(667), he knows that Vortex reigns in place of Zeus, and he has imbibed the Protagorean doctrine of gender. Hence, when his son swears by Olympian Zeus (817), he reproves him for his folly and tells him that his notions are antiquated (φρονεῖς ἀρχαιϊκά), thus using ἀρχαιϊκός in place of the usual ἀρχαῖος,[1] whereas later on (1469) in a similar expression (ἀρχαῖος εἶ) and under similar circumstances his son Phidippides uses ἀρχαῖος, not ἀρχαιϊκός, for though he had been in training he had not followed the sophists willingly, and does not use a single -κός form in the whole play. Yielding reluctantly to his father's demand, Phidippides goes to the thinking-shop in his stead and witnesses the contest between the δίκαιος λόγος and the ἄδικος λόγος; and now on his return, after having been fully instructed by the latter, he is greeted by his glad father with the words[2] (1172–73):
νῦν μέν γ᾽ ἰδεῖν εἶ πρῶτον ἐξαρνητικὸς
κἀντιλογικός,
words well adapted to start him out on his new sophistic life. It is again the would-be sophist Strepsiades, proud of his knowledge of gender, who uses εὐηθικῶς[3] (1258) in place of εὐήθως when the money-lender Pasias calls the kneading-trough κάρδοπος instead of καρδόπη, the form of the word which the feminine gender seems to Strepsiades to warrant.
The Κόννος of Amipsias was produced at the same time (423 B. C.) as the Clouds, winning the second prize over it. The chorus is composed of φροντισταί, and Socrates is introduced in his τρίβων either as an actor or as one of the chorus. As he enters, his fellow-φροντισταί salute him and call him καρτερικός[4] (fr. 9) instead of καρτερός. Note also κομψευριπικῶς in Ar. Eq. 18, a fling at the subtleties of Euripides.
Cooks were kitchen-philosophers, grandiloquent and pompous; hence νησιωτικὰ ξενύδρια Menand. 462, δειπνητικός Anaxip. 1, 36,
- ↑ Cf. 915, 984, 1357, Vesp. 1336, Pl. 323, Eupol. 139. See also ἀρχαιϊκός in Antiph. 44.
- ↑ With ἐξαρνητικός, a ἅπαξ εἰρ., compare ἔξαρνος Nub. 1230, Pl. 241. ἀντιλογικός is common in Plato.
- ↑ Cf. εὐηϑικῶς in the saucy dialogue of Eccl. 520 sq. εὐήϑης occurs in fr. 671. εὐηϑικός is found in Plat. Rep. 343 C; 529 B; Charm. 175 D; Hipp. Mai. 301 D.
- ↑ καρτερικός occurs also in Xen. Mem. I, 2, 1 (applied to Socrates), III, 1, 6 (where adjj. in -κός are crowded together; see above pp. 431, 432), Hippocr. περὶ εὐσχ. 3 (similar crowding), Isocr. VIII 109.
