descends within the space of three verses from the epic grandeur of the patronymic Ἀχαρνηίδαι to the familiarity of the colloquial Ἀχαρνικοί (324). The latter title the Acharnians quote in a tone of resentment in 329. Amphitheus had used it in 180—'some Acharnian fellows'. Compare 'that Acharnian chap Telemachus' in Timocles 7, cf. 16. 'What! a Megarite!' cries Dicaeopolis (750), when the starved Megarian first comes to his market, and later, after rescuing him from the Informer, he says, 'Cheer up, old boy' (830).
Ἀττικός is used in a familiar, colloquial way in the following passages: Pherecr. 145 (with contempt, cf. ὁ κατάρατος), Ar. Vesp. 1076 (with self-laudation), Strattis 28, and Machon 1. In Diphil. 17 and Menand. 462, up-to-date cooks who boast of their discrimination in the kinds of food they offer to guests from various localities call Athenians Ἀττικοί, the Arcadian Ἀρκαδικός (cf. Ἀρκάς), and the Ionian Ἰωνικός (cf. Ἴωνες, and Ἴων Dionys. Hal. Rhet. XI 5, Theocr. XVI 57).
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