Ἀριστοφανους Ὀρνιθες. The Birds of Aristophanes. From the text of Dindorf. With notes ... by Henry Parker Cookesley, etcB. Fellowes, 1834 - 165 pages |
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Page 42 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 50 - Epigram is to be corrected ; for it is faulty in Tzetzes. Indeed, it is not expressed here what sort of victories they were ; so that possibly there might be some of them obtained by his Tragedies, if that be true which Suidas tells us, that Simonides made Tragedies. But I rather believe that he won them all by his Dithyrambs with the Cyclian Choruses...
Page 77 - A»e?«;, ie the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began, and lasted till the seventeenth. Upon the sixteenth they kept a fast, sitting upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called Nun/*, ie a fast.
Page 56 - BIRDS. themselves had a like connexion with each other; and there were public irpо£е>чн nominated to receive and to defray the expenses of such as came on business from other cities in alliance with them.
Page 17 - ... vieux ) , légèrement arqué ; la pointe du bec supérieur dépasse un peu celle du bec inférieur ; l'une et l'autre sont assez mousses; narines oblongues et peu recouvertes; langue trèscourte , presque perdue dans le gosier , et formant une espèce de triangle équilatéral, dont les côtés n'ont pas trois lignes de...
Page 79 - Socrates's trial ; for he is mentioned in Socrates's Apology, as then dead, and in the Gorgias, as then living : his death must therefore have happened between Ol. 93. 4. and Ol. 95. 1. He consulted the Delphian oracle to know if any man were wiser than Socrates. His brother, Chserecrates, survived him.* EPIGENES.
Page 21 - The adjective, as a predicate (not as an epithet) of things and persons, often stands in the neuter sing., although the subject is mase.
Page 40 - God, foI£'¡7o5'ei as being themselves also gods, — but also brute animals at least, if not men too. And this is the Atheistic creation of the world, gods and all, out of senseless and stupid matter, or dark chaos, as the only original Numen; the perfectly inverted order of the universe.
Page 32 - The word i (page 470) does not mean the audience, but the judges, the critical over-seers, who were to decide upon the merits of the respective performances, previously to their being selected for the prize of public exhibition. The translator, on any future occasion, will do well also to be aware of a familiar practice of Aristophanes; viz. that of making his names of places carry a double meaning with them. Thus (p. 498) the words Phanae and Clepsydra are not only the names of towns, but have a...
Page 70 - ... his poverty, his deformities, and his distempers, were not only produced on the stage, but frequently alluded to by the orators, and exposed to the scorn of the multitude.