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Euripides, Bacchae, 267-271


καλὰς ἀφορμάς, οὐ μέγʼ ἔργον εὖ λέγειν·Whenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words.


σὺ δʼ εὔτροχον μὲν γλῶσσαν ὡς φρονῶν ἔχειςWhenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words.


ἐν τοῖς λόγοισι δʼ οὐκ ἔνεισί σοι φρένες.Whenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words.


θράσει δὲ δυνατὸς καὶ λέγειν οἷός τʼ ἀνὴρA man powerful in his boldness, one capable of speaking well, becomes a bad citizen in his lack of sense. This new god, whom you ridicule, I am unable to express how great he will be throughout Hellas . For two things, young man


κακὸς πολίτης γίγνεται νοῦν οὐκ ἔχων.A man powerful in his boldness, one capable of speaking well, becomes a bad citizen in his lack of sense. This new god, whom you ridicule, I am unable to express how great he will be throughout Hellas . For two things, young man


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

10 results
1. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν
2. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας
3. Euripides, Andromache, 320, 319 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

319. ὦ δόξα δόξα, μυρίοισι δὴ βροτῶν
4. Euripides, Bacchae, 177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 214-266, 268-369, 176 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

176. θύρσους ἀνάπτειν καὶ νεβρῶν δορὰς ἔχειν
5. Euripides, Hecuba, 1188-1194, 1240-1251, 254-255, 785-904, 1187 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1187. ̓Αγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε 1187. Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man’s deeds were good, so should his words have been;
6. Euripides, Rhesus, 639 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

639. And soft shall be my words to him I hate.
7. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 1064 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1064. What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest? Evadne
8. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 385-395, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12.10.3.  And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4.  Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.
10. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began.


Subjects of this text:

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antiphon,anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
apollo,teiresias in bacchae as prophet of Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 145
aristophanes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
charlatans Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
comedy Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
deception,and tragedy Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
deception,association with rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
dionysos Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
divination Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
doxa (seeming,opinion,reputation) Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
enlightenment,politics and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 145, 146
euripides,andromache,doxa in Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,andromache Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,gorgianic elements in Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,hecuba Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,hecubas rhetoric in Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,on (im)materiality of lies Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,on doxa and deception Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,on lie-detection Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,on rhetoric of anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
euripides,on spartans Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
gorgias,and euripides Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
gorgias,encomium of helen Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
gorgias,his definition of doxa Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
gorgias,role within fifth-century enlightenment Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
gorgias,theory of apate Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
hierarchy of means Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homer Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
lampon Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
language,rhetoric Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 145, 146
lloyd,michael Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
magos Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
materiality,in euripides,of discourse Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
materiality,in euripides Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
menelaus Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
oedipus Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
pericles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
persuasion ( peitho ) Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
plague Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plutarch Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
prophet Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283
rhetoric Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 145, 146
segal,c. p. Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
sophia,wisdom ambivalence of Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
sophism of teiresias in bacchae Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144, 146
sunesis' Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
suppliant women bacchae compared Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
taplin,oliver Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
thebes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
tragedy Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231