In a Greek house the women and men had each their own separate apartments. This must be borne in mind here to explain the allusion.

That is, from interested and selfish motives.

On Lais and Aristippus see Cicero, "Ad. Fam.," ix. 26.

Pausanias, i. 19, shows us that there was at Athens a Temple of Hercules called Cynosarges. But the matter is obscure. What the exact allusion is I cannot say.

Fragment of Æschylus. See Athenæus, xiii. p. 602, E, which explains the otherwise obscure allusion.