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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 158 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=240gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 158 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=240gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (Knight'i Quarterly Magazine, January 1824.) A DRAMA. Scene ? A Street in Athem. Enter Callidemus and Speusippus. CALLIDEMUS. So, you young reprobate! You must be a man of wit, forsooth, and a man of quality! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias, and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles! You must dangle after sophists and pretty women ! And I must pay for all! I must sup on thyme and onions, while you are swallowing thrushes and hares! I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus 1 with Chian wine ! I must wander about as ragged as Pauson,2 that you may be as fine as Alcibiades ! I must lie on bare boards, with a stone 8 for my pillow, and a rotten mat for my coverlid, by the light of a wretched winking lamp, while you are marching in state, with as many torches as one sees at the feast of Ceres, to thunder with yourhatchet1 at the doors of half the Ionian ladies in Peiraeus.2 1 This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments. 2 Pauson was an Athenian painter, whose name was synonymous with beggary. See Aristophanes; Plutus, 602. From his poverty, I am inclined to suppose that he painted historical pictures. 8 See Aristophanes; Plutus, 542. SPEUSIPPUS. Why, thou unreasonable old man! Thou most shameless of fathers ! CALLIDEMUS. Ungrateful wretch; dare you talk so ? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter ? SPEUSIPPUS. Jupiter thunder! nonsense ! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only an explosion produced by CALLIDEMUS. He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains I 8PZUSIPPUS. Nay: talk rationally. CALLIDEMUS. Rationally ! You audacious young sophist! I will talk rationally. Do y...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (Knight'i Quarterly Magazine, January 1824.) A DRAMA. Scene ? A Street in Athem. Enter Callidemus and Speusippus. CALLIDEMUS. So, you young reprobate! You must be a man of wit, forsooth, and a man of quality! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias, and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles! You must dangle after sophists and pretty women ! And I must pay for all! I must sup on thyme and onions, while you are swallowing thrushes and hares! I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus 1 with Chian wine ! I must wander about as ragged as Pauson,2 that you may be as fine as Alcibiades ! I must lie on bare boards, with a stone 8 for my pillow, and a rotten mat for my coverlid, by the light of a wretched winking lamp, while you are marching in state, with as many torches as one sees at the feast of Ceres, to thunder with yourhatchet1 at the doors of half the Ionian ladies in Peiraeus.2 1 This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments. 2 Pauson was an Athenian painter, whose name was synonymous with beggary. See Aristophanes Plutus, 602. From his poverty, I am inclined to suppose that he painted historical pictures. 8 See Aristophanes Plutus, 542. SPEUSIPPUS. Why, thou unreasonable old man! Thou most shameless of fathers ! CALLIDEMUS. Ungrateful wretch dare you talk so ? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter ? SPEUSIPPUS. Jupiter thunder! nonsense ! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only an explosion produced by CALLIDEMUS. He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains I 8PZUSIPPUS. Nay: talk rationally. CALLIDEMUS. Rationally ! You audacious young sophist! I will talk rationally. Do y...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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