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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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2018
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Smicythes, King of Thrace, spoken of in the oracle as a woman, doubtless on account of his cowardice. The word pursue is here used in a double sense, viz. in battle and in law. It is on account of this latter meaning, that Aristophanes adds "and her spouse," because in cases in which women were sued at law, their husbands were summoned as conjointly liable.
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Because he had smashed up and turned upside down the fortunes of Athens.
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The pun—rather a far-fetched one—is between the words [Greek: D_orh_osti] (in the Dorian mode) and [Greek: d_orhon] (a bribe).
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A Boeotian soothsayer.
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A name invented by the Sausage-seller on the spur of the moment, to cap Cleon's boast.
113
That is, Athenian; Erectheus was an ancient mythical King of Athens.
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That is, the tributes paid to Athens by the Aegaean Islands, whether allies or subjects.
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The Lacedaemonian prisoners from Sphacteria, so often referred to.
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That is, Athenian; Cecrops was the first King of Athens, according to the legends.
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There were three towns of this name in different parts of Greece.
118
There is a pun here which it is impossible to render in English; the Greek [Greek: Pylos](Pylos) differs by only one letter from the word meaning a bath-tub ([Greek: Pyelos]).
119
Cleon was reproached by his enemies with paying small attention to the regular payment of the sailors.
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Another poetical term to signify Athenian; Aegeus, an ancient mythical King of Athens, father of Theseus.
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Impudent as a dog and cunning as a fox.
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An orator and statesman of the day; practically nothing is known about him.
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Another orator and statesman, accused apparently of taking bribes.
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As pointed out before, the orators were fond of dragging Athené continually into their speeches.
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One of Cleon's protégés and flatterers. The scholiasts say he was his secretary.
126
Terms borrowed from the circus races.
127
Terms borrowed from the circus races.
128
That is, at the expense of other folk.
129
Pieces of bread, hollowed out, which were filled with mincemeat or soup.
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Both Greeks and Romans drank their wine mixed with water.
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After his success in the Sphacteria affair Cleon induced the people to vote him a chaplet of gold.
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That is, by means of the mechanical device of the Greek stage known as the [Greek: ekkukl_ema].
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