"[who said: "we are caught] not by others but by our own feathers". For Aeschylus calls this a Libyan proverb. There is a story in Libyan myths that an eagle, struck by an arrow from a bow and seeing the manner of the fletching, said: "we are caught in this way not by others but by our own feathers"[1] And so we, [Aristophanes] is saying, are suffering these things not at the hands of others, but by our own decision. “From our own feathers”, meaning we have done these things to ourselves.