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According to the ancients she has had two namesakes, a very pretty and accomplished poetess and a famous Athenian courtesan. It was the latter whom the comic poet meant when he said, “Yon fly him to the heart did bite.”Unknown (Kock, adesp. 475). From this you see that comic wit has not disdained the name of fly nor barred it from the boards, and that parents have not been ashamed to give it to their daughters. As for tragedy, it, too, mentions the fly with great praise; for example, in these words: 'Tis strange that while the fly with hardy strength Encounters man to sate itself with gore, Stout men-at-arms should fear the foeman’s lance! unknown (Nauck, Tag. Graec. Fragm., adesp. I could also say a great deal about Muia, the Pytha gorean, if her story were not known to everyone. Very little of her story is known to us. She is said to have been daughter of Pythagoras and wife of Milo, the athlete of Croton.
