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444 descends within the space of three verses from the epic grandeur of the patronymic to the familiarity of the colloquial  (324). The latter title the Acharnians quote in a tone of resentment in 329. Amphitheus had used it in 180—'some Acharnian fellows'. Compare 'that Acharnian chap Telemachus' in Timocles 7, cf. 16. 'What! a Megarite!' cries Dicaeopolis (750), when the starved Megarian first comes to his market, and later, after rescuing him from the Informer, he says, 'Cheer up, old boy' (830).

is used in a familiar, colloquial way in the following passages: Pherecr. 145 (with contempt, cf. ), Ar. Vesp. 1076 (with self-laudation), Strattis 28, and Machon 1. In Diphil. 17 and Menand. 462, up-to-date cooks who boast of their discrimination in the kinds of food they offer to guests from various localities call Athenians, the Arcadian (cf. ), and the Ionian  (cf. , and  Dionys. Hal. Rhet. XI 5, Theocr. XVI 57).

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