Saturday, June 27, 2026
Criticism
Aristophanes, Wasps 488-489 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
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How you see tyranny and conspirators everywhere,Douglas M. MacDowell ad loc.:
as soon as anyone voices a criticism large or small!
ὡς ἅπανθ᾽ ὑμῖν τυραννίς ἐστι καὶ ξυνωμόται,
ἤν τε μεῖζον ἤν τ᾽ ἔλαττον πρᾶγμά τις κατηγορῇ.
The twentieth-century English equivalents would hardly be 'tyranny' and 'conspirators', but rather 'dictatorship' and 'subversive'.
