“Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you”

— Aristophanés, The Wasps

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Wasps+704 <br class="br">Wasps (422 BC)

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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

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