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440 immediately swarm about him and make a show of their friendship as soon as his good fortune becomes known, he calls (787, cf.  Vesp. 540). The Youth has likewise been made wealthy through the recovery of Plutus' sight (968, 1004), and in consequence spurns his former love; when he sees the multitude of wrinkles in the face of his (cf. 1082–3), he exclaims (1050):

In a few instances there is a deliberate change from the usual termination of a word to the fashionable for the comic effect, when no special reason for the employment of such a sophistic form appears in the context and surrounding circumstances.

for, translated "beautisome" by Professor Gildersleeve, occurs first in Crates 40:

then in the merry phallic song Ach. 263 sq., where the scholiast reports that Aristophanes had previously used in the Banqueters (fr. 235), and finally in Pl. 963, used of the wrinkled old woman who is dressed in girlish costume like a coquette and affects to be young.

Ran. 128 'walkist' for. Cf. Poll. III 92; Bekk. An. 55, 20.

Alcae. Com. 9. No context to show the tone of the passage. Cf. and.

in Ran. 715 has a different meaning from in Eq. 805. The former denotes character, 'a man of peace', 'a peace man', the latter a state or condition, 'at peace'. There is therefore no comic purpose here. It is this characterizing force of formations in that makes them so well adapted for use as adverbs.

is found in the early plays only (Ach. to Pax); 18 out of the 21 occurrences of are in the later plays (Av. to Pl.). is used as an adverb in three-fourths of its occurrences, viz. Eq. 81, 82, 379, 451, 453, 599, Vesp. 153, 450, Pac. 478, 498, 515, 1307; where occurs (Pac. 732, Th. 656, Ran. 372),