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Euripides , in his Iphigenia in Tauris , is here ridiculed . 66. The allowance to an Athenian embassy consisted of two drachma a day to each person employed . 119. The Medea of Euripides is here parodied . I 1 It was not any oligarchy ...
Euripides , in his Iphigenia in Tauris , is here ridiculed . 66. The allowance to an Athenian embassy consisted of two drachma a day to each person employed . 119. The Medea of Euripides is here parodied . I 1 It was not any oligarchy ...
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read , uprueve , which improves the parody of Euripides . - Effeminate persons began to shave their chins even in these times . ( V. Atheneum , L. 13. p . 565 . and Thesmoph . v . 225. ) 233. The action against Pisistratus at Pallene ...
read , uprueve , which improves the parody of Euripides . - Effeminate persons began to shave their chins even in these times . ( V. Atheneum , L. 13. p . 565 . and Thesmoph . v . 225. ) 233. The action against Pisistratus at Pallene ...
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Alludes to Euripides . 61 . Adel de xpnouovs . Alluding to the Sibyll's oracles . 123. Alluding to the oracles of Bacis . The Scholiast says there were three of that name . 282. It seems , that Cleon , for his success at Sphacteria ...
Alludes to Euripides . 61 . Adel de xpnouovs . Alluding to the Sibyll's oracles . 123. Alluding to the oracles of Bacis . The Scholiast says there were three of that name . 282. It seems , that Cleon , for his success at Sphacteria ...
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The sharpness of this parody of Euripides consists in this : Cleon , under a pretence of an embassy to Argos , was suspected of carrying on a > private correspondence with the Spartans , on the subject of 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
The sharpness of this parody of Euripides consists in this : Cleon , under a pretence of an embassy to Argos , was suspected of carrying on a > private correspondence with the Spartans , on the subject of 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
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This is undoubtedly a parody of some tragick chorus , perhaps of Æschylus or of Euripides , though the Scholiast is silent . 388. 2 Avke , & c . The fane of Lycus adjoining to all courts of justice , fenced in , and covered RANA.
This is undoubtedly a parody of some tragick chorus , perhaps of Æschylus or of Euripides , though the Scholiast is silent . 388. 2 Avke , & c . The fane of Lycus adjoining to all courts of justice , fenced in , and covered RANA.
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| Title | Notes on Aristophanes and Plato Volume 4 of The Works of Thomas Gray: In Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse Volume 4 of Works in Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | Edmund Gosse |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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