perperos

Updated: May 25, 2025

One of the comedians calls him a rhopoperperethras a loud declaimer about petty matters; from rhopos, small wares, and perperos, a loud talker; and another scoffs at him for the use of antithesis: And what he took, took back; a phrase to please The very fancy of Demosthenes.

Plutarch - The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch : being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls