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The Acharnians |
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| Author
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Aristophanes
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| Category
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Drama
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| Language
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English
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| Published
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425 BC
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was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus,[4] what tragic despair it caused
me when the herald called, "Theognis,[5] introduce your Chorus!" Just
imagine how this blow struck straight at my heart! On the other hand, what joy
Dexitheus caused me at the musical competition, when he played a Boeotian melody
on the lyre! But this year by contrast! Oh! what deadly torture to hear Chaeris[6]
perform the prelude in the Orthian mode![7] --Never, however, since I began to
bathe, has the dust hurt my eyes as it does to-day. Still it is the day of assembly;
all should be here at daybreak, and yet the Pnyx[8] is still deserted. They are
gossiping in the marketplace, slipping hither and thither to avoid the vermilioned
rope.[9] The Prytanes[10] even do not come; they will be late, but when they come
they will push and fight each other for a seat in the front row. They will never
trouble themselves with the question of peace. Oh! Athens! Athens! As for myself,
I do not fail to come here before all the rest, and
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