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Euripides, Orestes, 903-909
ἀνήρ τις ἀθυρόγλωσσος, ἰσχύων θράσει Next stood up a fellow, who cannot close his lips; one whose impudence is his strength; an Argive , but not of Argos , forced on us;
̓Αργεῖος οὐκ ̓Αργεῖος, ἠναγκασμένος Next stood up a fellow, who cannot close his lips; one whose impudence is his strength; an Argive , but not of Argos , forced on us;
θορύβῳ τε πίσυνος κἀμαθεῖ παρρησίᾳ confident in bluster and ignorant free speech, and plausible enough to involve them in some mischief sooner or later; for whenever a man with a pleasing trick of speech, but of unsound principles, persuades the mob, it is a serious evil to the state; but those who give sound and sensible advice on all occasions
πιθανὸς ἔτ' αὐτοὺς περιβαλεῖν κακῷ τινι: confident in bluster and ignorant free speech, and plausible enough to involve them in some mischief sooner or later; for whenever a man with a pleasing trick of speech, but of unsound principles, persuades the mob, it is a serious evil to the state; but those who give sound and sensible advice on all occasions
ὅταν γὰρ ἡδύς τις λόγοις φρονῶν κακῶς confident in bluster and ignorant free speech, and plausible enough to involve them in some mischief sooner or later; for whenever a man with a pleasing trick of speech, but of unsound principles, persuades the mob, it is a serious evil to the state; but those who give sound and sensible advice on all occasions
πείθῃ τὸ πλῆθος, τῇ πόλει κακὸν μέγα: confident in bluster and ignorant free speech, and plausible enough to involve them in some mischief sooner or later; for whenever a man with a pleasing trick of speech, but of unsound principles, persuades the mob, it is a serious evil to the state; but those who give sound and sensible advice on all occasions
ὅσοι δὲ σὺν νῷ χρηστὰ βουλεύους' ἀεί confident in bluster and ignorant free speech, and plausible enough to involve them in some mischief sooner or later; for whenever a man with a pleasing trick of speech, but of unsound principles, persuades the mob, it is a serious evil to the state; but those who give sound and sensible advice on all occasions

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1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 275, 432, 470-524, 526-531, 585, 595, 604-606, 609-675, 679-681, 683, 689-706, 708-710, 723-728, 736-740, 214 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 214. Ἥρας τελείας καὶ Διὸς πιστώματα.
2. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 376-676, 375 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 375. λέγοιμʼ ἂν εἰδὼς εὖ τὰ τῶν ἐναντίων 375. It is with certain knowledge that I will give my account of the enemy’s actions, how each man according to lot has been posted at the gates. Tydeus is already storming opposite the Proetid gates; but the seer will not allow him to ford the Ismenus because the omens from the sacrifices are not favorable.
3. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 473-479, 457 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 457. φεῦ:
4. Aristophanes, Knights, 19, 132 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 132. μετὰ τοῦτον αὖθις προβατοπώλης δεύτερος.
5. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 384-388, 455-456, 383 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 383. φιλοτιμίᾳ μὲν οὐδεμιᾷ μὰ τὼ θεὼ
6. Euripides, Bacchae, 271, 270 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 270. θράσει δὲ δυνατὸς καὶ λέγειν οἷός τʼ ἀνὴρ 270. 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
7. Euripides, Electra, 528-544, 527 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 527. ἔπειτα χαίτης πῶς συνοίσεται πλόκος
8. Euripides, Hecuba, 108-135, 714-715, 107 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 107. ἐν γὰρ ̓Αχαιῶν πλήρει ξυνόδῳ
9. Euripides, Orestes, 402, 536-537, 608-629, 729-730, 866-902, 904-956, 963-964, 968-970, 974-975, 982-984, 1661 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
10. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 350-351, 396-462, 349 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
11. Sophocles, Electra, 1509-1510, 1508 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
12. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 397-400, 735-736, 751, 753-754, 756-757, 396 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
13. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 408-409, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
14. Demosthenes, Orations, 57.18 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
15. New Testament, Apocalypse, 18, 17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
16. New Testament, Ephesians, 6.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 6.16. above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
amphiaraus, knights	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
amphiaraus, lysistrata	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
amphiaraus, wasps	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
andromache	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619, 865
animal, dog	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
animal, pig	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
animal	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
apostle, paul	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
aristophanes, comic poet	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
aristotle, and the tragic chorus in the fourth century	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 244
aristotle aristotle	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154
athens, imperialism (athenian)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
atreus	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
audience	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154, 241
babylon	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
bad (κακός)	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
bakchylides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
balzac	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
barbarian	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
barrett, w.s.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
biography (lives)	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
characters, tragic/mythical, diomedes	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
characters, tragic/mythical, electra	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 244, 260
characters, tragic/mythical, eteocles	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
characters, tragic/mythical, furies (erinyes)	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
characters, tragic/mythical, orestes	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
characters, tragic/mythical, talthybius	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
characters	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
children of heracles (heraclidae)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
citizenship	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
comedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
community	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154
creon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
demagogue	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
democracy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
dickens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
dikê	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
divine being, the devil	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
drama	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154, 241
electra	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
epitaphioi logoi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
euripides, and actors song	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 244
euripides, and allusion in tragedy	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
euripides, metatheatre	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
euripides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154, 241; Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
fathers	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
forensic oratory	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
greek tragedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154
halliwell, s.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
hecuba	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
heracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
herodotus	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
hippolytus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619, 865
ion	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
law, athenian	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
lloyd, m.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
mills, s. xxiv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
name	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
oedipus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
oracles	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 209
oratory	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
orestes	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154, 241; Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
past	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
peirithous	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
performance	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154
persuasion	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160
pindar	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241
poetry	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154
politics	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 241; Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
polydoros	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
polymestor	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
realism	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619
revenge	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
rhetoric, allegory, symbolism	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
rhetoric, forensic	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
rhetoric, metaphor	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
rhetoric, slander	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
rhetoric, topos	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
rhetoric	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154; Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
self-consciousness, in tragedy, allusion	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
self-consciousness, in tragedy, metatheatre	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
slavery (servant)	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
sophocles, and music/song	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 244
sophocles, metatheatre	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
sophocles, oedipus at colonus	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 260
sophocles	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
speaker	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 160, 241
suppliant women (supplices)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 619, 865
theater, comedy	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
thrace	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
tragedy, and law'	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 374
tragedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 154, 241
trojan women (troades)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 865
troy	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131
warfare, military	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 94
with	Liatsi, Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (2021) 131