1. On Socrates in the Birds see R. Stark, Rhein. Mus. xcvi (1953), 77 ff.—who, however, sees allusions in some passages where the humour in no way requires allusion.
2. Cf. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy (Cambridge, 1962), i. 410 ff.
3. Cf. Clouds 830 n. on Diagoras of Melos (in K. J. Dover, Aristophanes’ Clouds [Oxford, 1968]).
4. Cf. W. Schmid, Philologus, xcvii (1948), 219 f., and
5. Taylor, Varia Socratica (Oxford, 1911), 148 ff.