[593] There were two women named Aglaurus. One, the daughter of Actaeus, King of Attica, married Cecrops and brought him the kingship as her dowry; the other was the daughter of Cecrops, and was turned into stone for having interfered from jealousy with Hermes' courtship of Hersé her sister. It was this second Aglaurus the Athenian women were in the habit of invoking; they often associated with her her sister Pandrosus. [594] Underneath the baths were large hollow chambers filled with steam to maintain the temperature of the water. [595] By kicking her in the stomach. [596] Clisthenes is always represented by Aristophanes as effeminate in the extreme in dress and habits. [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. [607] A cotyla contained nearly half a pint. [608] Both the Feast of Cups and the Dionysia were dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine; it is for this reason that Mnesilochus refers to the former when guessing the wine-skin's age. [609] The Cretan robe that had covered the wine-skin. [610] An allusion to the tragedy by Euripides called 'Palamedes,' which belonged to the tetralogy of the Troades, and was produced in 414 B.C. Aristophanes is railing at the strange device which the poet makes Oeax resort to. Oeax was Palamedes' brother, and he is represented as inscribing the death of the latter on a number of oars with the hope that at least one would reach the shores of Euboea and thus inform his father, Nauplias, the king of the fact. [611] The images of the various gods which were invoked at the Thesmophoria, and the enumeration of which we have already had. [612] Charminus, an Athenian general, who had recently been defeated at sea by the Spartans.--Nausimaché was a courtesan, but her name is purposely chosen because of its derivation ([Greek: naus], ship, and [Greek: mach_e], fight), so as to point more strongly to Charminus' disgrace. [613] A general and an Athenian orator. [614] A courtesan.