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I 1 It was not any oligarchy , or tyranny , which retrenched the chorus in the Athenian comedy , or prohibited the representa- tion of real characters , as Platonius asserts , in his observations entitled Περι διαφορᾶς κωμωδιών .
I 1 It was not any oligarchy , or tyranny , which retrenched the chorus in the Athenian comedy , or prohibited the representa- tion of real characters , as Platonius asserts , in his observations entitled Περι διαφορᾶς κωμωδιών .
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This is not at all agree- able to the youth : however in consideration of his affec- tion for the Nephelococcygians , Pisthetærus furnishes him with feather for his helmet , and a cock's spur for a weapon , and advises him , as he seems ...
This is not at all agree- able to the youth : however in consideration of his affec- tion for the Nephelococcygians , Pisthetærus furnishes him with feather for his helmet , and a cock's spur for a weapon , and advises him , as he seems ...
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These words are not in the drama , but are a Παρεπιγραφη , a direction written on the side to signify , that an air is played on the flute , in imita- tion of the nightingale . 276. The second Tyro of Sophocles .
These words are not in the drama , but are a Παρεπιγραφη , a direction written on the side to signify , that an air is played on the flute , in imita- tion of the nightingale . 276. The second Tyro of Sophocles .
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... when it was first acted , he is in the right , and confirms the emendation of Athenæus ; but if ( see v . 303 ) it were only in the second Plutus , Lais was then thirty - three years old , and might be still in admira- tion .
... when it was first acted , he is in the right , and confirms the emendation of Athenæus ; but if ( see v . 303 ) it were only in the second Plutus , Lais was then thirty - three years old , and might be still in admira- tion .
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See also another analysis by Mr. Hardion in his tenth Disserta- tion on the eloquence of Greece . Ib . V. 16 , p . 378 , des Mémoires . NOTES . P. 227. Tov OλvμTIOν . ] The vast temple of Jupiter , begun by Pisistratus , but never ...
See also another analysis by Mr. Hardion in his tenth Disserta- tion on the eloquence of Greece . Ib . V. 16 , p . 378 , des Mémoires . NOTES . P. 227. Tov OλvμTIOν . ] The vast temple of Jupiter , begun by Pisistratus , but never ...
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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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