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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


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