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  • INTRODUCTION
  • DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Parodos 2
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Lyric-scene 3
  • Parabasis 1
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  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Acharnians

    DICAEOPOLIS

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Jeffrey Henderson) | English
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    You will say that Sparta was wrong, but what should she have done? Answer that. Suppose that a Lacedaemonian had seized a little Seriphian1 dog on any pretext and had sold it, would you have endured it quietly? Far from it, you would at once have sent three hundred vessels to sea, and what an uproar there would have been through all the city! there 'tis a band of noisy soldiery, here a brawl about the election of a Trierarch; elsewhere pay is being distributed, the Pallas figure-heads are being regilded, crowds are surging under the market porticos, encumbered with wheat that is being measured, wine-skins, oar-leathers, garlic, olives, onions in nets; everywhere are chaplets, sprats, flute-girls, black eyes; in the arsenal bolts are being noisily driven home, sweeps are being made and fitted with leathers; we hear nothing but the sound of whistles, of flutes and fifes to encourage the work-folk. That is what you assuredly would have done, and would not Telephus have done the same? So I come to my general conclusion; we have no common sense.

    1 A small and insignificant island, one of the Cyclades, allied with the Athenians, like months of these islands previous to and during the first part of the Peloponnesian War.

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