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Strepsiades: ‘Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.
(tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 350) | Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.
(tr. in Lippmann 1929, p. 1 and 4) | Clouds, line 828
More quotes by Aristophanes
I intend to measure out the air for you—dividing it in surveyed lots.
To be afraid of death is idle folly,
For 'tis a debt that all of us must pay.
Variant:You won't persuade [peiseis] me even if you convince [peisēs] me.
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