 | Aristophanes - 1834 - 192 pages
...that of Agesilaus. 964. el firj erеpiSие avKo<j>avTÍjаеч 1wv, Acharn. 828. ACT II. SCENE V. Meto, the famous geometrician, comes next, and offers...: he meets with as bad a reception as the prophet. 966. Before %pаab»> supply {¡¿eis. Bentley and Elmsley (on Acharn. 105.) read TÍ Sai. lSeai. e.... | |
 | Aristophanes - Birds - 1872 - 276 pages
...has drawn for the new buildings, with л- , . much importance and impertinence : he meets with as had a reception as the prophet. "An ambassador, or licensed...Athens arrives, and a legislator, with a body of new law?. They are used with abundance of indignity, and go off, threatening everybody with a prosecution.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English language - 1884 - 422 pages
...want. Pisthetserus loses patience, and cuffs him and his religious trumpery off the stage. Scene 5. Meto, the famous geometrician, comes next and offers...: he meets with as bad a reception as the prophet. Act 2. Scene 6 and 7. An ambassador, or licensed spy from Athens, arrives, and a legislator with a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 428 pages
...want. Pisthetserus loses patience, and cuffs him and his religious trumpery off the stage. Scene 5. Meto, the famous geometrician, comes next and offers...: he meets with as bad a reception as the prophet. Act 2. Scene 6 and 7. An ambassador, or licensed spy from Athens, arrives, and a legislator with a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 428 pages
...him and tis religious trumpery off the stage. Scene 5. Meto, the famous geometrician, comes next anjl offers a plan, which he has drawn, for the new buildings,...: he meets with as bad a reception as the prophet. Act 2. Scene 6 and 7. An ambassador, or licensed spy from Athens, arrives, and a legislator with a... | |
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... again interrupted by a begging prophet, who brings a cargo of oracles, partly relating to the prosperity of the city of Nephelococcygia, and partly to a new pair of shoes, of which he is in extreme want. Pisthetserus loses patience, and cuffs him... 