*kwmw|doloixw=n peri\ to\n eu)= pra/ttont' a)ei/: *)aristofa/nhs.
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1318 (web address 1); this immediately follows the quotation at the end of
kappa 2254.
The verb in this phrase is 'a lively compound found nowhere else and perhaps invented by Ar.' (D.M. MacDowell); it is rendered more loosely as 'playing the parasite' in LSJ s.v., i.e. sucking up to someone.
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