- Play by Aristophanes
- It is in GB Volume 5.
- People in the play: Praxagora, Two Women, Blepyrus, husband of Praxagora, A Citizen, Chremes, A Crier, Three Hags, A Girl, A Youth, A Servant-Maid of Praxagora, Chorus of Women
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The Ecclesiazusae - Readwise Highlights
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- Author: Aristophanes
- Full Title: The Ecclesiazusae
- Category: articles
- URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/273523537
Highlights
- If we can seize upon the helm of state And trim the ship to weather through the storm; For neither sails nor oars avail it now. (View Highlight)
- Youths that are most effeminate, they say, Are always strongest in the speaking line; And we’ve got that by nature. (View Highlight)
- For ways and means none can excel a woman. And there’s no fear at all that they’ll be cheated When they’re in power, for they’re the cheats themselves. (View Highlight)
- Ye are to blame for this, Athenian people, Ye draw your wages from the public purse, Yet each man seeks his private gain alone. So the State reels. (View Highlight)
- I move that now the womankind be asked To rule the State. In our own homes, ye know, They are the managers and rule the house. (View Highlight)
- With nothing on, as most of us supposed, But he himself insisted he was clothed. He made a popular democratic speech. (View Highlight)
- And then the woman is, he said, a thing Stuffed full of wit and moneymaking ways. They don’t betray their Thesmophorian secrets, But you and I blab all State secrets out. (View Highlight)
- And women lend each other, said the lad, Their dresses, trinkets, money, drinking-cups, Though quite alone, with never a witness there. And all restore the loan, and none withhold it. (View Highlight)
- all shall be equal, and equally share All wealth and enjoyments, nor longer endure That one should be rich, and another be poor, That one should have acres, far-stretching and wide, And another not even enough to provide Himself with a grave (View Highlight)
- All women and men will be common and free, No marriage or other restraint there will be. (View Highlight)
- By the side of the beauty, so stately and grand, The dwarf, the deformed, and the ugly will stand; And before you’re entitled the beauty to woo, Your court you must pay to the hag and the shrew. (View Highlight)
- Bl. Will thieves be unknown ? Pr. Why, how should they steal what is partly their own ? (View Highlight)
- There’ll be plenty for all, and to spare. No stint and no grudging our system will know, But each will away from the revelry go, Elated and grand, with a torch in his hand And a garland of flowers in his hair. (View Highlight)
- O grudge not the young their enjoyment. For beauty the softest and best Is breathed o’er the limbs of a maiden, And blooms on the maidenly breast. (View Highlight)
- O God of Love, I cry to thee; Be pitiful, be merciful, And send my love to me. (View Highlight)
- If thus ye carry out the law, erelong Ye’ll have an Oedipus in every house. (View Highlight)