The Comedies of Aristophanes, Volume 1Bell, 1874 - 386 pages |
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... husbands from their beds , until they con- clude a peace . In the mean time the elder women are commissioned to seize the Acropolis , and make themselves masters of the money which had been stowed therein for the purposes of war . Their ...
... husbands from their beds , until they con- clude a peace . In the mean time the elder women are commissioned to seize the Acropolis , and make themselves masters of the money which had been stowed therein for the purposes of war . Their ...
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... husband , another wakens the servant , another puts the child to bed , another washes hers , another feeds hers with morsels . Lys . But indeed there were other matters more important for them than these . CALON . What is the matter ...
... husband , another wakens the servant , another puts the child to bed , another washes hers , another feeds hers with morsels . Lys . But indeed there were other matters more important for them than these . CALON . What is the matter ...
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... husband has been absent , O unhappy man , five months in Thrace , guarding Eucrates.2 Lys . And mine has been absent ... husbands . Would you be willing , therefore , with me to put an end to the war , if I were to find a contrivance ...
... husband has been absent , O unhappy man , five months in Thrace , guarding Eucrates.2 Lys . And mine has been absent ... husbands . Would you be willing , therefore , with me to put an end to the war , if I were to find a contrivance ...
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... husband . Yet still we must do it , for there is great need of peace . LYS . O thou dearest , and the only woman out ... husbands leave us ? Lys . The saying of Pherecrates , 6 " to flay a skinned dog . ” CALON . These similes are idle ...
... husband . Yet still we must do it , for there is great need of peace . LYS . O thou dearest , and the only woman out ... husbands leave us ? Lys . The saying of Pherecrates , 6 " to flay a skinned dog . ” CALON . These similes are idle ...
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... husbands every where justly to keep peace without deceit . In what way , however , could any one , on the other hand , persuade the unstable crowd of the Athenians not to talk nonsense ? Lrs . We of course will persuade our party . LAMP ...
... husbands every where justly to keep peace without deceit . In what way , however , could any one , on the other hand , persuade the unstable crowd of the Athenians not to talk nonsense ? Lrs . We of course will persuade our party . LAMP ...
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