 The fourth-century AD Pseudo-Lucianic dialogue "Erōtes" cites Philaenis as an example of "tribadic licentiousness" and claims that she used a strap-on dildo for the sake of "androgynous loves".A "scholium" on the passage remarks that Philocrates, an Athenian comic playwright, had described Philaenis as a "hetairistria" and a "tribas" ("tribade").This is the only known reference to a comic playwright by this name.