1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 101-172, 208-210, 263-274, 30-33, 35, 37-39, 44, 46-50, 52-100 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 100. ἰαρταμὰν ἐξάρξαν ἀπισσόνα σάτρα. | |
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2. Aristophanes, Knights, 1331 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1331. ὅδ' ἐκεῖνος ὁρᾶν τεττιγοφόρας, ἀρχαίῳ σχήματι λαμπρός | |
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3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 102 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 102. αἰβοῖ πονηροί γ', οἶδα. τοὺς ἀλαζόνας | |
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4. Aristophanes, Frogs, 523, 463 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 463. καθ' ̔Ηρακλέα τὸ σχῆμα καὶ τὸ λῆμ' ἔχων. | |
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5. Plato, Charmides, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 173c. our shoes, nay, everything about us, and various things besides, because we should be employing genuine craftsmen? And if you liked, we might concede that prophecy, as the knowledge of what is to be, and temperance directing her, will deter the charlatans, and establish the true prophets as our prognosticators. Thus equipped, the human race would indeed act and live |
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6. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.71.6, 2.64.3, 3.58.5, 7.77.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1.71.6. But if you will only act, we will stand by you; it would be unnatural for us to change, and never should we meet with such a congenial ally. 2.64.3. Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity; even if now, in obedience to the general law of decay, we should ever be forced to yield, still it will be remembered that we held rule over more Hellenes than any other Hellenic state, that we sustained the greatest wars against their united or separate powers, and inhabited a city unrivalled by any other in resources or magnitude. 3.58.5. Pausanias buried them thinking that he was laying them in friendly ground and among men as friendly; but you, if you kill us and make the Plataean territory Theban, will leave your fathers and kinsmen in a hostile soil and among their murderers, deprived of the honors which they now enjoy. What is more, you will enslave the land in which the freedom of the Hellenes was won, make desolate the temples of the gods to whom they prayed before they overcame the Medes, and take away your ancestral sacrifices from those who founded and instituted them. 7.77.4. Others before us have attacked their neighbors and have done what men will do without suffering more than they could bear; and we may now justly expect to find the gods more kind, for we have become fitter objects for their pity than their jealousy. And then look at yourselves, mark the numbers and efficiency of the heavy infantry marching in your ranks, and do not give way too much to despondency, but reflect that you are yourselves at once a city wherever you sit down, and that there is no other in Sicily that could easily resist your attack, or expel you when once established. |
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7. Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus, 2.2.12 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 2.2.12. Hush said Cyrus . don’t call these men humbugs. For to me, the name humbug seems to apply to those who pretend that they are richer than they are or braver than they are, and to those who promise to do what they cannot do, and that, too, when it is evident that they do this only for the sake of getting something or making some gain. But those who invent stories to amuse their companions and not for their own gain nor at the expense of their hearers nor to the injury of any one, why should these men not be called witty and entertaining rather than humbugs ? |
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8. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.7.5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1.7.5. The man who persuades you to lend him money or goods and then keeps them is without doubt a rogue; but much the greatest rogue of all is the man who has gulled his city into the belief that he is fit to direct it. For my part I thought that such talks did discourage imposture among his companions. |
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