[756] The son of Aphareus, the King of Messenia; according to the legends, he had such piercing sight that he could see through walls, and could even discover what was going on in heaven and in the nether world. He took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. [757] A part of the victim which Cario was bringing back from the Temple; it was customary to present the remains of a sacrifice to friends and relations. [758] As soon as Chremylus sees himself assured of wealth he adopts less honest principles. [759] The citizens appointed to act as dicasts, or jurymen, drew lots each year to decide in which Court they should sit. There were ten Courts, each of which was indicated by one of the first ten letters of the alphabet, and the urn contained as many tickets marked with these letters as there were dicasts. Cario means to say here that the old men of the Chorus should remember that they have soon to die themselves instead of bothering about punishing him. [760] A word invented to imitate the sound of a lyre. [761] The Cyclops let his flocks graze while he played the lyre; it was thus that Philoxenus had represented him in a piece to which Aristophanes is here alluding.--Cario assumes the part of the Cyclops and leaves that of the flock to the Chorus. [762] In allusion to Ulysses' adventures in the cave of Polyphemus. [763] Laïs. [764] i.e. Cario, who is assuming the rôle of Circé of Corinth. [765] This was the torture which Odysseus inflicted on Melanthius, one of the goatherds. [766] A poet of debauched and degraded life, one of those who, like Ariphrades mentioned in 'The Knights,' "defiled his tongue with abominable sensualities," that is to say, was a _fellator_ and a _cunnilingue._ [767] It is uncertain whether Pamphilus, a tragedian, is meant here, who, like Euripides and Aeschylus, made the Heraclidae the subject of a tragedy, or the painter of that name, so celebrated in later times, who painted that subject in the Poecilé Stoa. [768] Physicians at Athens were paid very indifferently, and hence the most skilled sought their practice in other cities. [769] The Temple of Aesculapius stood on the way from the theatre to the citadel and near the tomb of Talos. A large number of invalids were taken there to pass a night; it was believed that the god visited them without being seen himself, because of the darkness, and arranged for their restoration to health. [770] Like the Furies who composed the Chorus in Aeschylus' 'Eumenides.' [771] A ravine into which criminals were hurled at Athens. [772] During the winter the poor went into the public baths for shelter against the cold; they could even stop there all night; sometimes they burnt themselves by getting too near the furnace which heated the water. [773] i.e. the most opposite things; the tyranny of Dionysius of Syracuse and the liberty which Thrasybulus restored to Athens. [774] Crimes to which men are driven through poverty.