[12] To gain the favour of the audience, the Comic poets often caused fruit and cakes to be thrown to them. [13] The gluttony of Heracles was a constant subject of jest with the Comic poets. [14] The incident of Pylos (see 'The Knights'). [15] The Greek word for _friend of strangers_ is [Greek: philoxenos], which happened also to be the name of one of the vilest debauchees in Athens. [16] The tribunal of the Heliasts came next in dignity only to the Areopagus. The dicasts, or jurymen, generally numbered 500; at times it would call in the assistance of one or two other tribunals, and the number of judges would then rise to 1000 or even 1500. [17] A water-clock, used in the courts for limiting the time of the pleaders. [18] The pebble was held between the thumb and two fingers, in the same way as one would hold a pinch of incense. [19] A young Athenian of great beauty, also mentioned by Plato in his 'Gorgias.' Lovers were font of writing the name of the object of their adoration on the walls (see 'The Acharnians'). [20] [Greek: K_emos], the Greek term for the funnel-shaped top of the voting urn, into which the judges dropped their voting pebbles. [21] Racine has introduced this incident with some modification into his 'Plaideurs.' [22] Although called _Heliasts_ ([Greek: H_elios], the sun), the judges sat under cover. One of the columns that supported the roof is here referred to. [23] The juryman gave his vote for condemnation by tracing a line horizontally across a waxed tablet. This was one method in use; another was by means of pebbles placed in one or other of two voting urns. [24] Used for the purpose of voting. There were two urns, one for each of the two opinions, and each heliast placed a pebble in one of them. [25] The Heliast's badge of office. [26] To prepare him for initiation into the mysteries of the Corybantes. [27] Who pretended to cure madness; they were priests of Cybelé. [28] The sacred instrument of the Corybantes. [29] _Friend of Cleon,_ who had raised the daily salary of the Heliasts to three obols. [30] _Enemy of Cleon._ [31] The smoke of fig-wood is very acrid, like the character of the Heliasts. [32] Used for closing the chimney, when needed. [33] Which had been stretched all round the courtyard to prevent his escape. [34] Market-day. [35] He enters the courtyard, returning with the ass, under whose belly Philocleon is clinging. [36] In the Odyssey (Bk. IX) Homer makes his hero, 'the wily' Odysseus, escape from the Cyclops' cave by clinging on under a ram's belly, which slips past its blinded master without noticing the trick played on him. Odysseus, when asked his name by the Cyclops, replies, _Outis_, Nobody. [37] A name formed out of two Greek words, meaning, _running away on a horse_.