If so, Aristophanes never challenged and won the dramatic crown again, as Cratinus had done, to confound his younger critics. The curtain was soon about to fall for him altogether. He died a year or two afterwards.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Introd. to ‘Cicero’ (A. C.)
[2] “Here, in his native tongue and among his own countrymen, Punch is a person of real power: he dresses up and retails all the drolleries of the day; he is the channel and sometimes the source of the passing opinions; he could gain a mob, or keep the whole kingdom in good humour.”—Forsyth’s Italy, ii. 35.
[3] See ‘Æschylus’ (A. C.), chap. i.
[4] The appeal which Harpagon makes to the audience to help him to discover the thief who has stolen his money (‘L’Avare,’ act iv. sc. 7) is an exact parallel with that of the two slaves in ‘The Knights’ (see p. 18), and again in ‘The Wasps,’ when they come forward and consult them confidentially in their difficulties.
[5] The Knights, I. 233.
[6] The Clouds.
[7] The Frogs, l. 1073.