Note 268 — Chapter II · Athens

Hdt. I. 60; Aristot. Ath. Pol. 14; Athen. 609c; Polyaen. I. 21. 1; Val. Max. I. 2. 2 (ext.); Hermog. περὶ εὑρεσ. I. 3. 21 (ed. Spengel); cp. schol. ibid. ap. Walzium, Rhet. Gr. V. p. 378. In schol. Aristoph. Eq. 447 Phye appears to be confused with Myrrina who appears to have been either wife (ibid.) or daughter (schol. Dem. Aristoc.) of Peisistratus or more probably wife of Hippias (Thuc., and Hesych. s.v. Βυρσίνης). Athenaeus marries Phye to Hipparchus. The confusion may possibly be due to the fact that myrrina, as a common noun, sometimes means garland (e.g. Pherecr. Metall. I. 25; Aristoph. Vesp. 861; Nub. 1364, etc.), while Phye is described as a garland seller (Ath. Pol. and Athen.).