The headword phrase comes from Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1101 (web address 1), and the substance of the entry from the fuller scholia on it.
The name Phryne is also a lower-case noun, meaning 'toad' (phi 768), but neither ancient nor modern commentators agree on the precise significance of the lekythos here; perhaps a cosmetic box (suggesting heavy camouflage of a wrinkled face), but possibly an allusion to funereal oil-flasks (implying that the woman has one foot in the grave). See generally Ussher (below) 225-6.