P. 17. Koppa-marked. Race-horses of the best breed were marked with the old letter Koppa.

P. 18. Comic Platon. The comic writer of that name:  author of plays and poems, not THE Plato.

P. 21. Salabaccho. Name of a courtesan.

P. 30. Cheek-band. Band worn by trumpeters to support the cheeks. Cuckoo-apple. Fruit so-called=fool-making food. Threttanelo, Neblaretai.  Imitative sounds:  1.  Of a harp-string. 2.  Of any joyous cry. Three-days’ salt-fish slice. Allowance of a soldier on an expedition. (It was supposed that at the end of this time he could forage for himself.)

P. 31. Goat’s breakfast and other abuse. Indecent allusions, to be fancied, not explained.

P. 32. Sham Ambassadors. Characters in the Acharnians. Kudathenian. Famous Athenian. Pandionid. Descendant of Pandion, King of Athens. Goat-Song. Tragoedia—­Tradegy.  It was called goat-song because a goat-skin, probably filled with wine, was once given as a prize for it.  The expression occurs in Shelley.

P. 33. Willow-Wicker Flask. Nickname of the poet it is applied to, a toper.

P. 36. Lyric Shell or Tragic Barbiton. Lesser and larger lyre.

P. 38. Sousarion. Susarion of Megara, inventor of Attic comedy. Chionides. His successor.

P. 39. Little-in-the-Fields. The Dionysian Feast; a lesser one than the City Dionysia.

P. 40. Ameipsias. A comic poet, contemporary with Aristophanes, whose two best plays he beat.

P. 42. Iostephanos. “Violet-crowned,” name of Athens. Kleophon. A demagogue of bad character, attacked by Aristophanes as profligate, and an enemy of peace. Kleonumos. A similar character; also a big fellow, and great coward.

P. 43. Telekleides. Old comic poet, on the same side as Aristophanes. Mullos and Euetes. Comic poets who revived the art of comedy in Athens after Susarion.

P. 44. Morucheides. Son of Morychus—­like his father, a comic poet and a glutton. Sourakosios. Another comic poet.

P. 46. Trilophos. Wearer of three crests on his helmet.

P. 47. Ruppapai. Word used by the crew in rowing—­hence, the crew itself.

P. 49. Free dinner in the Prutaneion. (Prytaneion.) Such was accorded to certain privileged persons. Ariphrades. A man of infamous character, singer to the harp:  persistently attacked by Aristophanes. Karkinos. Comic actor:  had famous dancing sons.

P. 50. Exomis. A woman’s garment. Parachoregema. Subordinate chorus, which sings in the absence of the principal one. Aristullos. Bad character satirized by Aristophanes, and used in one of his plays as a travesty of Plato.  This incident, and Plato’s amused indifference, are mentioned at p. 137 of the Apology.