[597] The coward, often mentioned with contempt by Aristophanes, had thrown away his shield.
[598] The ancients believed that cress reduced the natural secretions.
[599] A deme of Attica.
[600] The women lodged in pairs during the Thesmophoria in tents erected near the Temple of Demeter.
[601] The Corinthians were constantly passing their vessels across the isthmus from one sea to the other; we know that the Grecian ships were of very small dimensions.
[602] This was the name of the place where the Ecclesia, the public meeting of the people, took place; the chorus gives this name here to Demeter's temple, because the women are gathered there.
[603] The spaces left free between the tents, and which served as passage-ways.
[604] A choric dance began here.
[605] A woman's footgear.—On undressing the supposed child, Mnesilochus perceives that it is nothing but a skin of wine.
[606] Dr. P. Menier repeatedly points out in his "La médecine et les poètes latins," that the ancient writers constantly spoke of ten months as being a woman's period of gestation.