¹ Neil, R. A. (London, 1901), p. 118;Rogers, B. B. (London, ²1930), pp. 114–15; J. van Leeuwen (1900), pp. 148–9.Google Scholar

² (Warminster, 1981), p. 87.

³ See Rhodes, P. J., A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981), pp.516–17, who refers to two inscriptions from the third quarter of the fourth century, IG ii ² 215 and 338, which are the first to attest the office.Google Scholar

⁴ See e.g. Homer, Odyssey 3.479–80; Thucydides 1.138.5; Plato, Gorgias 518B–C. I have discussed this traditional tripartite division in CQ 44.2 (1994), 536–9.

⁵ The prepositional part of the compound verb here means ‘in addition’, and does no more than reinforce ; the participle is a dative of interest, not an indirect object. So, rightly, Neil, p. 118; cf. Sommerstein, p. 87, ‘and more than that… for her as a second helping’. Plutarch, Themistocles 19.4, was mistaken in taking the verb in the sense ‘join onto’ here. Neither Aristophanes nor the Sausage-Seller is under the erroneous impression that Themistocles built the Long Walls.

⁶ E.g. Thucydides 1.89.2–93.8; Diodorus 11.39–43; Nepos, Themistocles 6; Plutarch, Themistocles 9.1–4.

⁷ So Neil, p. 118, and Rogers, p. 114, following the explanation of the ancient lexicographers, ‘full only to the lip’; cf. LSJ, s.v. II. Whatever the precise sense of , there is clearly a contrast in the line between and .

⁸ As suggested by Neil. p. 118.

⁹ Accepted e.g. by Neil. p. 119, but mentioned only as a possibility by Sommerstein, p. 188.

¹⁰ For Cleon's apparent propensity for citing oracles to support his political proposals cf.Knights 109–17, 797–800, 966–1097, 1229–48.Google Scholar