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Born in 448 BC / Died in 380 BC / Greece / Greek

Poems by Aristophanes

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The Building Of The Cloud-Cuckoo-Town

...   And trains of ducks there were, clambering the ladders ...

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Chorus Of Mystae In Hades

... _Bac_.--Keep quiet--and watch for a chance of a piece of the haslets ...

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A Parody On Euripides's Lyric Verse

...   But that's a consideration I leave to our musical man ...

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Chorus of Brids

... You have learnt from the Birds, and continue to learn, ...

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The Harvest

...   While our grateful voices chime,-- ...

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The Prologues Of Euripides

... _Dion_.--Well, recite another, and steer clear of the smelling-salts ...

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SONG OF THE CLOUDS (from The Clouds)

... To the peaks of the pine-covered mountains where the pines hang as tressed of hair ...

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The Appeal Of The Chorus

...   That with taste and good sense, without waste or expense, ...

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The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War

...   Would bury them in their houses with his earthquakes ...

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Chorus Of Women

...   If she hides, then they all keep staring ...

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The Call Of The Nightingale

...   While all the gods shall join with thee ...

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Grand Chorus Of Birds

...   And before this was not the race of the gods, until all things by Love ...

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The Cloud Chorus

...   Or whether ye dance with the Nereid Choir in the gardens clear, ...

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The Poet's Apology

...   He will teach you to think, he will teach you to laugh ...

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A Rainy Day On The Farm

...   To join our drinking bout to-day, since heaven is pleased to bless our ...