottis, Plangon.
Plays dealing with mythological erotic subjects:—Anchises?, Echo?, Europe?, Ixion?, Nausicaa?, Pelops?, Procris?
Other plays which seem to have dealt with erotic subjects:—Astyti?, Campylion, Mylothris?, Orthane, Pamphilus, Pannychis, Pornoboscus, Psaltria, Stephanopolides.
Ancylion 3. Kisses mentioned among the prizes at a “pannychis.”
Campylion. Vide supra, [p. 155].
Cercopes 1. The dangerous attractions of Corinth, narrated by a traveller.
Chrysilla 1. The folly of marrying again.
2. An attempted defence of women breaks down.
Nannion. The folly of adultery. (Vide supra, [p. 158].)
Orthane. A party of ladies and gentlemen come together to celebrate a sacrifice to Orthane.
Pamphilus 1. A man takes up his station at the window of an inn to watch the proceedings of a lady opposite. (Cp. Ter. Phormio i. 2, 38 seqq.)
3. The drinking capacities of the lady’s chaperone.
Pannychis. A description of Hetaerae, in part the same as in Nannion.
Pornoboscus 1. A woman describes her keeper.
Sphingocarion 2. Women anointing a man’s feet.
3. A lady excuses her absence on the previous evening (?).
Stephanopolides 1. A flower girl (?) ridicules the cosmetics of the professional Hetaerae.
2. The pleasures of love from a woman’s point of view. (A very graceful passage, with an allusion to the legend of Cissus and Ololygon.)
3, 4. The flower-girls making up and selling their garlands. (Another pretty passage, with perhaps an allusion to the Hetaera Nannion under her name of Aegidion.)
Incert. 3. Why do girls prefer old wine, but young men?
9. A woman in a passion.
20. A man excuses himself and goes home.
25. Mention of the festival Stenia, at which the Athenian women used to abuse one another. (Cp. Theopompus, Aphrodisia 1; supra, [p. 148].)