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Indices

insolence: 58
intellectuals, characterized by alleged
eating habits: 133
lonians and Ionic Greek: 48, 229
jealousy: 49-50
jussive infinitive: 47
katakeleusmos: 138
kidnapping: 193
kdmdidoumenoi: 132, 158, 212
kottabos: 165-6
Kotyto: 87
Laconizing: 126
ladle: 160
leatherworking: 185
lentils: 110
libation vessels: 114
“likenesses” (symposium game): 40-1
lip/rim of vessel: 71
lyres and lyre-playing: 159-60
madness, metaphors for: 152
marriage: 180
matchmaker: 59
meat-hook: 218
Menander, Epitrepontes: 221
Messenians: 155-6
Molottians/Molossians: 185
mortar: 236
mourning: 76
Naxos: 248
“New music”: 12-13, 91, 164
Nicander, Georgica: 253
Nicias son of Niceratus: 67-8
oil cruet: 181
olives and olive oil: 43, 181
ominous encounter: 31
onions: 18
Orus, Ethnica: 188
Palamedes: 130
Pamphilus: 236
parabasis: 146, 148-50, 160-1
paratragedy: 214
patrols: 47
pederasty: 75, 126, 195
pegging: 253
peplos: 84, 86-7

Pericles: 67, 248
personal names, mock: 190-1
pestle: 236
Philip II of Macedon: 155-6
philosophers: 138
Phrynichus (grammarian): 153-4, 236,
237
Phrynichus (tragic poet): 215
Phrynis: 13
pigs and pig-pens: 255
Pindar: 163-4
piss-pot: 129
pitcher: 111
Plato: 132, 138
plural verb with a neuter plural
subject: 33
potters: 64
pretty young man: 95, 223-4
processional phallus: 88
Prometheus: 258
prose, use of in comedy: 168
prostitutes: 74, 101-2
Pyronides: 13
pyrriche: 191
radishes: 42-3
ravens: 79
reed (of a musical instrument): 210
rhapsodes: 245-6
“Rhodia”, wife of Callias: 60, 75, 102
rings: 209
ritual prescription: 84
ritual silence: 179
rope: 44
satyrs and silens: 241
schools and education: 164-5, 255
sealstone: 209
ship-building: 253
Silenos: 241
singular for plural: 152
slaves: 19-20, 44, 97, 128-9, 137, 192-3,
202, 225, 231
Socrates: 93, 132, 133, 134-5, 138,
159-61
sophists: 138-9
Spartan shield devices: 155-6