ARISTOPHANES - The Plays of Aristophanes: THE CLOUDS

    ARISTOPHANES 

  The Plays of Aristophanes:  
   THE CLOUDS


    QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Strepsiades: these nights, how long they are. Will they ne’er pass? Will the day never come? Surely I heard the cock crow hours ago.

 Aristophanes:  Clouds Great Books Vol. 5, pp. 488

Pheidippides: What makes you toss so restless all night long?
Strepsiades: There’s a bumbailiff from the mattress bites me.

Aristophanes:  Clouds Great Books Vol. 5, pp. 488

Strepsiades: Forever cursed be that same match-maker, who stirred me up to marry your poor mother.
Aristophanes:  Clouds Great Books Vol. 5, pp. 488

Strepsiades: There dwell the men who teach – aye, who persuade us,
Aristophanes:  Clouds Great Books Vol. 5, pp. 489

Strepsiades: They teach us to talk unjustly and – prevail.
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Pheidippides: What can one learn from them that is worth knowing?
Strepsiades: Learn! Why whatever’s clever in the world: And you shall learn how gross and dense you are.
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Pheidippides: When I was young, did you not strike me then?
Strepsiades: Yea: for I loved and cherished you.
Pheidippides: Well, solve me this again, Is it not just that I your son should cherish you alike, and Strike you, since as you observe to cherish means to strike?
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Pheidippides: Perhaps you’ll urged that children’s mind alone are taught by blows;
Aristophanes:  Clouds Great Books Vol. 5, pp. 505