[674] An obscene allusion; [Greek: hupokrouein] means both _pulsare_ and _subagitare_,--to strike, and also to move to the man in sexual intercourse. [675] In order to vote. [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. [686] The Grecian goddess who presided over child-birth. [687] He is afraid lest some comic poet should surprise him in his ridiculous position and might cause a laugh at his expense upon the stage. [688] In accordance with a quaint Athenian custom a rope daubed with vermilion was drawn across from end to end of the Agora (market-place) by officials of the city at the last moment before the Ecclesia, or Public Assembly, was to meet. Any citizen trying to evade his duty to be present was liable to have his white robe streaked red, and so be exposed to general ridicule on finally putting in an appearance on the Pnyx. [689] A parody on a verse in 'The Myrmidons' of Aeschylus.--Antilochus was the son of Nestor; he was killed by Memnon, when defending his father. [690] See above. [691] He was very poor, and his cloak was such a mass of holes that one might doubt his having one at all. This surname, Evaeon ([Greek: eu ai_on], delicious life) had doubtless been given him on the 'lucus a non' principle because of his wretchedness. [692] Apparently a wealthy corn-factor.