[32] Used for closing the chimney, when needed.
[33] Which had been stretched all round the courtyard to prevent his escape.
[34] Market-day.
[35] He enters the courtyard, returning with the ass, under whose belly Philocleon is clinging.
[36] In the Odyssey (Bk. IX) Homer makes his hero, 'the wily' Odysseus, escape from the Cyclops' cave by clinging on under a ram's belly, which slips past its blinded master without noticing the trick played on him. Odysseus, when asked his name by the Cyclops, replies, Outis, Nobody.
[37] A name formed out of two Greek words, meaning, running away on a horse.
[38] The story goes that a traveller who had hired an ass, having placed himself in its shadow to escape the heat of the sun, was sued by the driver, who had pretended that he had let the ass, not but its shadow; hence the Greek proverb, to quarrel about the shade of an ass, i.e. about nothing at all.
[39] When you inherit from me.
[40] There is a similar incident in the 'Plaideurs.'
[41] A Macedonian town in the peninsula of Pallené; it had shaken off the Athenian yoke and was not retaken for two years.