An Abydene dessert

Explanation

said of unpleasant things. Eudoxus mentions it in his Hypobolimaeus. They say the Abydenes had the custom, after the dinner and libations, of bringing in their children with their nurses to the diners; with the children bawling and the nurses making a racket, the guests found it most disagreeable. The proverb is also said to derive from the Abydenes' habit of laying false charges against foreigners — whence Aristophanes called the sycophant "Abydocomes."