In Aristophanes [this means] men who are cheap and base. Skiton was some fuller,[1] and a cheap one, being lampooned because of his baseness. Aristophanes [writes]: "come on Skitaloi[2] and Phenakes,"[3] quoth I, "and Bereschethoi[4] and Kobaloi[5] and Mothones,[6] and market-place in which I was brought up as a child: give me courage and a glib tongue, ease of speech and a shameless [utterance]." He made up the names, having fashioned certain shameless gods for a joke, and [the names] are presented as belonging to gods; like he was urging himself on and emboldening [himself] towards audaciousness and shamelessness. So Skitaloi [are] men who are cheap and base: for Skiton was some fuller and a cheap one, being lampooned on the basis of his baseness. Bereschethoi [are] mindless men; the term is fabricated. Koalemoi[7] [are] men who hear and perceive the unperceived. A Mothon [is] a cheap man; for the Lakones used to call men who attended freedmen 'Mothones'. [A mothon] is also a kind of dance. And the [phrase] "quoth I" means 'I said', as in Plato.[8]