Rhetor. Aristophanes says: "clever man, that Phaeax; ingenious, the way he escaped death!"[1] [He was] such an eloquent orator that he even escaped death when tried after being caught in the act; he is also satirised for leading young people astray. "He's cohesive and penetrative, productive of original phrases, clear and incisive, and most excellently repressive of the vociferative. So I suppose you're give-the-fingerative to that bletherative lot".[2]