The Acharnians, Knights, Wasps and Birds of Aristophanes, Tr. by a Graduate of the University of Oxford [J.W. Warter.]. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...twigs, if by any means he can be forced to row7 astern, struck by the sacred8 branches wrapped round with wool. Phil.--Will you not lend an assisting hand, as many as this year are about to have suits, i Smicythion, and Tisiades, and Chremon, and Pheredipnus? When, indeed, if not now, will you come to my aid, ere that I be drawn within more? i Vide Brunck ad Eccles. v. 1105. 2 Vide infra, vv. 552, 830. 3 Vide Potter, vol. i. p. 133. Similar to this were the statues of Janus in the Roman forum. Vide Hor. Sat. ii. iii. 19: " Postquam omnis res mea Jiiviim Ad medium fracta est." Again, Epist. i. i. 54: " Haec Janus summiis ah imo Perdocet." 4 " Cujus ad effigiem non tantum mejere fas est." Juv. Sat. 5 Porson's reading is a very pretty one--pSiv b yipiav Ttij SiaSv IaQiv; Owing to the dactyl preceding the anapaest, Porson reads iJ piap' av For oii lifi Ka.raiiau, vide Elmsl. ad Med. v. 1120-4. Vide Potter, vol. ii. p. 153. s Vide Potter, vol. ii. p. 67. Chor.--Tell me, why tarry we in2 stirring up that wrath which (we are wont) when any one irritates our wasps' nest? Now that irritable, now that sharp sting is on the stretch, with which we denounce punishment. Come, my lads, having laid down your garments as quick as possible, run, and shout aloud, and tell this to Cleon, and bid him come, as it were against a man who is a city-hater, and a proper scamp, because he brings in such a proposal as this: " That it is not right to give decision as dicasts in suits." Bdel.--My good Sirs, hear the matter as it stands: come, do not shout aloud. Chor.--By Jove, but we will, aye, and sky-high too; since I will not let go this man. Bdel.--Are not such expressions as these intolerable, and is not this a clear tyranny? Chor.--O ci...