Aristophanes

How To Use Aristophanes In A Sentence

• A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician The Symposium
• Finally, Aristophanes commented Athenian law court system. He criticized that the jurors lacked of responsibilities, civic officials accepted bribe and orators hindered the justice.
• So as to retemper myself in something stronger, I reread the great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers. The Biglow Papers
• Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician Symposium
• Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
• A pleasant Comedie entituled Hey for Honesty...translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus.
• The comic dramatist Aristophanes wrote an unpleasant play, The Clouds, about him, and he was attacked after his death.
• Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
• Molière, in his best pieces, is as superior to the pure but cold Terence, and to the buffoon Aristophanes, as to the merry-andrew Dancourt. A Philosophical Dictionary