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Rh force, and the neuter gender contributes something to the depreciatory tone. Examples follow:

Nub. 260 for (Nub. 869) or  as in  (Ach. 557, Pac. 1236, Pl. 275, 619, Soph. Aj. 103, Andoc. 1, 99). See the scholiast, and Dieterich in Rhein. Mus. 48, 278 f.

Nub. 447 (= ). Cf. Bekk. Anecd. 59, 32. Like here is  in Dem. 18, 127.

, Av. 431. The comic force of these words arising from metonymy and homoeoteleuton is cumulative.

Ran. 92 (= ), quoted in Dion. H., Ars Rhet. 10, 18. Cf. Soph. Ant. 320.

Pl. 454, Eupol. 117, fr. ap. Suid. s. v., "scum of the earth" (Rogers).

Menand. fr. 913 (=, Phot., Suid.). Cf. .

adesp. 965 (=, Hesych.).

In a comic context Aristophanes uses the unusual form Ach. 1059 'beseechment', 'requestment', in place of the familiar word 'request' by a shift of termination from  to, plainly for the comic effect. is quoted from this passage by the scholiast h. l. and by Suidas s. v., and is found elsewhere only in schol. Aesch. Eum. 92, and in Hesych. s. v.

Aeschylus had a great fondness for derivatives in from verbs in, perhaps because besides having greater length