[94] No doubt the stew-pot and the wine-jar. [95] The _article_ Bdelycleon had brought.--The clepsydra was a kind of water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in it. [96] A title of Apollo, worshipped as the god of healing. [97] A title of Apollo, because of the sacrifices, which the Athenians offered him in the streets, from [Greek: aguia], a street. [98] Bdelycleon. [99] The formula used by the president before declaring the sitting of the Court opened. [100] That is, by way of fine. [101] A reference to the peculations Laches was supposed to have practised in keeping back part of the pay of the Athenian sailors engaged in the Sicilian Expedition. [102] The [Greek: Thesmothetai] at Athens were the six junior Archons, who judged cases assigned to no special Court, presided at the allotment of magistrates, etc. [103] Thucydides, son of Milesias, when accused by Pericles, could not say a word in his own defence. One would have said his tongue was paralysed. He was banished.--He must not be confounded with Thucydides the historian, whose exile took place after the production of 'The Wasps.' [104] When the judges were touched by the pleading of the orator and were decided on acquittal, they said to the defending advocate, "_Cease speaking, descend from the rostrum._" [105] There were two urns, one called that of Conviction, the other of Acquittal. [106] Meaning, that he had at first produced pieces under the name of other poets, such as Callistrates and Phidonides. [107] Eurycles, an Athenian diviner, surnamed the Engastromythes ([Greek: muthos], speech, [Greek: en gastri], in the belly), because he was believed to be inspired by a genius within him.--The same name was also given to the priestesses of Apollo, who spoke their oracles without moving their lips. [108] Some poets misused their renown as a means of seduction among young men. [109] Cleon, whom he attacked in 'The Knights,' the first Comedy that Aristophanes had produced in his own name. [110] Cynna, like Salabaccha, was a shameless courtesan of the day. [111] The lamiae were mysterious monsters, to whom the ancients ascribed the most varied forms. They were depicted most frequently with the face and bosom of a woman and the body of a serpent. Here Aristophanes endows them with organs of virility. It was said that the blood of young men had a special attraction for them. These lines, abusive of Cleon, occur again in the 'Peace,' II. 738-42. [112] Socrates and the sophists, with whom the poet confounds him in his attacks. [113] He likens them to vampires. [114] The third Archon, whose duty was the protection of strangers. All cases involving the rights of citizenship were tried before him. These were a frequent cause of lawsuit at Athens. [115] 'The Clouds' had not been well received. [116] Aristophanes lets it be understood that the refusal to crown him arose from the fact that he had been too bold in his attack.