χ297Χιανεύει καὶ λαικάζει
he is smelting ... and going whoring
Aristophanes [writes]: Agathon is beginning "to put in the stocks the beginnings of a drama. He is bending new felloes of verses; some he is turning on the lathe, others he is patching together; and he is coining maxims…
Χιανεύει καὶ λαικάζει· Ἀριστοφάνης. Ἀγάθων ἄρχεται δρυόχους τιθέναι δράματος ἀρχάς· κάμπτει δὲ νέας ἁψίδας ἐπῶν· τὰ δὲ τορεύει, τὰ δὲ κολλομελεῖ καὶ γνωμοτυπεῖ κἀντονομάζει καὶ…