Impossible, officer; good evening. SCYTHIAN Oh! oh! old woman, do me this pleasure. EURIPIDES Wi...
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EURIPIDES Don't worry; you look charming. Do you want to see yourself? MNESILOCHUS Yes, I do; han...
420 BC THE WASPS by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY PHILOCLEON BDELYC...
of them now, thanks to that line of his: "A woman is the tyrant of the old man who marries her." Ag...
What does it say? DEMOSTHENES It says here how he must end. NICIAS And how? DEMOSTHENES How? t...
alone? Dear Demos, do you see this stewed hare which I bring you? CLEON Ah! rascal! you have shame...
lawsuits. CLEON Eh! what! Knights, are you helping them? But, if I am beaten, it is in your cause...
a cock flapping his wings or a bull tossing his horns. DEMOS What, I? AGORACRITUS Then, after he...
By Posidon! You! would you beat me in impudence! If you succeed, may I no longer have my share of t...
counting his strength. Should one of them fall in the conflict he would shake off the dust, deny hi...
for he is full of craft and pulls himself out of the worst corners. Collect all your forces to come...
I will pluck out your white hairs and make you young again. SAUSAGE-SELLER Take this hare's tail t...
420 BC THE KNIGHTS by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY DEMOSTHENES NIC...
SAUSAGE-SELLER He says he will seize upon your bath-tubs. DEMOS Then I shall not bathe to-day. S...
By Cycnuses or Memnons clad in terrible array, With bells upon their horses' heads, the audience ...