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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 464 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 290 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 244 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 174 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 134 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 64 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 62 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Aristophanes, Peace (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.). You can also browse the collection for Greece (Greece) or search for Greece (Greece) in all documents.
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The Chorus enters; it consists of laborers and farmers from various Greek states.
Leader of the ChorusCome hither all! quick, quick, hasten to the rescue! All peoples of Greece, now is the time or never, for you to help each other. You see yourselves freed from battles and all their horrors of bloodshed. The day hateful to Lamachus has come.
To Trygaeus.
Come then, what must be done? Give your orders, direct us, for I swear to work this day without ceasing, until with the help of our levers and our engines we have drawn back into light the greatest of all goddesses, her to whom the olive is so dear.
TrygaeusSilence! if War should hear your shouts of joy he would bound forth from his retreat in fury.
Leader of the ChorusSuch a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the edict, which bade us muster with provisions for three days.
TrygaeusLet us beware lest the cursed Cerberus prevent us even from the nethermost hell from delivering the goddess by his furious howling, just
First Servant
As for me, I will explain the matter to you all, children, youths, grown-ups and old men, aye, even to the decrepit dotards. My master is mad, not as you are, but with another sort of madness, quite a new kind. The livelong day he looks open-mouthed towards heaven and never stops addressing Zeus. “Ah! Zeus,” he cries, “what are thy intentions? Lay aside thy besom; do not sweep Greece away!” Ah! Hush, hush! I think I hear his voice!
Trygaeus
From within.
Oh! Zeus, what art thou going to do for our people? Dost thou not see this, that our cities will soon be but empty husks?
First Servant
As I told you, that is his form of madness. There you have a sample of his follies. When his trouble first began to seize him, he said to himself, “By what means could I go straight to Zeus?” Then he made himself very slender little ladders and so clambered up towards heaven; but he soon came hurtling down again and broke his head. Yesterday, to our misfortune, he went out and bro
Trygaeus
Have mercy, mercy, let yourself be touched by their words; never was your worship so dear to them as to-day. Aside.Really they are the greatest thieves that ever were. To Hermes.And I shall reveal to you a great and terrible plot that is being hatched against the gods.
Hermes
Hah! speak and perchance I shall let myself be softened.
Trygaeus
Know then, that the Moon and that infamous Sun are plotting against you, and want to deliver Greece into the hands of the barbarians.
Hermes
What for?
Trygaeus
Because it is to you that we sacrifice, whereas the barbarians worship them; hence they would like to see you destroyed, that they alone might receive the offerings.
Hermes
Is it then for this reason that these untrustworthy charioteers have for so long been defrauding us, one of them robbing us of daylight and the other nibbling away at the other's disk?
Trygaeus
Yes, certainly. So therefore, Hermes, my friend, help us with your whole heart to find and deliver the captive an
They begin to lift the stones.
Trygaeus
Quick, reach me your cup, and let us preface our work by addressing prayers to the gods.
Hermes
Libation! Libation! Silence! Silence!
TrygaeusLet us offer our libations and our prayers, so that this day may begin an era of unalloyed happiness for Greece and that he who has bravely pulled at the rope with us may never resume his buckler.
Chorus
Aye, may we pass our lives in peace, caressing our mistresses and poking the fire.
Trygaeus
May he who would prefer the war—
Chorus
Be ever drawing barbed arrows out of his elbows, O Lord Dionysus.
Trygaeus
If there be a citizen, greedy for military rank and honors, who refuses, oh, divine Peace! to restore you to daylight—
Chorus
May he behave as cowardly as Cleonymus on the battlefield.
Trygaeus
If a lance-maker or a dealer in shields desires war for the sake of better trade—
Chorus
May he be taken by pirates and eat nothing but barely.
Trygaeus
If some ambitious man does not help us, because<