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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 762 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 376 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 356 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 296 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 228 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 222 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Exordia (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 178 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 | 158 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 122 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley). You can also browse the collection for Athens (Greece) or search for Athens (Greece) in all documents.
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T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 6 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 2 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 1 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act prologue, scene 0 (search)
THE PROLOGUE.
PROLOGUSA VERY small portion of room does Plautus ask from out of your vast and pleasant city within the walls, whither, without builders, he may transport Athens. What then? Will you give it or not? They nod assent. I fancied, indeed, that I should obtain it of you without hesitation. What if I were to ask something of your private means? They shake their heads. Only see, i' faith, how the ancient habit still indwells among you, to keep your tongues ever ready for a denial. But let's to the point, on account of which I came hither. Let this be Athens, just as this is our stage, only for the while that we perform this Play. Here pointing to her house dwells a female whose name is Phronesium; she has in herself the manners of the present age; she never asks of her lover that which has been given; but what is left, she does her best that it mayn't be left, by begging for it and carrying it off, as is the habit of the women; for all of them do this when they discover that