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Rh in 611, upon his return from the Senate after his triumph, he is greeted by the chorus with the words:

The slave Demosthenes uses 216, 376,  217, and  379 with reference to him. When, on the other hand, Demosthenes makes the brilliant suggestion that he grease his neck with lard in order that he may slip out of the clutches of Cleon's calumnies, he in turn recognizes the cleverness of the trick and declares that it is worthy of a wrestling-master, 492, just as Euelpides in Av. 362:

commends the wisdom and inventiveness of Peithetaerus for improvising armor out of kitchen-utensils, and just as Peithetaerus later (1511) shows his delight at Prometheus' ingenious and subtle device of hiding himself from Zeus under a parasol, by the words:

Adopting the form of expression, followed by another adverb, that is familiar in the conversational language of Plato, Aristophanes in these three passages substitutes for the second adverb, which elsewhere is a word in common use, a long one with the sophistic termination, thereby giving a pretentious and quasi-scientific close to a familiar formula.

In the Lysistrata and Ecclesiazousae women are the innovators. They are ridiculed as Lys. 1037, Eccl. 432 (cf. Pl. 787), 441, and  Lys. 677, neuter noun and suffix both expressing something of contempt. It is fitting too that Lysistrata, the arch-innovator, should use 1116, a  in the extant literature, instead of the usual word.

Chremylus has turned his back on the past (cf. Pl. 323) and is on the road to fortune (783, 802 sq.), now that Plutus has sight and comes to dwell with him. Hence the crowd of old men who