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Browsing named entities in Aristophanes, Peace (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.).
Found 84 total hits in 26 results.
Greece (Greece) (search for this): card 301
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
Thrace (Greece) (search for this): card 250
Sicily (Italy) (search for this): card 250
War
throwing in some cheese.
Oh, Sicily! you too must perish! Your wretched towns shall be grated like this cheese. Now let us pour some Attic honey into the mortar.
He does so.
Trygaeus
Aside.
Oh! I beseech you! use some other honey; this kind is worth four obols; be careful, oh! be careful of our Attic honey.
War
Hi! Tumult, you slave there!
Tumult
What do you want?
War
Out upon you! Standing there with folded arms! Take this cuff on the head for your pains.
Tumult
Oh! how it stings! Master, have you got garlic in your fist, I wonder?
War
Run and fetch me a pestle.
Tumult
Butwe haven't got one; it was only yesterday we moved.
War
Go and fetch me one from Athens, and hurry, hurry!
Tumult
I'll hurry; if I return without one, I shall have no cause for laughing.He runs off.
Trygaeus
To the audience.
Ah! what is to become of us, wretched mortals that we are? See the danger that threatens if he returns with the pestle, for War will quietly amuse himself with pounding all the to
Athens (Greece) (search for this): card 250
Sparta (Greece) (search for this): card 250
Greece (Greece) (search for this): card 250
Megara (Greece) (search for this): card 200
Pylos (Greece) (search for this): card 200
Greece (Greece) (search for this): card 200
Piraeus (Greece) (search for this): card 154
Trygaeus
Intoning.Now come, my Pegasus, get a-going with up-pricked ears and make your golden bridle resound gaily. Eh! what are you doing? What are you up to? Do you turn your nose towards the cesspools? Come, pluck up a spirit; rush upwards from the earth, stretch out your speedy wings and make straight for the palace of Zeus; for once give up foraging in your daily food. —Hi! you down there, what are you after now? Oh! my god! it's a man taking a crap in the Piraeus, close to the whorehouses. But is it my death you seek then, my death? Will you not bury that right away and pile a great heap of earth upon it and plant wild thyme therein and pour perfumes on it? If I were to fall from up here and misfortune happened to me, the town of Chios would owe a fine of five talents for my death, all because of your damned ars