The Frogs - highlights
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Title: The Frogs
Author: Aristophanes
Summary: The Frogs (Greek: Βάτραχοι, translit. Bátrakhoi, lit. "Frogs"; Latin: Ranae, often abbreviated Ran. or Ra.) is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC and received first place. (wikipedia)
Highlights
when I see Their plays, and hear those jokes, I come away More than a twelvemonth older than I went. — location: 68 ^ref-40418
Aye truly, — location: 85 ^ref-20686
HER. O by Demeter, I can't choose but laugh. Biting my lips won't stop me. Ha! ha! ha! — location: 85 ^ref-51800
Have you e'er felt a sudden lust for soup? HER. Soup! Zeus-a-mercy, yes, ten thousand times. — location: 98 ^ref-30505
DIO. O that would break my brain's two envelopes. I'll not try that — location: 141 ^ref-57855
DIO. Go, hang yourselves; for what care I? — location: 212 ^ref-15058
Empusa's gone. DIO. Swear it. XAN. By Zeus she is. DIO. Swear it again. XAN. By Zeus. DIO. Again — location: 242 ^ref-28460
DIO. Boy! boy! AEACUS. Who's there? DIO. I, Heracles the strong! AEAC. O, you most shameless desperate ruffian, you! O, villain, villain, arrant vilest villain! — location: 325 ^ref-3636
XAN. Get up, you laughing-stock; get up directly, Before you're seen. DIO. What, I get up? I'm fainting. Please dab a sponge of water on my heart. — location: 334 ^ref-7148