[136] A soothsayer.
[137] A flute-player.
[138] An allusion to the vice of the 'cunnilingue,' apparently a novel form of naughtiness at Athens in Aristophanes' day.
[139] As well known for his gluttony as for his cowardice.
[140] One of the most noisy demagogues of Cleon's party; he succeeded him, but was later condemned to ostracism.
[141] A town in Bithynia, situated at the entrance of the Bosphorus and nearly opposite Byzantium. It was one of the most important towns in Asia Minor. Doubtless Hyperbolus only demanded so large a fleet to terrorize the towns and oppress them at will.
[142] These temples were inviolable places of refuge, where even slaves were secure.
[143] A rocky cleft at the back of the Acropolis into which criminals were hurled.
[144] Young and effeminate orators of licentious habits.
[145] By adroit special pleading he had contrived to get his acquittal, when charged with a capital offence.