Chorus [leader]: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, … - Aristophanes

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Chorus [leader]: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

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Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant, plus a thousand fragments of the others.

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Native Name: Ἀριστοφάνης

Alternative Names: Father of Comedy

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Just Cause: [Learn] not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

One's country is wherever one does well.

Où l'on est bien, là est la patrie.

HOROVOĐA MUŠKOG HORA:
Ni sa kojom zverkom no sa ženom
nije teži boj,
nit je oganj tako nit je panter
besan ijedan.

HOROVOĐA ŽENSKOG HORA:
To ti znadeš, al opet, rđo,
sa mnom ratuješ,
a ja verna mogla bih ti biti
prijateljica?

Chorus [leader]: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, /… - Aristophanes

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