rag-stitcher

Updated: May 21, 2025

"It may be observed that while Euripides accuses AEschylus of being 'pomp-bundle-worded, which I suppose means bombastic and given to rodomontade, AEschylus retorts on Euripides that he is a 'gossip gleaner, a describer of beggars, and a rag-stitcher, from which it may be inferred that he was truer to the life of his own times than AEschylus was.

Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh