Not being able to refute my arguments,M. Chantry, ed., Scholia Vetera in Aristophanis Plutum (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1994), p. 102:
you chatter at random and exert yourself to no purpose.
καὶ σύ γ᾽ ἐλέγξαι μ᾽ οὔπω δύνασαι περὶ τούτου,
ἀλλὰ φλυαρεῖς καὶ πτερυγίζεις. 575
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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An Unskilled Debater
Aristophanes, Wealth 574-575 (tr. anon.):
