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τῆς ... κατακλίσιος, ‘the marriage feast.’ Cf. i. 126. 3; ix. 16. 1.


ἐς τὸ μέσον: stories told ‘for all to hear.’ Cf. ch. 130. 1; vii. 8. δ 2.

κατέχων: rather ‘holding as with a charm’ than ‘surpassing’.

ἐμμέλειαν: strictly a ‘tragic dance’ (Aristoxenus); here simply ‘dance tune’.


σχημάτια, ‘figures’ (cf. Arist. Pax 322), including comic gestures and mimicry.

ἄλλα: idiomatic; ‘others that were Attic.’ Cf. i. 193. 3.


A. B.Cook, on rather slight grounds, sees in Hippocleides' third performance a Theban Dionysiac or Cabeiric dance (Cl.R.xxi.169;cf.232).

γε μέν, (you dance well) ‘nevertheless you have danced away your marriage.’

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