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Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous), line 1 (search)
ntless as the grains of sand on the shore! Let me see! of what value to me have been these few pleasures? Ah! I remember that I was delighted in soul when Cleon had to disgorge those five talents;Cleon had received five talents from the islanders subject to Athens, on condition that he should get the tribute payable by them reduced; when informed of this transaction, the knights compelled him to return the money. I was in ecstasy and I love the Knights for this deed; it is an honour to Greece.A hemistich borrowed from Euripides' Telephus. But the day when I was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus,The tragedies of Aeschylus continued to be played even after the poet's death, which occurred in 436 B.C., ten years before the production of The Acharnians. what tragic despair it caused me when the herald called, Theognis,A tragic poet, whose pieces were so devoid of warmth and life that he was nicknamed [the Greek for] snow. introduce your Chorus! Just imagine how this blow stru
Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous), line 496 (search)
as not serious and we were the only sufferers. But now some young drunkards go to Megara and carry off the courtesan Simaetha; the Megarians, hurt to the quick, run off in turn with two harlots of the house of Aspasia; and so for three gay women Greece is set ablaze. Then Pericles, aflame with ire on his Olympian height, let loose the lightning, caused the thunder to roll, upset Greece and passed an edict, which ran like the song, That the Megarians be banished both from our land and from our Greece and passed an edict, which ran like the song, That the Megarians be banished both from our land and from our markets and from the sea and from the continent.A song by Timocreon the Rhodian, the words of which were practically identical with Pericles' decree. Meanwhile the Megarians, who were beginning to die of hunger, begged the Lacedaemonians to bring about the abolition of the decree, of which those harlots were the cause; several times we refused their demand; and from that time there was horrible clatter of arms everywhere.