[62] Meaning, the mere beginnings of any matter. [63] This 'figure of love'--woman atop of the man--is known in Greek as [Greek: hippos] (Latin _equus_, 'the horse'); note the play upon words with the name Hippias. [64] A tragic poet, who was a great lover of good cheer, it appears. [65] Old men, who carried olive branches in the processions of the Panathenaea. Those whose great age or infirmity forbade their being used for any other purpose were thus employed. [66] An obscene pun. [Greek: Choiros] means both _a sow_ and the female organ. [67] A celebrated actor. [68] There were two tragedies named 'Niobé,' one by Aeschylus and the other by Sophocles, both now lost. [69] A double strap, which flute-players applied to their lips and was said to give softness to the tones. [70] The shell was fixed over the seal to protect it. [71] A calumniator and a traitor (see 'The Acharnians'). [72] Cleonymus, whose name the poet modifies, so as to introduce the idea of a flatterer ([Greek: kolax]). [73] Another flatterer, a creature of Cleon's. [74] Athenian poor, having no purse, would put small coins into mouth for safety. We know that the triobolus was the daily of the judges. Its value was about 4-1/2 d. [75] A jar of wine, which he had bought with his pay. [76] A jar with two long ears or handles, in this way resembling an ass. [77] A well-known flute-player. [78] We have already seen that when accepting his son's challenge he swore to fall upon his sword if defeated in the debate. [79] Pericles had first introduced the custom of sending poor citizens, among whom the land was divided, into the conquered countries. The island of Aegina had been mainly divided in this way among Athenian colonists. [80] The choenix was a measure corresponding to our quart. [81] A verse borrowed from Euripides' 'Bellerophon.' [82] i.e. a legislator. The name given in Athens to the last six of the nine Archons, because it was their special duty to see the laws respected. [83] Mentioned both in 'The Acharnians' and 'The Knights.' [84] The drachma was worth six obols, or twice the pay of a heliast. [85] We have already seen that the Athenians sometimes kept their small money in their mouth. [86] Which were placed in the courts; dogs were sacrificed on them. [87] As already stated, the statue of Lycus stood close to the place where the tribunals sat. [88] The barrier in the Heliaea, which separated the heliasts from the public. [89] The whole of this comic trial of the dog Labes is an allusion to the general Laches, already mentioned, who had failed in Sicily. He was accused of taking bribes of money from the Sicilians. [90] To serve for a bar. [91] This was a customary formula, [Greek: aph' Estias archou], "begin from Hestia," first adore Vesta, the god of the family hearth. In similar fashion, the Romans said, _ab Jove principium_. [92] For conviction and acquittal. [93] On which the sentence was entered.