The etymology is not explicit here, but rather evident: τροπαῖον and τρόπων are placed at the beginning and at the end of the same verse. Aristophanes is here playing on a semantic confusion between the military register of τροπαῖον and the moral one of τρόπος. A similar etymological wordplay, but even more implicit, is found in Aeschylum, Sept., 953–956: τελευτᾷ δ’αἵδ’ἐπηλάλαξαν /Άραὶ τὸν ὀξὺν νόμον,/τετραμμένου παντρόπῳ φυγᾷ γένους·/ἕστακεν Ἄτας τροπαῖον ἐν πύλαις, where the poet makes a link between τετραμμένος, παντρόπῳ and τροπαῖον. However, explicit commentaries on τροπαῖον rightly derive the word from τροπή, "flight".