Aristophanes

πικρὸν με ἀπαιτεῖς ἐνοίκιον → you ask too much of me, you demand a bitter rent from me

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Ἀριστοφάνης, -ους, ὁ.

Ăristŏphănes: is, m., = Ἀριστοφάνης.
The most distinguished comic poet of Greece, from Lindus, on the island of Rhodes, a contemporary of Socrates, Hor. S. 1, 4, 1.—Hence,
   B Derivv.,
   1    Ări-stŏphănēus or -īus, a, um, adj., Aristophanean: anapaestus Aristophanius, Cic. Or. 56, 190: metrum, Serv. Centim. p. 1818 P.—
   2    Ăristŏphănĭcus, a, um, adj., the same, Hier. ad Isa. l. 15, c. 54, v. 11.—
II A distinguished grammarian of Byzantium, pupil of Eratosthenes, and teacher of the critic Aristarchus, Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 132; id. Fin. 5, 19, 50; id. Att. 16, 11.

Ăristŏphănēs,¹⁵ is, m. (Ἀριστοφάνης), Aristophane
1 le célèbre poète comique d’Athènes : Cic. Leg. 2, 37 ; Hor. S. 1, 4, 1