lawsuits. CLEON Eh! what! Knights, are you helping them? But, if I am beaten, it is in your cause...
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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...
By Cycnuses or Memnons clad in terrible array, With bells upon their horses' heads, the audience ...
are statelier, grander robes than ours. Such was my plan: but when you began, you spoilt and degra...
At Archedemus poke, Who has not cut his guildsmen yet, though seven years old; Yet up among the de...
DIONYSUS Aye, but he's speaking to the dead, you knave, Who cannot hear us though we call them thr...
Turning him round like a lazy lout, Straight on my mouth deliver a facer, Knocking my ivory choirm...
Unwilling in the Muses' holy field The self-same flowers as Phrynichus to cull. But he from all th...
A holy man! 'Tis now the other's turn. DIONYSUS Hi! Hi! AEACUS Hallo! DIONYSUS Look at those h...
Say what he thinks; the city travails sore. DIONYSUS What does she think herself about him? She l...