in 611, upon his return from the Senate after his triumph, he is greeted by the chorus with the words:
ὦ φίλτατ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ νεανικώτατε.
The slave Demosthenes uses μαγειρικός 216, 376, δημαγωγικός 217, and ἀνδρικῶς 379 with reference to him. When, on the other hand, Demosthenes makes the brilliant suggestion that he grease his neck with lard in order that he may slip out of the clutches of Cleon's calumnies, he in turn recognizes the cleverness of the trick and declares that it is worthy of a wrestling-master, εὖ καὶ παιδοτριβικῶς 492, just as Euelpides in Av. 362:
ὦ σοφώτατ᾽, εὖ γ᾽ ἀνηῦρες αὐτὸ καὶ στρατηγικῶς,
commends the wisdom and inventiveness of Peithetaerus for improvising armor out of kitchen-utensils, and just as Peithetaerus later (1511) shows his delight at Prometheus' ingenious and subtle device of hiding himself from Zeus under a parasol, by the words:
εὖ γ᾽ ἐπενόησας αὐτὸ καὶ προμηθικῶς.
Adopting the form of expression, εὖ καὶ followed by another adverb, that is familiar in the conversational language of Plato,[1] Aristophanes in these three passages substitutes for the second adverb, which elsewhere is a word in common use, a long one with the sophistic termination -κῶς, thereby giving a pretentious and quasi-scientific close to a familiar formula.
In the Lysistrata and Ecclesiazousae women are the innovators. They are ridiculed as θωπικαί Lys. 1037, τὸ σκυτοτομικὸν πλῆθος Eccl. 432 (cf. Pl. 787), πρᾶγμα νουβυστικόν 441, and ἱππικώτατον χρῆμα Lys. 677, neuter noun and suffix -κός both expressing something of contempt. It is fitting too that Lysistrata, the arch-innovator, should use αὐθαδικός 1116, a ἅπαξ εἰρημένον in the extant literature, instead of the usual word αὐθάδης.
Chremylus has turned his back on the past (cf. Pl. 323) and is on the road to fortune (783, 802 sq.), now that Plutus has sight and comes to dwell with him. Hence the crowd of old men who
- ↑ εὖ καὶ καλῶς Rep. 503 D, Legg. 876 C, Lach. 188 A, Conv. 184 A, Hipp. Mai. 304 AC; εὖ καὶ γενναίως Theaet. 146 C, 151 E, Gorg. 521 A; εὖ καὶ ἀνδρείως Charm. 160 E, Theaet. 157 D, Legg. 648 C, 855 A. Cf. εὖ καὶ ἐπισταμένως in the epic poets; εὖ κἀξίως Eur. Hec. 990; εὖ κἀνδρείως Plat. Com. 109, Ar. Th. 656; εὖ κἀνδρικῶς Eq. 379, Vesp. 153, 450.
