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Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.), line 153 (search)
Mnesilochus
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Then you make love horse-fashion when you are composing a Phaedra.
Agathon
If the heroes are men, everything in him will be manly. What we don't possess by nature, we must acquire by imitation.
Mnesilochus
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When you are staging Satyrs, call me; I will do my best to help you from behind, if I can get my tool up.
Agathon
Besides, it is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy. Look at the famous Ibycus, at Anacreon of Teos, and at Alcaeus, who handled music so well; they wore head-bands and found pleasure in the lascivious and dances of Ionia. And have you not heard what a dandy Phrynichus was and how careful in his dress? For this reason his pieces were also beautiful, for the works of a poet are copied from himself.
Mnesilochus
Ah! so it is for this reason that Philocles, who is so hideous, writes hideous pieces; Xenocles, who is malicious, malicious ones, and Theognis, who is cold, such cold ones?
Agathon
Yes, necessarily and unavoidably; and it is bec