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" It is generally supposed that we owe these remains of Aristophanes to St. Chrysostom, who happily rescued this valuable, though small portion of his favourite author from his more scrupulous Christian contemporaries, whose zeal was fatally too successful... "
The comedies of Aristophanes, tr. into familiar blank verse, with notes, by ... - Page vi
by Aristophanes - 1837
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...partiality of Chrysostom alone we owe the preservation of Aristophanes" whom he fortunately rescued " from his more scrupulous Christian contemporaries,...author, out of a very numerous collection, of which no one entire scene now remains." t It is supposed that near two thousand Greek plays, the labours of...
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The British Essayists;: Observer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 332 pages
...remaining, and the last, to which he prefixed his own name, was produced in the fourth year of Olymp. xcvn. It is generally supposed that we owe these remains...author, out of a very numerous collection, of which no one entire scene now remains. NUMBER CXLI. I SHALL now proceed to mention some other principal writers...
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The British Essayists, Volume 40

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 534 pages
...remaining, and the last, to which he prefixed his own name, was produced in the fourth year of Olymp. XCVIT. It is generally supposed that we owe these remains...was fatally too successful in destroying every other comic'author, out of a very numerous collection, of which BO one entire scene now remains. • •...
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The British Essayists, Volume 40

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 534 pages
...remaining, and the last, to which he prefixed his own name, was produced in the fourth year of Olymp. XCVIT. It is generally supposed that we owe these remains...his more scrupulous Christian contemporaries, whose zeal'was fatally too successful in destroying every other comic" author, out of a very numerous collection,...
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Archaeologia Graeca, Or the Antiquities of Greece, Volume 1

John Potter - 1818 - 626 pages
...the Lysistrata, the Birds, the Thesmophoriagusse, the Concionatrices, the Frogs, and the Plutus. — It is generally supposed that we owe these remains of Aristophanes to St. Chrysostom, of whom he was the favourite author. OF PASTORAL POETRY. THEOCRITUS, has the merit of being the first...
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Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece, Volume 2

John Potter - Greece - 1818 - 616 pages
...Lysistrata, the Birds, the Thesmopboriagusae, the Concionatrices, the Frogs, and the Plutus.— ft is generally supposed that we owe these remains of Aristophanes to St. Chrysostom, of whom he was the favourite author. OF PASTORAL POETRY. THEOCRITUS, has the merit of being the first...
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Archaeologia Graeca, or The antiquities of Greece. To which is ..., Volume 2

John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 618 pages
...the Lysistrata, the Birds, the Thesmophoriagusae, the Concionatrices, the Frogs, and the Plutus. — It is generally supposed that we owe these remains of Aristophanes to St. Chrjsostom, of whom he was the favourite author. OF PASTORAL POETRY. THEOCRITUS, has the merit of being...
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The British Essayists: Observer

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 374 pages
...Olymp. xcvii. Tlie Frogs were performed in the last year of Olymp. xciii, after the death of Euripides. It is generally supposed that we owe these remains...author, out of a very numerous collection, of which no one entire scene now remains. No. CXLI. I SHALL now proceed to mention some other principal writers...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34

British essayists - 1823 - 754 pages
...remaining, and the last to which he prefixed his own name, was produced in the fourth year of Olymp. xcvii. It is generally supposed that we owe these remains...author, out of a very numerous collection, of which no one entire scene now remains. NUMBER CXLI. 1 SHALL now proceed to mention some other principal writers...
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A Hand-book of the Greek Drama

Edward Walford - Greek drama - 1856 - 326 pages
...Aristophanes brought it out in the name of Callistratus the comedian. It is generally supposed that we owe the remains of Aristophanes to St. Chrysostom, who happily...scrupulous Christian contemporaries, whose zeal was too fatally successful in destroying every other comic author, out of a very numerous collection, of...
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