[458] A demagogue; because he deceived the people,
Aristophanes
compares
him with the washermen who cheated their clients by using some mixture
that was cheaper than potash.
him with the washermen who cheated their clients by using some mixture
that was cheaper than potash.
Aristophanes
oh!
" in honour of the god.
[450] He pretends it was not a cry of pain at all, but of astonishment
and admiration.
[451] Pretending that it was the thorn causing him pain, and not the lash
of the whip.
[452] According to the Scholiast this is a quotation from the 'Laocoon,'
a lost play of Sophocles.
[453] A general known for his cowardice; he was accused of not being a
citizen, but of Thracian origin; in 406 B. C. he was in disfavour, and he
perished shortly after in a popular tumult.
[454] According to Athenian law, the accused was acquitted when the
voting was equal.
[455] He had helped to establish the oligarchical government of the Four
Hundred, who had just been overthrown.
[456] The fight of Arginusae; the slaves who had fought there had been
accorded their freedom. --The Plataeans had had the title of citizens
since the battle of Marathon.
[457] Things were not going well for Athens at the time; it was only two
years later, 404 B. C. , that Lysander took the city.
[458] A demagogue; because he deceived the people, Aristophanes compares
him with the washermen who cheated their clients by using some mixture
that was cheaper than potash.
[459] Callistrates says that Clidemides was one of Sophocles' sons;
Apollonius states him to have been an actor.
[460] Dionysus was, of course, the patron god of the drama and dramatic
contests.
[461] The majestic grandeur of Aeschylus' periods, coupled with a touch
of parody, is to be recognized in this piece.
[462] It is said that Euripides was the son of a fruit-seller.
[463] Euripides is constantly twitted by Aristophanes with his
predilection for ragged beggars and vagabonds as characters in his plays.
[464] Bellerophon, Philoctetes, and Telephus, were all characters in
different Tragedies of Euripides.
[465] Sailors, when in danger, sacrificed a black lamb to Typhon, the god
of storms.
[466] An allusion to a long monologue of Icarus in the tragedy called
'The Cretans. '
[467] In 'Aeolus,' Macareus violates his own sister; in 'The Clouds,'
this incest, which Euripides introduced upon the stage, is also
mentioned.
[468] The title of one of Euripides' pieces.
[469] The titles of three lost Tragedies of Euripides.
[470] A verse from one of the lost Tragedies of Euripides; the poet was
born at Eleusis.
[471] Aristophanes often makes this accusation of religious heterodoxy
against Euripides.
[472] A dramatic poet, who lived about the end of the sixth century B. C.
[450] He pretends it was not a cry of pain at all, but of astonishment
and admiration.
[451] Pretending that it was the thorn causing him pain, and not the lash
of the whip.
[452] According to the Scholiast this is a quotation from the 'Laocoon,'
a lost play of Sophocles.
[453] A general known for his cowardice; he was accused of not being a
citizen, but of Thracian origin; in 406 B. C. he was in disfavour, and he
perished shortly after in a popular tumult.
[454] According to Athenian law, the accused was acquitted when the
voting was equal.
[455] He had helped to establish the oligarchical government of the Four
Hundred, who had just been overthrown.
[456] The fight of Arginusae; the slaves who had fought there had been
accorded their freedom. --The Plataeans had had the title of citizens
since the battle of Marathon.
[457] Things were not going well for Athens at the time; it was only two
years later, 404 B. C. , that Lysander took the city.
[458] A demagogue; because he deceived the people, Aristophanes compares
him with the washermen who cheated their clients by using some mixture
that was cheaper than potash.
[459] Callistrates says that Clidemides was one of Sophocles' sons;
Apollonius states him to have been an actor.
[460] Dionysus was, of course, the patron god of the drama and dramatic
contests.
[461] The majestic grandeur of Aeschylus' periods, coupled with a touch
of parody, is to be recognized in this piece.
[462] It is said that Euripides was the son of a fruit-seller.
[463] Euripides is constantly twitted by Aristophanes with his
predilection for ragged beggars and vagabonds as characters in his plays.
[464] Bellerophon, Philoctetes, and Telephus, were all characters in
different Tragedies of Euripides.
[465] Sailors, when in danger, sacrificed a black lamb to Typhon, the god
of storms.
[466] An allusion to a long monologue of Icarus in the tragedy called
'The Cretans. '
[467] In 'Aeolus,' Macareus violates his own sister; in 'The Clouds,'
this incest, which Euripides introduced upon the stage, is also
mentioned.
[468] The title of one of Euripides' pieces.
[469] The titles of three lost Tragedies of Euripides.
[470] A verse from one of the lost Tragedies of Euripides; the poet was
born at Eleusis.
[471] Aristophanes often makes this accusation of religious heterodoxy
against Euripides.
[472] A dramatic poet, who lived about the end of the sixth century B. C.
