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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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2018
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The Peloponnesian War had already, at the date of the representation of the 'Acharnians,' lasted five years, 431-426 B.C.; driven from their lands by the successive Lacedaemonian invasions, the people throughout the country had been compelled to seek shelter behind the walls of Athens.
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Shortly before the meeting of the Assembly, a number of young pigs were immolated and a few drops of their blood were sprinkled on the seats of the Prytanes; this sacrifice was in honour of Ceres.
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The name, Amphitheus, contains the word, [Greek: Theos], god.
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Amongst other duties, it was the office of the Prytanes to look after the wants of the poor.
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The summer residence of the Great King.
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Referring to the hardships he had endured garrisoning the walls of Athens during the Lacedaemonian invasions early in the War.
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Cranaus, the second king of Athens, the successor of Cecrops.
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Lucian, in his 'Hermotimus,' speaks of these golden mountains as an apocryphal land of wonders and prodigies.
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Cleonymus was an Athenian general of exceptionally tall stature; Aristophanes incessantly rallies him for his cowardice; he had cast away his buckler in a fight.
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A name borne by certain officials of the King of Persia. The actor of this part wore a mask, fitted with a single eye of great size.
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Jargon, no doubt meaningless in all languages.
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The Persians styled all Greeks 'Ionians' without distinction; here the Athenians are intended.
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A Greek measure, containing about six modii.
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Noted for his extreme ugliness and his obscenity. Aristophanes frequently holds him to scorn in his comedies.
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Ambassadors were entertained there at the public expense.
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King of Thrace.
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The tragic poet.
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A feast lasting three days and celebrated during the month Pyanepsion (November). The Greek word contains the suggestion of fraud ([Greek: apat_e]).
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A Thracian tribe from the right bank of the Strymon.
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The Boeotians were the allies of Sparta.
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Dicaeopolis had brought a clove of garlic with him to eat during the Assembly.
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Garlic was given to game-cocks, before setting them at each other, to give them pluck for the fight.
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At the least unfavourable omen, the sitting of the Assembly was declared at an end.
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The deme of Acharnae was largely inhabited by charcoal-burners, who supplied the city with fuel.
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He presents them in the form of wines contained in three separate skins.
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