He knocked again, harder than before, for behind him he heard the steps and the labored breathing o...
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"It is too bitter, much too bitter! I can't drink it." "How do you know, when you haven't even tast...
EURIPIDES That's enough. MNESILOCHUS Go and hang yourself! EURIPIDES Go and hang yourself! MNE...
(AGATHON appears on the eccyclema, softly reposing on a bed, clothed in a saffron tunic, and surrou...
Impossible, officer; good evening. SCYTHIAN Oh! oh! old woman, do me this pleasure. EURIPIDES Wi...
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...
Wherever am I to stow myself? CLISTHENES Each and every one must pass the scrutiny. MNESILOCHUS (...
FIRST WOMAN Oh! what have you done? You have stripped the poor child quite naked, and it is so sma...
shall I betray the faith I owe my husband, Menelaus, who is fighting before Troy." EURIPIDES "Wha...
410 BC THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY EURIPI...
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...