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The Luck of the Draw: AR, ECC. 999
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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In the penultimate scene of the Ecclesiazusae, the young man who has come to see his lover is accosted in succession by three old women, each insisting that the new legal code requires him to sleep with her first. In lines 999–1000, the first of these old women, faced with his refusal to cooperate sexually, swears by Aphrodite
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1 Ussher, R. G., Aristophanes. Ecclesiazusae (Oxford, 1973), p. 215.Google Scholar
2 The potentially formulaic character of the phrase did not escape the notice of Merritt, B. and Wade-Gery, T., JHS 83 (1963) 110Google Scholar, who, adducing the Platonic passage, proposed it as an epigraphically plausible supplement to a decree of c. 448 B.c.: Гλ]αυκος εἶπε [τει / Ἀθενα⋯αι τει N⋯]κει hιερ⋯αν h⋯ ἂγ [κλ / ερομ⋯νε λ⋯χε]ι ⋯χς Ἀθενα⋯ον hαπα[σô / ν καθ⋯στα]σθαι IG i3. 35.3–6).