Note 21 — Chapter III · COMEDIES OF THE WAR: THE ACHARNIANS—THE PEACE—LYSISTRATA.
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Of course every Athenian would be amused by the parody of the well-remembered scene in the Iliad:—
“The babe clung crying to his nurse’s breast, Scared at the dazzling helm and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hastened to relieve his child; The glittering terrors from his brow unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground.”