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446 BC–386 BC Greece
Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant, plus a thousand fragments of the others.
Greece Playwrights Poets Satirists Also known as: The Birds (Aristophanes)
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I intend to measure out the air for you—dividing it in surveyed lots.
How sweet a drink is wine, the milk of Aphrodite.
No honour to a young wife is an old husband.
To be afraid of death is idle folly,
Variant:You won't persuade [peiseis] me even if you convince [peisēs] me.
They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
Thought is as powerful as action.
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Pard, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Ye children of man! whose life is a span
These impossible women! How they do get around us!
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
Δῖνος βασιλεύει, τὸν Δί᾿ ἐξεληλακώς.
Clouds (-423)
Chorus [of Birds]: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.
Birds (-414)
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Knights (-424)
Old age is second childhood.
Clouds (-423)
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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