 Aristophanes alludes to Ameipsias in "The Frogs", and we are told in the anonymous life of Aristophanes, that when Aristophanes first exhibited his plays under the names of other poets, Ameipsias applied to him the Greek proverb , which means "a person who labours for others," an allusion to Heracles, who was born on the fourth of the month.Ameipsias wrote many comedies, out of which there remain only a few fragments of the following six plays