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THE THESMOPHORIAZUSÆ.

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Mnes. Yes, by Hercules, I think so !

Eur. Be silent then!^[1]

Mnes. Must I be silent about the little door ?

Eur. Hear !

Mnes. Must I hear and be silent about the little door ?

Eur, Here dwells^[2] the illustrious Agathon the tragic poet.

Mnes. Of what sort^[3] is this Agathon ?

Eur. There is a certain Agathon

Mnes. Is it the black, the strong one ?

Eur. No; another one. Have you never seen him?^[4]

Mnes. Is it the shaggy-bearded one?^[5]

Eur. Have you never seen him ?

Mnes. Certainly not, by Jove, as far as I know!^[6]

Eur. And yet you have coquetted with him, but you don't know it^[7] perhaps. Come, let us crouch out of the way! for a domestic of his is coming out with fire and myrtle- wreaths. He seems about to make a previous^[8] sacrifice on behalf of his poetic composition. [They retire to one side.]

Servant of Agathon (coming out of the house). Let all the people abstain from ill-omened words, having closed their mouths ; for the company of the Muses is sojourning within

↑ Cratinus, (ap. Bekk. Anecd. p. 372, 8,) ἄκουε, σίγα, πρόσεχε τὸν νοῦν, δεῦῤ ὅρα.
↑ Poeta incertus ap. Scliol. Eur. Troad 822,

ὅρας; ἐν τῇδε μὲν
ὁ τῶν Φρυγῶν τύραννος οἰκῶν τυγχάνει
γέρων, ἀπ' ὀργῆς Λαομέδων καλούμενος.
↑ Comp. Aves, 1021. Acharn. 963.
↑ "Agathon had commenced his literary career only three years before." Scholiast." Aristophanes depicts him as a male coquette." Droysen. See Dawes, M. C. p. 577, ed. Kidd.
↑ "Egregie Vossius, 'Nun, der mit dem Biischbarf?' " Fritzsche.
↑ See Hermann, Vig.n. 154. Cf. Nub. 1252. Eccles. 350. Pax, 852. Blomf. gloss. Pers. 720, and for οὔτοι γε, see Herm. Vig. n. 266.
↑ " Mit ihm gebuhlt schon hast dii wohl, nur weisst du 's nicht." Droysen. "Euripides laughs at the effeminate poet, whom he is going to make use of as a woman, and at the same time discloses to Mnesilochus what sort of person this Agathon is. Accordingly Mnesilochus, as soon as he sees Agathon, (vs. 98,) says, ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχ ὁρῶ ἄνδρ' οὐδέν' ἐνθάδ' ὄντα, Κυρήνην δ' ὁρῶ. This therefore is what Euripides says, Quid? iwn vidisti cum? Scilicet mulierem esse putabas." Enger.
↑ "Der Poesie Voropfer, scheint es, bringt er dar!" Droysen. "ὅτε γὰρ δρᾶμα ποιῆσαι ἤθελον, πρότερον θυσίας ἐποίουν." Scholiast.

[1] Cratinus, (ap. Bekk. Anecd. p. 372, 8,) ἄκουε, σίγα, πρόσεχε τὸν νοῦν, δεῦῤ ὅρα.

[2] Poeta incertus ap. Scliol. Eur. Troad 822,

ὅρας; ἐν τῇδε μὲν
ὁ τῶν Φρυγῶν τύραννος οἰκῶν τυγχάνει
γέρων, ἀπ' ὀργῆς Λαομέδων καλούμενος.

[3] Comp. Aves, 1021. Acharn. 963.

[4] "Agathon had commenced his literary career only three years before." Scholiast." Aristophanes depicts him as a male coquette." Droysen. See Dawes, M. C. p. 577, ed. Kidd.

[5] "Egregie Vossius, 'Nun, der mit dem Biischbarf?' " Fritzsche.

[6] See Hermann, Vig.n. 154. Cf. Nub. 1252. Eccles. 350. Pax, 852. Blomf. gloss. Pers. 720, and for οὔτοι γε, see Herm. Vig. n. 266.

[7] " Mit ihm gebuhlt schon hast dii wohl, nur weisst du 's nicht." Droysen. "Euripides laughs at the effeminate poet, whom he is going to make use of as a woman, and at the same time discloses to Mnesilochus what sort of person this Agathon is. Accordingly Mnesilochus, as soon as he sees Agathon, (vs. 98,) says, ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχ ὁρῶ ἄνδρ' οὐδέν' ἐνθάδ' ὄντα, Κυρήνην δ' ὁρῶ. This therefore is what Euripides says, Quid? iwn vidisti cum? Scilicet mulierem esse putabas." Enger.

[8] "Der Poesie Voropfer, scheint es, bringt er dar!" Droysen. "ὅτε γὰρ δρᾶμα ποιῆσαι ἤθελον, πρότερον θυσίας ἐποίουν." Scholiast.

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