"Aren't you going to waste the offscourings, he said, and go away from us?"[1]
Aristophanes says [this word].[2] For the purification of a city they used to kill some adorned [animal],[3] which they called katharma.[4]
"And then he drags [Tithonus] into court and interrogates [him], setting traps [made] of words."[5]. There are two ways to construe this: all in one,[6] and [= or] again [with] an apostrophe after the ρ , [to produce] σκανδάληθρ’ ἱστὰς . Those who prefer the all in one [option] explain it as follows: the word comes from the phrase [τὸ ἱστάναι τὰ σκανδάληθρα , namely] the perches of the traps, because when they are triggered they close and hold in [the trap] which fell in. And the sense [is]: after dragging [Tithonus] before the tribunal he asks us [to be] co-advocates for himself and hunters of words. For the the hyperbaton[7] [would be] as follows: "then after dragging us into court and interrogating is he put out traps". Σκανδάληθρα is the name for the small bent wooden sticks in the traps, into which they fit, and which Archilochos [calls] ῥόπτρον .[7] So [Aristophanes] is saying here fixings and weights of words.