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grbs-6611	Stern, Jacob	Herodas’ Mimiamb 1	1981	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2548	96	64	Six times in the course of the dialogue the interlocutors swear oaths: twice (11, 66) by the Moirai, whom Rose has argued we are to understand in this context as goddesses of fertility;2 twice (69, 86) by the goddess Demeter; once (85) by Jla, probably the Mother of the gods;3 and once (32) by T~V ':4I~BW KovP1Jv, taken most natu- 1 Opinions vary: J. A. NAIRN, The Mimes of Herodas (Oxford 1904) 1, and P. GROENE­ BOOM, Les Mimiambes d'Herodas I-VI (Groningen 1922) 35, for example, assert that Metriche is wife; on the other hand, I. C. CUNNINGHAM, Herodas Mimiambi (Oxford 1971) 57, repeating a view stated in CR N.S. 15 (1965) 7 n.l, argues that she is probably a iTaipa. Metriche, sitting in her home, is visited by her old friend Gyllis; Mandris, the lover or perhaps the husband of Metriche, l has been gone for the past ten months in Egypt.	cache/grbs-6611.pdf	txt/grbs-6611.txt