And what are
masculine
names?
Aristophanes
SOCRATES. In this manner you make it truly female.
STREPSIADES. That's it! _Her_ for trough and _her_ for Cleonymus. [537]
SOCRATES. Now I must teach you to distinguish the masculine proper names
from those that are feminine.
STREPSIADES. Ah! I know the female names well.
SOCRATES. Name some then.
STREPSIADES. Lysilla, Philinna, Clitagora, Demetria.
SOCRATES.
And what are masculine names?
STREPSIADES. They are countless--Philoxenus, Melesias, Amynias.
SOCRATES. But, wretched man, the last two are not masculine.
STREPSIADES. You do not reckon them masculine?
SOCRATES. Not at all. If you met Amynias, how would you hail him?
STREPSIADES. How? Why, I should shout, "Hi! hither, Amyni_a_! "[538]
SOCRATES. Do you see?
