Senex puellam amans
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Andrea Alciato 's "Senex puellam amans"
- When Sophocles, in spite of his advanced years, induced the courtesan Aganippe to fulfil his desires, winning her over by the reward he offered, Archippus [her lover, the comic poet] was filled with indignation. Mad with jealousy, he lampooned both of them with this verse: As a night owl perches on a tomb, as an eagle owl on corpses, so my girl sits with Sophocles.
- (A story taken from Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 13.592b. Sophocles is the great tragic poet, of whom several such tales were told. He made Aganippe the beneficiary under his will. But Alciato (and so his translators) confuse Aganippe (the courtesan) with Archippus (the comic poet). Andrea Alciato: Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584) [1]
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