The Clouds
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How it opens
Strepsiades (sitting up in his bed). Ah me! Ah me! O King Jupiter, of what a terrible length the nights are! Will it never be day? And yet long since I heard the cock. My domestics are snoring; but they would not have done so heretofore! May you perish then, O war! For many reasons; because I may not even punish my domestics. Neither does this excellent youth awake through the night; but takes his ease, wrapped up in…
Details
- AuthorAristophanes
- SourceProject Gutenberg #2562
- Length14,314 words · 57 min of reading
- Chapters2
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
2 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Trans. William James Hickie
- 02DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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