The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

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Аристофан

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2018

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The chief Athenian tribunal only next in dignity to the Areopagus; it generally consisted of two hundred members; it tried civil cases of the greatest importance and some crimes beyond the competence of other courts, e.g. rape, adultery, extortion. The sittings were in the open air, hence the name ([Greek: _Elios], the sun).

34

The Heliasts' salary. (See above.)

35

Tributary to Athens; Olynthus and Potidaea were the chief towns of this important Peninsula.

36

Meaning he frightens him with the menace of judicial prosecution forces him to purchase silence.

37

The strategi were the heads of the military forces.

38

They presided at the Public Assemblies; they were also empowered to try the most important cases.

39

An allusion to Cleon's former calling.

40

A country deme of Attica.

41

Archeptolemus, a resident alien, who lived in Piraeus. He had loaded Athens with gifts and was nevertheless maltreated by Cleon.

42

This was easier than against a citizen because of the inferiority, in which the pride of the Athenian held those born on other soil.

43

When drunk he conceives himself rich and the man to buy up the rich silver mines of Laurium, in south-east Attica.

44

The Chorus throws itself between Cleon and Agoracritus to protect the latter.

45

An iron collar, an instrument of torture and of punishment.

46

A disease among swine.

47

Cleon wanted the Spartans to purchase the prisoners of Sphacteria from him.

48

With piss—the result of his drunken habits.

49

A tragic poet, apparently proverbial for feebleness of style.

50

Beginning of a song of Simonides.

51

A miser.

52

Guests used pieces of bread to wipe their fingers at table.

53

'Dog's head,' a vicious species of ape.

54

They were allowed to remain in the ground throughout the winter so that they might grow tender.

55

An allusion to the pederastic habits ascribed to some of the orators by popular rumour.

56

He imputes the crime to Agoracritus of which he is guilty himself.

57

A town in Thrace and subject to Athens. It therefore paid tribute to the latter. It often happened that the demagogues extracted considerable sums from the tributaries by threats or promises.