Note 22 — Chapter III · COMEDIES OF THE WAR: THE ACHARNIANS—THE PEACE—LYSISTRATA.

Their reputation has continued down to modern days. “I was able to partake of some fine eels of an extraordinary size, which had been sent to us by the Greek primates of the city. They were caught in the Lake Copais, which, as in ancient times, still supplies the country round with game and wild-fowl.”—Hughes’s Travels in Greece, i. 33. (Note to Walsh’s Aristophanes.)