[184] The same mishap had occurred to Pisthetaerus.
[185] The Greek word for a wren, [Greek: trochilos], is derived from the same root as [Greek: trechein], to run.
[186] No doubt there was some scenery to represent a forest. Besides, there is a pun intended. The words answering for forest and door ([Greek: hul_e and thura]) in Greek only differ slightly in sound.
[187] Sophocles had written a tragedy about Tereus, in which, no doubt, the king finally appears as a hoopoe.
[188] A [Greek: para prosdokian]; one would expect the question to be "bird or man."—Are you a peacock? The hoopoe resembles the peacock inasmuch as both have crests.
[189] Athens.
[190] The Athenians were madly addicted to lawsuits. (Vide 'The Wasps.')
[191] As much as to say, Then you have such things as anti-dicasts? And Euelpides practically replies, Very few.
[192] His name was Aristocrates; he was a general and commanded a fleet sent in aid of Corcyra.
[193] The State galley, which carried the officials of the Athenian republic to their several departments and brought back those whose time had expired; it was this galley that was sent to Sicily to fetch back Alcibiades, who was accused of sacrilege.