[66] Hitherto Aristophanes had presented his pieces under an assumed name.
[67] A comic poet, who had carried off the prize eleven times; not a fragment of his works remains to us.
[68] An allusion to the titles of some of his pieces, viz. "the Flute Players, the Birds, the Lydians, the Gnats, the Frogs."
[69] The Comic Poet, rival of Aristophanes, several times referred to above.
[70] These were the opening lines of poems by Cratinus, often sung at festivities.
[71] A poet, successful at the Olympic games, and in old age reduced to extreme misery.
[72] The place of honour in the Dionysiac Theatre, reserved for distinguished citizens.
[73] A Comic Poet, who was elegant but cold; he had at first played as an actor in the pieces of Cratinus.
[74] Besides the oarsmen and the pilot, there was on the Grecian vessels a sailor, who stood at the prow to look out for rocks, and another, who observed the direction of the wind.
[75] Two promontories, one in Attica, the other in Euboea, on which temples to Posidon were erected.