Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
children men way
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
father men age
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
men gold honest
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
men slavery half
A slave is but half a man.
war winning men
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
men debt owing
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
men wicked honest
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
men voice feminism
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
country men able
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
men house homeland
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
men grieving hands
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
men humanity may
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
voice politician breeding
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
best-friend travel two
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.