What is there then? STREPSIADES The Whirlwind has driven out Zeus and is King now. PHIDIPPIDES W...
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Persian slippers. But where shall I find a place where I can take a crap? Bah! One place is as good...
CHORUS (singing) Here are two rivals confident in their powers of oratory and in the thoughts over...
heat nor of wet. But if a mortal dares to insult the goddesses of the Clouds, let him think of the ...
AMYNIAS Do you want to know who I am? I am a man of misfortune! STREPSIADES Get on your way then....
will tell me, that according to the law, it is the lot of children to be beaten. But I reply that t...
that this wretched Hyperbolus has given them the cue, have never ceased setting upon both him and h...
HERACLES Mortal! we who greet you are three gods. PITHETAERUS Wait a bit till I have prepared my ...
flame, that Zeus has hitherto shot forth! Oh, ye rolling thunders, that bring down the rain! 'Tis b...
420 BC THE CLOUDS by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY STREPSIADES PHID...
Look at the book. PITHETAERUS This oracle in no sort of way resembles the one Apollo dictated to ...
Very well then, but reflect, that these are mysteries. Lately, a flea bit Chaerephon on the brow an...
PITHETAERUS Birds! the sacrifice is propitious. But I see no messenger coming from the wall to tel...
STREPSIADES By Zeus! That's no lie! Soon I shall be nothing but wheat-flour, if you powder me in t...
Ha!... but just you be off elsewhere to roast younger folk than us with your lightning. CHORUS (si...