"But he uttered something which, while foreign and simple, was nevertheless effective [and] useful: that it is necessary first to scare away the bees and then to take up the honey in a more leisurely [fashion]."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)felh/s, in reference to someone sound and complete in all parts, or large and without restraint. And [the neuter] a)fele/s likewise.[2]
"I hate the brazen woman, [sc. but] I really hate the prudish one."[3] In reference to one who is rascally and lewd.
"And to write letters simply".[4]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)felw=n pedi/wn ["of simple plains"] Aristophanes [writes as follows] about Crates:[5] "who having flowed with a lot of praise used to gush across the simple plains, and sweep up from their places and bear off the oaks and the plane trees and his enemies by the roots;[6] and in symposia it was impossible to sing anything except '[o] fig-shod Doro', and 'Makers of Skilful Songs', so popular was he. Now you don't pity him although you see him babbling, all his [lyre] pegs fallen out and the strings leaving gaping holes; but he's an old man and wanders around, just like Connas, not having any wreath, perishing from thirst, he who should be drinking in the Prytaneum on account of his former victories."[7] That is, often esteemed. For Cratinus praised himself in the Pytine, saying: "Lord Apollo, the rushing founts of the current of words, the twelve-springed source, the Ilissos of the throat; what should I say? If a person does not stop up his mouth, you will deluge their mouths."[8]