[191] As much as to say, _Then you have such things as anti-dicasts?_ And Euelpides practically replies, _Very few_. [192] His name was Aristocrates; he was a general and commanded a fleet sent in aid of Corcyra. [193] The State galley, which carried the officials of the Athenian republic to their several departments and brought back those whose time had expired; it was this galley that was sent to Sicily to fetch back Alcibiades, who was accused of sacrilege. [194] A tragic poet, who was a leper; there is a play, of course, on the Lepreum. [195] An allusion to Opuntius, who was one-eyed. [196] The newly-married ate a sesame cake, decorated with garlands of myrtle, poppies, and mint. [197] From [Greek: polein], to turn. [198] The Greek words for _pole_ and _city_ ([Greek: polos] and [Greek: polis]) only differ by a single letter. [199] Boeotia separated Attica from Phocis. [200] He swears by the powers that are to him dreadful. [201] As already stated, according to the legend, accepted by Aristophanes, it was Procné who was turned into the nightingale. [202] The son of Tereus and Procné. [203] An African bird, that comes to the southern countries of Europe, to Greece, Italy, and Spain; it is even seen in Provence. [204] Aristophanes amusingly mixes up real birds with people and individuals, whom he represents in the form of birds; he is personifying the Medians here. [205] Philocles, a tragic poet, had written a tragedy on Tereus, which was simply a plagiarism of the play of the same name by Sophocles. Philocles is the son of Epops, because he got his inspiration from Sophocles' Tereus, and at the same time is father to Epops, since he himself produced another Tereus. [206] This Hipponicus is probably the orator whose ears Alcibiades boxed to gain a bet; he was a descendant of Callias, who was famous for his hatred of Pisistratus. [207] This Callias, who must not be confounded with the foe of Pisistratus, had ruined himself. [208] Cleonymus had cast away his shield; he was as great a glutton as he was a coward. [209] A race in which the track had to be circled twice. [210] A people of Asia Minor; when pursued by the Ionians they took refuge in the mountains. [211] An Athenian barber. [212] The owl was dedicated to Athené, and being respected at Athens, it had greatly multiplied. Hence the proverb, _taking owls to Athens_, similar to our English _taking coals to Newcastle_. [213] An allusion to the Feast of Pots; it was kept at Athens on the third day of the Anthesteria, when all sorts of vegetables were stewed together and offered for the dead to Bacchus and Athené. This Feast was peculiar to Athens.--Hence Pisthetaerus thinks that the owl will recognize they are Athenians by seeing the stew-pots, and as he is an Athenian bird, he will not attack them.