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1374 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   Aristophanes ridicules him also for the attempt to cloak his cowardice under a gasconading demeanour ; and he gave further occasion for satire to Aristophanes, Eupolis, Hermippus, and Plato, by his gluttony and his unwieldy bulk, the latter of which procured for him the nicknames of (39.57)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter A
   , which is sometimes attributed to Aristophanes, the names of Aristomenes and Aristophanes being often confounded in the MSS. 2. (24.16)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter C
   The frequent notices of him in Aristophanes shew that he was highly distinguished in the school of Socrates; while from the nicknames, such as (19.79)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background
   Aristophanes, with his myth that men, once four-legged and four-armed, were split in two because they were too happy, and now are pining to find their counterparts, gives the exact description of what the love of Antony and Cleopatra is. (2.75)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 4, scene 5, commline 215
   The faulty utterance of the one dictating or the reader could, with an intentionally corrupt word, easily lead to yet greater corruption, as in Aristophanes, where a dialect is being spoken. (2.61)

3. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background
   Plutarch narrates-and it is strange that à propos of this he did not quote Aristophanes' saying in the Symposium-- (2.12)

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2 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 4, scene 5, commline 215
   The faulty utterance of the one dictating or the reader could, with an intentionally corrupt word, easily lead to yet greater corruption, as in Aristophanes, where a dialect is being spoken. (2.55)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 2, commline 68
   Hippolytus, for which Aristophanes so severely blamed Euripides as for a maxim of more than doubtful morality, ‘My mouth has sworn, but not my heart,’ [l. 612. (2.07)

15 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter T, entry 30252
   editor of Shakespeare; became an attorney, but soon abandoned the law for literature; published an ode on the union, 1707, and translations of Plato, AEschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Homer, poems, essays, biographies, and dramatic works; accused of scandalous plagiarism in respect of his ‘Perfidious Brother,’ 1715; published ‘Shakespeare restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well committed as unamended by Mr. Pope in his late Edition of this Poet,’ 1726, exposing Pope's incapacity as a critic; made the hero of the ‘Dunciad,’ and ridiculed in the ‘Miscellanies,’ 1727-8, at the same time that his best corrections were incorporated in Pope's second edition of Shakespeare; defended himself in ‘The Author,’ 1729; produced the ‘Double Falsehood,’ a tragedy, 1727, as a work of Shakespeare's, though probably from his own pen; edited the posthumous works of Wycherley, and contributed notes to Cook's ‘Hesiod,’ 1728; failed in his candidature for the poet laureateship, 1730; contributed valuable emendations on AEschylus, Athenæus, and other Greek writers, to ‘Miscellaneous Observations on Authors, Ancient and Modern,’ by Zachary Pearce [q. v.], 1731; published an edition of Shakespeare, 1734, which raised him to the front rank of Shakespearean commentators; pursued by poverty; wrote various tragedies and operas, and was engaged on an edition of Beaumont and Fletcher at the time of his death. [lvi. (5.99)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter M, entry 20803
   classical scholar; of Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College, Cambridge; M.A., 1809; fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1809-12; translated plays of Aristophanes into English verse, 1820-2; edited plays of Aristophanes, 1834-8, and Sophocles. [xxxviii. (5.95)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 5310
   translator; of Irish extraction; born at Gibraltar; educated at Birmingham; wrote verses, from 1787, chiefly for the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’; entered Christ Church, Oxford, 1790; M.A., 1796; vicar of Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire, 1796, and of Kingsbury, Warwickshire, 1800; published his translation of Dante's ‘Inferno,’ 1805, and of the ‘Purgatorio’ and ‘Paradiso,’ 1812; became a non-resident parson, 1807; resided in London, taking clerical work and writing for the magazines; translated the ‘Birds’ of Aristophanes, 1824; an official of the Britisir Museum Library, 1826-37; translated Pindar, 1832; travelled, 1833-5; pensioned, 1841. [ix. (3.30)

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4 from American Memory: California

1. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   ARISTOPHANES. (5.55)

2. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 672
   So pleased were the Athenian critics at this singular production of their old favorite, that they awarded him the prize, though Aristophanes had brought forward in competition The Clouds which he regarded as one of his best plays. (2.42)

3. The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher page 70
   America must have time--time to filter and deodorise this turbid stream of life flowing constantly in on her; time to educate, if possible, her immigrants up to that great freedom to which they were not born; and meanwhile she must be patient, hopeful, and--like Aristophanes' groom of the muck-beetle--desirous of "an unperforated nose. (2.35)

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3 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 56
   In Greek we are reading Clouds of Aristophanes, a play. (5.55)

2. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869 page 10
   Read Aristophanes and satisfy yourself. (4.87)

3. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869 page 10
   What I have so often said about the much talked of parabase you will find fully confirmed by the content of the choral interludes of Aristophanes, which is quite different in character from that of Prutz. (2.07)

10 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 22547
   Attributed to ARISTOPHANES by DUBOSSE (9.82)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 29122
   Attributed to ARISTOPHANES by PRANGE (6.15)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 43833
   Attributed to ARISTOPHANES by MAGGIANI (5.84)

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