One of the main characters in this work cries "bombax" then "bombalobombax" upon hearing a servant exhort the winds the be silent as the Æther.
One of the main characters in this work cries "bombax" then "bombalobombax" upon hearing a servant exhort the winds the be silent as the Æther. That character later remarks that "he only sees Cyrene" rather than that servant's master, who is clothed in a saffron tunic. One of the characters is captured after he attempts to kidnap a child that turns out to be a wineskin, and failed attempts at liberation include impersonating Echo and Andromeda and quoting lines from Helen. The chorus leader passes time by comparing Charminus with Nausimache and Cleophon with Salabaccho while threatening to roast Mnesilochus, but in the end he is rescued after his son- in-law guarantees to stop insulting women in his plays. FTP name this play by Aristophanes in which the title women wish to kill Euripides.
One of the main characters in this work cries "bombax" then "bombalobombax" upon hearing a servant exhort the winds the be silent as the Æther.
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