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title: On Courtesans and Their Names
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Aristophanes of Byzantium
eul_wid: klo-ak
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canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/aristophanes-byzantium-courtesans-names-klo-ak"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Grammar
format: Collection
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---

# On Courtesans and Their Names

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Aristophanes of Byzantium

**eul_wid:** `klo-ak` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/aristophanes-byzantium-courtesans-names-klo-ak)

## Text

### 3b,347,F 1

ATHEN. 13, 51 p. 586 F (HARPOKR. s.v. Ἀντίκυρα)· ἐν δὲ τῶι Κατὰ Φιλωνίδου βιαίων ὁ Λυσίας (F 245 Tur), εἰ γνήσιος ὁ λόγος, καὶ Ναίδος τῆς ἑταίρας μέμνηται, κἀν τῶι Πρὸς Μέδοντα ψευδομαρτυριῶν (F 167) 〈Ἀντικύρασ〉. ἐπώνυμον δ’ ἐστὶ τοῦτο ἑταίρας· τὸ γὰρ κύριον ἦν Οἴα, ὡς Ἀριστοφάνης εἴρηκεν ἐν τῶι Περὶ ἑταιρῶν, Ἀντικύραν αὐτὴν φάσκων κληθῆναι ἤτοι ὅτι συνέπινε παρακινοῦσι καὶ μεμηνόσιν ἤτοι ὅτι αὐτὴν ἀναλαβὼν ὁ ἰατρὸς Νικόστρατος [καὶ] ἀποθνήσκων κατέλιπεν αὐτῆι πολὺ ἐλλέβορον, ἄλλο δὲ οὐδέν.

### 3b,347,F 2*

AELIAN. V. H. 12, 5 (14, 35): ὅτι Λαὶς ἡ ἑταίρα, ὥς φησιν Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος, καὶ Ἀξίνη ἐκαλεῖτο. ἤλεγχε δὲ αὐτῆς τὸ ἐπώνυμον τοῦτο τὴν τοῦ ἤθους ἀγριότητα καὶ ὅτι πολὺ ἐπράττετο, καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον παρὰ τῶν ξένων, ἅτε ἀπαλλαττομένων θᾶττον.

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