[126] Terms borrowed from the circus races.
[127] That is, at the expense of other folk.
[128] Pieces of bread, hollowed out, which were filled with mincemeat or soup.
[129] Both Greeks and Romans drank their wine mixed with water.
[130] After his success in the Sphacteria affair Cleon induced the people to vote him a chaplet of gold.
[131] That is, by means of the mechanical device of the Greek stage known as the [Greek: ekkukl_ema].
[132] Parody of a well-known verse from Euripides' 'Alcestis.'
[133] The name Agoracritus is compounded: cf. [Greek: agora], a market-place, and [Greek: krinein], to judge.
[134] This grandiloquent opening is borrowed from Pindar.
[135] Mentioned in the 'Acharnians.'