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... Euripides , in his Iphigenia in Tauris , is here ridiculed . 66. The allowance to an Athenian embassy con- sisted of two drachmæ 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 con- sisted of two drachmæ 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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... Euripides and Cephisophon ridiculed . - The Eneus , Phoenix , Philoctetes , Bellerophon , Telephus , Thyestes , and Ino of Euripides , are laughed at , where he had introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move compassion ...
... Euripides and Cephisophon ridiculed . - The Eneus , Phoenix , Philoctetes , Bellerophon , Telephus , Thyestes , and Ino of Euripides , are laughed at , where he had introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move compassion ...
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... Euripides . 61 . Adei de xpnoμovs . 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 Sphac- teria , had a ...
... Euripides . 61 . Adei de xpnoμovs . 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 Sphac- teria , had a ...
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... 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 sub- ject 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
... 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 sub- ject 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
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... This is undoubtedly a parody of some tragick chorus , perhaps of Eschylus or of Euripides , though the Scholiast is silent . 388. N Avke , & c . The fane of Lycus adjoining to all courts of justice , fenced in , and covered VESPÆ RANE 49.
... This is undoubtedly a parody of some tragick chorus , perhaps of Eschylus or of Euripides , though the Scholiast is silent . 388. N Avke , & c . The fane of Lycus adjoining to all courts of justice , fenced in , and covered VESPÆ RANE 49.
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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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