(AGATHON appears on the eccyclema, softly reposing on a bed, clothed in a saffron tunic, and surrou...
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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...
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...
What does it say? DEMOSTHENES It says here how he must end. NICIAS And how? DEMOSTHENES How? t...