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Indices

perfume and perfume stands: 209,
247-8
Pericles: 81-2, 169, 220, 243, 316, 344,
363-4, 455, 501, 513
Pericles II son of Pericles: 169, 170, 171
Persian king: 126
Pherecrates, Agrioi: 29
Philinos: 250
Philoxenus of Diomeia: 302
Philoxenus son of Eryxis: 302
Phorcys: 366
Phormio son of Asopios: 43, 367, 368,
369-70, 377-8, 380, 383, 396, 399, 412,
414,418,420, 429
Phrygia: 199, 332, 333-4
Phrynichus (comic poet): 127
physical disability: 358, 464, 465, 466-7
picket-duty: 384
pig: 475-6, 477
pillow: 79-80, 232-3
pipe (musical instrument): 447
plague, Athenian: 214
Plataea, Battle of: 12
Plato Comicus, Hyperbolas: 126
pnigos: 495
Polygnotus: 243
porcupine: 505
pork: 477
porters: 201, 433-4, 449-50
Porthaon: 254
Poseidon: 20, 441
prayer: 304, 333
proagon: 513
Prodicus: 253
prologue: 74, 203, 210
prophetic present for future: 193
Prospalta: 315
prostitutes and courtesans: 82, 101,
112-13, 143, 234, 298
Protagoras of Abdera: 28-9, 36-9, 46,
47, 51, 71, 79, 117
proverbs: 24-5, 148, 326, 388, 390, 422,
440-1, 444-5, 481, 496-7, 510
omission of verb in: 457
prytaneis: 408-9

Ptolemy son of Hephaestion, i.e.
Ptolemaeus Chennos: 436-7
Pylos: 12
Pyrilampes son of Antiphon: 259-60
quail and quail-fighting: 218, 257
quail-tapping: 397
ram as sacrificial victim: 195
raven: 430
ray or skate: 100
Rhodian tripolis: 25
ribbon and ribbon-vending: 353-4
rower: 390
sacred law, expounders of: 508
sacrifice: 195, 476
saltfish: 199-200
Samos and Samian Revolt: 43
sand, numberlessness of as trope: 487
school and school-teachers: 135-6
sea-bass: 57
seal-ring: 208-9
seer: 256, 467, 508
Seleucus of Alexandria: 25
Seriphos: 289
sesame: 107
sex: 82, 83, 108, 143, 158, 195, 269, 294
shackles or chains: 103
shears and scissors: 473
sheep and goats: 66
shield: 416-17
shoes and sandals: 443-4, 491-2
sickness as metaphor: 134
sieve, for flour: 218
Simon: 275
Simonides of Ceos: 17-18
Sirius: 51-2
skillet: 26
Slave City: 221
slaves and slavery: 11-12, 35, 56, 61, 70,
74, 89, 94, 95, 127, 149, 154, 158, 170,
185, 189, 196, 199, 201, 221, 263-4,
294, 298, 304, 325, 332, 408, 409, 418,
433, 443, 457-8, 464, 469, 470, 475,
479, 503, 505
sleep, imagery of: 212, 301
snake: 53, 335