Index rerum et personarum

283

black clothing: 76
Black-winged Stilt: 226
book-sellers: 17
boxers and boxing: 66
braiding: 185
branding: 54
Brasidas: 207
bread: 84,227
calcium montmorillonite: 178
Callias: 60, 75, 92, 102
Callicles of Acharnae: 59
cattle: 205
cavalry horses: 54
cheese: 83
Chios: 25
Choeroboscus: 252
Choes pitchers: 64
choregos: 22-3
Cimon: 126
“circumstances change”, as trope: 145-6
cistern: 128
Cleon: 27-9, 67-8, 156, 185, 207, 216,
258
Cleonymus: 69, 156
comparatives and superlatives, irregu-
lar: 25
Corcyra: 185
corncrake: 226
Cornelianus: 109, 256
crown: 65
curse: 79, 100
cuttlefish: 43
Cyril: 75, 204, 206
Damasistratos of Chios: 212
dance: 96,215,244
Deianeira: 206
Delians: 188
Delion: 69
Demos son of Pyrilampes: 59
Demosthenes (Athenian general): 182
Demostratus: 191
desiderative verbs: 230-1
detergent: 178
dice: 100
Didymus, Comic Vocabulary: 136

Diogenianus: 34, 185, 206, 207, 210, 212,
218, 225, 226, 234, 236, 241, 243, 244,
246, 255
Dionysius (undated grammarian): 28
Dionysus: 243
Donkey’s Jaw: 182
donkeys: 182
Doric Greek: 235, 242
drying rack: 249
dyeing: 201
eels: 95
Epimerisnwi: 59
epistles and epistolary style: 29-30
ethnic abuse: 202-3
Euripides: 51-2, 100, 194, 197, 257
exiguity, metaphorical expressions
of: 81
extravagant comic coinages: 191
fencing: 208
figs: 40, 41, 171, 211, 226, 248-9
fingernails: 200
fire, cooking: 97
fish: 37,89
forts: 46, 47
frankincense: 18
future with imperatival force: 14
Galepsos: 207
garlic: 18
generals and generalship: 119
Getae: 202
girls, “religious” activities of: 84
grain-mill: 137
Grastillos/Prastillos: 237-8
hair and haircuts: 198-9, 223-4
Heracleides of Syracuse: 227
Herennius Philo: 86
Herodian: 38-9, 59, 77, 189, 203, 221,
226, 235, 237, 252
Herodicus: 212
Homer: 206
hoplite shield: 69, 1556
horses: 54
hunting: 44
hunting nets: 44-5
iambic abuse song: 132