[259] The 'Mother of the Gods'; roaming the mountains, she held dances, always attended by Pan and his accompanying rout of Fauns and Satyrs. [260] An allusion to cock-fighting; the birds are armed with brazen spurs. [261] An allusion to the spots on this bird, which resemble the scars left by a branding iron. [262] He was of Asiatic origin, but wished to pass for an Athenian. [263] Or Philamnon, King of Thrace; the Scholiast remarks that the Phrygians and the Thracians had a common origin. [264] The Greek word here, [Greek: pappos], is also the name of a little bird. [265] A basket-maker who had become rich.--The Phylarchs were the headmen of the tribes, [Greek: Phulai]. They presided at the private assemblies and were charged with the management of the treasury.--The Hipparchs, as the name implies, were the leaders of the cavalry; there were only two of these in the Athenian army. [266] He had now become a senator, member of the [Greek: Boul_e]. [267] Pisthetaerus and Euelpides now both return with wings. [268] Meaning, 'tis we who wanted to have these wings.--The verse from Aeschylus, quoted here, is taken from 'The Myrmidons,' a tragedy of which only a few fragments remain. [269] The Greek word signified the city of Sparta, and also a kind of broom used for weaving rough matting, which served for the beds of the very poor. [270] A fanciful name constructed from [Greek: nephel_e], a cloud, and [Greek: kokkux], a cuckoo; thus a city of clouds and cuckoos.--_Wolkenkukelheim_[*] is a clever approximation in German. Cloud-cuckoo-town, perhaps, is the best English equivalent. [* Transcriber's note: So in original. The correct German word is _Wolkenkuckucksheim_.] [271] He was a boaster nicknamed [Greek: Kapnos], _smoke_, because he promised a great deal and never kept his word. [272] Also mentioned in 'The Wasps.' [273] Because the war of the Titans against the gods was only a fiction of the poets. [274] A sacred cloth, with which the statue of Athené in the Acropolis was draped. [275] Meaning, to be patron-goddess of the city. Athené had a temple of this name. [276] An Athenian effeminate, frequently ridiculed by Aristophanes. [277] This was the name of the wall surrounding the Acropolis. [278] i.e. the fighting-cock. [279] To waken the sentinels, who might else have fallen asleep.--There are several merry contradictions in the various parts of this list of injunctions. [280] In allusion to the leather strap which flute-players wore to constrict the cheeks and add to the power of the breath. The performer here no doubt wore a raven's mask. [281] Hellanicus, the Mitylenian historian, tells that this surname of Artemis is derived from Colaenus, King of Athens before Cecrops and a descendant of Hermes. In obedience to an oracle he erected a temple to the goddess, invoking her as Artemis Colaenis (the Artemis of Colaenus). [282] This Cleocritus, says the Scholiast, was long-necked and strutted like an ostrich.