The Acharnians of Aristophanes

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Hodges, Figgis, 1883 - 70 หน้า
 

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หน้า 1 - ARISTOTLE.— THE WORKS OF. THE POLITICS, G. Bekker's Greek Text of Books I. III. IV. (VII.) with an English Translation by WE BOLLAND, MA ; and short Introductory Essays by A.
หน้า 12 - Amphitheus ; the rest of the play, with all its wild and fanciful circumstances, being, in fact, nothing more than a whimsical exemplification of the first supposition ; namely, that a private citizen had succeeded in concluding and maintaining a separate peace. With respect to the play of the Knights (or Demagogues), the very conversation out of which it originated is to be traced in the passage from line 125 to 144 of the original. The conversation turned upon "the degradation of the democracy...
หน้า 11 - ... and your leading people here in Athens, choose to waste the public treasure in embassies and expeditions, that is their own affair ; but I do not see what right they have to bring down a Peloponnesian army to drive me out of my farm — there's no quarrel that we country-people ever had with them to my knowledge — we should all be glad enough to let-alone for let-alone — for my part, if these enemies of ours (as they call them) would allow me to live on my farm, and buy and sell as I used...
หน้า 11 - Acharnae and the Knights (or Demagogues), are capable of being traced to the kind of conversation, out of which, in all probability, they did originate. There are other plays, which appear to have grown up from mere sport, when, in a playful conversation, fancied events are developed into an imaginary detail. If we were possessed of the Boswells of antiquity, who are cited by Athenaeus, we might, perhaps, find some notices which would illustrate the...
หน้า 12 - em into the bargain — and I'd go there to-morrow ; — but as for our statesmen, I'm persuaded if a Deity were to come down from heaven on purpose to propose a Peace to them, they would never listen to him.

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