Quote #42688
A savage-creating stubborn-pulling fellow,
Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech,
Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent.
Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech,
Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent.
Aristophanes
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Interpretation
The lines caricature a type of aggressive, obstinate speaker whose rhetoric is both unrestrained and self-consciously grand. The piling up of hyphenated epithets (“savage-creating,” “stubborn-pulling”) mimics the very excess it mocks, while “uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech” frames the target as someone who cannot—or will not—submit to civic or conversational limits. The comic coinage “bombastiloquent” (bombastic + loquacious) sharpens the satire: the speaker’s bluntness (“unperiphrastic,” i.e., not circumlocutory) is not a virtue but another form of verbal violence, producing noise and conflict rather than clarity. In Aristophanic terms, it lampoons rhetorical bravado as a social danger.



