Διαθήκην διαθώμεθα ἣν διέθετο πίθηκος τῇ γυναικί

['Arrangement'] meaning agreement. For a certain person, ugly to look at, was continually quarrelling with his wife, and he made an arrangement, with his friends as witnesses, neither to beat nor to be beaten, nor to bite -- since he loved [her] -- nor be bitten. In effect, you will not yank my testicles, nor I your hair. He seems to be lampooning Panaitios, as he also does in Islands, leaving behind[?] a guiltless¹ ape. There he also says that his father was a cook.² 'Ape' because of his scurrilousness, and a 'knife-maker' is one who works with knives, such as a cook. For this reason, then he calls him a 'knife-maker'. For Panaitios was a cook of short stature. Aristophanes slanders him by saying that he caught his wife in the midst of debauchery; he was dominated by her since she was big.