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Excerpt from The Birds of Aristophanes, Considered in Relation to Athenian Politics Clough, or by Stewart and Long, but I have varied them considerably in places with the object of a more literal rendering. The quotations from Aristophanes follow mainly the Bohn translation, a literal prose rendering of that author being, in my opinion, Of more value than verse. For the extracts from the Athenian Constitution I have followed the rendering, with one or two slight verbal altera tions, of Sir F. G. Kenyon. I have made use of English in preference to the Greek for these quotations, because I am in hope that this book will prove Of some interest to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.