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Rh (667), he knows that Vortex reigns in place of Zeus, and he has imbibed the Protagorean doctrine of gender. Hence, when his son swears by Olympian Zeus (817), he reproves him for his folly and tells him that his notions are antiquated, thus using in place of the usual , whereas later on (1469) in a similar expression  and under similar circumstances his son Phidippides uses , not , for though he had been in training he had not followed the sophists willingly, and does not use a single  form in the whole play. Yielding reluctantly to his father's demand, Phidippides goes to the thinking-shop in his stead and witnesses the contest between the and the ; and now on his return, after having been fully instructed by the latter, he is greeted by his glad father with the words (1172–73):

words well adapted to start him out on his new sophistic life. It is again the would-be sophist Strepsiades, proud of his knowledge of gender, who uses (1258) in place of  when the money-lender Pasias calls the kneading-trough  instead of, the form of the word which the feminine gender seems to Strepsiades to warrant.

The of Amipsias was produced at the same time (423 B. C.) as the Clouds, winning the second prize over it. The chorus is composed of, and Socrates is introduced in his either as an actor or as one of the chorus. As he enters, his fellow- salute him and call him (fr. 9) instead of. Note also in Ar. Eq. 18, a fling at the subtleties of Euripides.

Cooks were kitchen-philosophers, grandiloquent and pompous; hence Menand. 462, Anaxip. 1, 36,