Aristophanés: Quotes about the trip

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“Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”

Aristophanés The Knights

tr. O&#x27;Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Kn.+864 <br class="br">ὅπερ γὰρ οἱ τὰς ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενοι πέπονθας.<br>ὅταν μὲν ἡ λίμνη καταστῇ, λαμβάνουσιν οὐδέν·<br>ἐὰν δ᾽ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω τὸν βόρβορον κυκῶσιν,<br>αἱροῦσι· καὶ σὺ λαμβάνεις, ἢν τὴν πόλιν ταράττῃς. <br class="br">Knights, line 864-867 <br class="br">Dialog aimed at the politician Cleon, symbolizing demagogues for the author. <br class="br">Knights (424 BC) <br class="br">Source: The Knights

“Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way! ”

Aristophanés The Birds

(tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, p. 326 http://books.google.com/books?id=Cm4NAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA326) <br class="br">Birds (414 BC) <br class="br">Variant: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.

“Dicaeopolis: Well, how are things at Megara?
Megarian: We are crying with hunger at our firesides.
Dicaeopolis: The fireside is jolly enough with a piper. But what else is doing at Megara, eh?
Megarian: What else? When I left for the market, the authorities were taking steps to let us die in the quickest manner.
Dicaeopolis: That is the best way to get you out of all your troubles.
Megarian: True.
Dicaeopolis: What other news of Megara? What is wheat selling at?
Megarian: With us it is valued as highly as the very gods in heaven!”

Aristophanés The Acharnians

tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Ach.+751 <br class="br">Acharnians, line 751-759 <br class="br">Acharnians (425 BC)

“Chorus [of Birds]: Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”

Aristophanés The Birds

tr. in Bartlett 1968, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor%3A%22John+Bartlett%22+date%3A1968-1968+%22Full+of+wiles%2C+full+of+guile%2C+at+all+times%2C+in+all+ways%2C+are+the+children+of+Men%22 or Archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/familiarquotatio017007mbp/familiarquotatio017007mbp_djvu.txt <br class="br">Birds, line 451-452 <br class="br">Compare the earlier-written but later-known: &quot;The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked&quot;, Jeremiah, 17:9 KJV Bible http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+17:9&amp;version=9. <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
[Choir of] Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.”

Aristophanés Lysistrata

tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014 <br class="br">Lysistrata, line 1014-1017 <br class="br">Lysistrata (411 BC)