*nefelokokkugi/a: po/lis para\ *)aristofa/nei peplasme/nh ei)s to\n a)e/ra ou)=sa. h(\n pai/zei e)kei=nos u(po\ o)rni/qwn pepoli/sqai.
The rendering "Cloudcuckooland", for the fantastical community created by
Aristophanes in
Birds, is doubtless too entrenched in English usage for it ever to be dislodged; note nevertheless the point, explicit here (via the
scholia to line 821), that the place is actually a city-state (polis), with all that that implies.
[1] A marginal addition in ms M.
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