“Chorus: [We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.”

— Aristophanés , Thesmophoriazusae

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Thes.+529
Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC)

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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

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