[132] An effeminate poet.
[133] He compares the thick, shaggy stuff of the pelisse to the intestines of a bullock, which have a sort of crimped and curled look.
[134] An Attic talent was equal to about fifty-seven pounds avoirdupois.
[135] He grumbles over his own good fortune, as old men will.
[136] Lamia, the daughter of Belus and Libya, was loved by Zeus. Heré deprived her of her beauty and instilled her with a passion for blood; she is said to have plucked babes from their mothers' breast to devour them. Weary of her crimes, the gods turned her into a beast of prey.
[137] Theagenes, of the Acharnian deme, was afflicted with a weakness which caused him to be constantly letting off loud, stinking farts, even in public—the cause of many gibes on the part of the Comic poets and his contemporaries.
[138] He had been sent on a mission as an armed ambassador, i.e. as a common soldier, whose pay was two obols.
[139] The [Greek: pankration] was a combined exercise, including both wrestling and boxing.
[140] All these names have been already mentioned.
[141] Each time Philocleon takes up the song with words that are a satire on the guest who begins the strain.