[676] The Chorus addresses the leaders amongst the women by the names of men. Charitimides was commander of the Athenian navy.
[677] The countryfolk affected to despise the townspeople, whom they dubbed idle and lazy.
[678] The fee of the citizens who attended the Assembly had varied like that of the dicasts, or jurymen.
[679] An Athenian general, who gained brilliant victories over the Thebans during the period prior to the Peloponnesian war.
[680] A dithyrambic poet, and notorious for his dissoluteness; he was accused of having daubed the statues of Hecate at the Athenian cross-roads with ordure.
[681] The women wore yellow tunics, called [Greek: krok_otoi], because of their colour.
[682] This Thrasybulus, not to be confounded with the more famous Thrasybulus, restorer of the Athenian democracy, in 403 B.C., had undertaken to speak against the Spartans, who had come with proposals of peace, but afterwards excused himself, pretending to be labouring under a sore throat, brought on by eating wild pears (B.C. 393). The Athenians suspected him of having been bribed by the Spartans.
[683] A coined word, derived from [Greek: achras], a wild pear.
[684] Amynon was not a physician, according to the Scholiast, but one of those orators called [Greek: europr_oktoi] (laticuli) 'wide-arsed,' because addicted to habits of pathic vice, and was invoked by Blepyrus for that reason.
[685] A doctor notorious for his dissolute life.