Collytus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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Against Timarchus
An Athenian deme, named as the setting of the rural Dionysia performance in which a comic joke about 'Timarchian prostitutes' occurred.
He, beautiful to look upon, is so far from reproach, that the other day at the rural Dionysia when the comedies were being played in Collytus, and when Parmenon the comic actor addressed a certain anapaestic verse to the chorus, in which certain persons were referred to as big Timarchian prostitutes, nobody thought of it as aimed at the youth, but, one and all, as meant for you, so unquestioned is …