Kallias is a butt of comedy for having lost all his money. For, as [someone] well-bred, he is being plucked by blackmail/sykophancy. The females are plucking out his feathers. For he became a poor man when he had spent his patrimony on whores.
Also [sc. attested is the lower-case noun] kallias,[1] [meaning] an ape. For the Attic-writers are in the habit of applying euphemisms to unattractive nouns. And so they named the ape a kallias. Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Pytheas [writes]: "no, I think, just like those rearing kalliai in their households."[2] That is, apes. And thus they also call the Erinyes Eumenides.[3]