When he says, men have adjourned the investigation into all such matters, he uses the word ἀνατιθέμενος instead of ἀναβαλλόμενος.

The word ἄνηστις is used in the same sense as νῆστις, i.e. fasting (just as we find στάχυς and ἄσταχυς) by Cratinus, when he says— For you are not the first who's come to supperAfter a lengthened fast, And the word ὀξύπεινος is used by Diphilus for hungry— I'm glad when those who set them up as wise,Are naked seen and hungry. And Antiphanes says— A. At all events he's one complaint,For he is hungry ever.B. The keen Thessalian race you paint,Who can be sated never. And Eubulus says— Then Zethus was advised to seek the plain,The holy plain of Thebes; for there men sellThe cheapest loaves and cakes.Again advice came to the great Amphion,The sweet musician, pointing out to himThe famous Athens for his resting-place,Whose sons at hunger ne'er repine, but feedOn air and sweetest hopes.