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  • Both Alexis (Fr. 223 = Athenaeus IV 161b) and Cratinus the younger

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Laespodias in Eupolis, Cinesias in Plato, and Lampo in Cratinus, and who is each person that is jeered in the play.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • And therefore some of the comedians seem to lay aside their bitterness in every jest that may reflect upon themselves; as Aristophanes, when he is merry upon a baldpate; and Cratinus in his play

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Laespodias in Eupolis, Cinesias in Plato, and Lampo in Cratinus, and who is each person that is jeered in the play.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And therefore some of the comedians seem to lay aside their bitterness in every jest that may reflect upon themselves; as Aristophanes, when he is merry upon a baldpate; and Cratinus in his play

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • This, Cratinus the poet speaks of in one of his comedies, the Archilochi: —

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • If I don't hate you, why, I'm ready to take the place of the one blanket Cratinus wets; I'll offer to play a tragedy by

    The Knights 2000

  • Cratinus again was like a torrent of glory rushing across the plain, up-rooting oak, plane tree and rivals and bearing them pell-mell in his wake.

    The Knights 2000

  • That returning all-fevered from horse practice, he may meet an Orestes, mad with drink, who will crack him over the head; that wishing to seize a stone, he, in the dark, may pick up a fresh turd, hurl, miss him and hit Cratinus.

    The Acharnians 2000

  • Hyperbolus [241] and his unceasing quibblings, without being accosted on the public place by any importunate fellow, neither by Cratinus, [242] shaven in the fashion of the debauchees, nor by this musician, who plagues us with his silly improvisations, Artemo, with his arm-pits stinking as foul as a goat, like his father before him.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

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