The text presents a crux of textual transmission and dialectal form. While the standard Attic form would be τὰς ψάμμους τοὺς Πέρσας (or the accusative plural τοὺς Πέρσας with the article τοὺς), the manuscript tradition here preserves the Doric forms τᾶς and τοὶ. More significantly, the noun ψάμμα is an Attic rarefied form; the standard Attic plural is ψάμμος, while the form ψάμμα (often appearing as ψάμματα in other contexts or dialects) here functions as a metrical variant or a specific Doric/Aeolicism adopted by Aristophanes to mock or exoticize the Persian identity. The phrase is a fragment of a larger line where the word order and morphology are manipulated for comedic effect, likely alluding to the Persian practice of counting sand (a metaphor for innumerable hosts), but the specific morphological choice of ψάμμα alongside the Doric articles creates a syntactic irregularity that challenges the reader to identify the intended dialectal register.