Delphis says that he would have come to her door as part of a komos, a characteristic feature of the ancient erotic scenario: typically, after a drinking party (symposium)one or more revelers would come, attended by slaves, to the door of a beloved and attempt to gain entrance by persuasion, serenades, threats, force, etc. For other variations on the komos cf. e.g. Theocritus 3; Asclepiades G-P 11 = AP 5.64, G-P 12 = AP 5.145, G-P 13 = AP 5.164; Callimachus 42 Pf. = G-P 8.
