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442 ( for 'gullet'), and  Ar. Vesp. 1132 (in so far as it refers to 'an old cloak'), all deal with domestic matters.

Ran. 1386, Pl. 1063 ,  Pac. 429, Eupol. 396, Ar. Eccl. 432 . As those engaged in trade were not highly esteemed, the words to which the termination is here added do not stand on a high level.

Such comic coinages as and  are ill-adapted to have the serious suffix.

These in the main denote things rather than persons. There are a dozen exceptions in the extant literature before Aristophanes. This number does not include the Persian word (Hdt. I 125) nor the Italic  (I 94; IV 49), nor the neuter  (Thuc. VII, 13, 2), since no other adjective with a neuter form was available; nor does it embrace a long list of adjj. in modifying such collective nouns as, or used in the neuter with the article in the sense of a collective. The exceptions follow: Hom. Il. XVI 233—"no approach here to the later meaning of the suffix" (Monro); [Eur.] Rhes. 738—a Homeric reminiscence; Eur. Ion. 1219, Andr. 1103—the epithet belongs to Apollo, cf. Aesch. Ag. 509, Cho. 1030; Aesch. Suppl. 279, Eur. Tro. 707—cf. Dittenberger, Hermes XLII 31 sq., 161 sq.; Hdt. III 134— is the correct form of the feminine of, cf. Eustath. on Hom. Il., p. 84, 12, and Hermes XLII 10 sq.; Hdt. III 125, IX 102—cf. Hermes XLII 20; Hdt. IV 108—'Greek-like' rather than 'Greek', i. e. 'having the attributes and qualities of the Greek gods' without being distinctly and wholly Greek; Solon 2 (Bergk)—used in place of  for the sake of the sneer; and  Alcae. 32 expresses perhaps the same contempt, but the text is uncertain.