This character apologizes to a group of women who want to murder him so that they will not interfere with his attempts to free his elderly relative (*) Mnesilochus.
When a man asks whether this character is home, a slave answers that "he is and he isn't." This character is then "wheeled out" onto the scene and agrees to give away a beggar's rags, cap, and staff, a chipped cup, and a pot with a sponge for a stopper, but not any of his mother's chervil. This character apologizes to a group of women who want to murder him so that they will not interfere with his attempts to free his elderly relative (*) Mnesilochus. This character addresses a prayer to the ether, his tongue, his nose, and his wit in a play in which he is repeatedly interrupted by a rival who shouts, "Lost his little flask of oil!" at the end of this character's lines. In that play, this character's descriptions of the Argo, persuasion, and an iron club do not weigh as much as the words of his opponent, so Dionysus leaves him in the underworld. For 10 points, name this recurring Aristophanes character who loses a poetry contest to Aeschylus in The Frogs, the real-life author of The Bacchae.
When a man asks whether this character is home, a slave answers that "he is and he isn't.
Euripides