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ARISTOPHANES.

"The keys work loose, the strings are slack, the melodies a jar."[1]

If so, Aristophanes never challenged and won the dramatic crown again, as Cratinus had done, to confound his younger critics. The curtain was soon about to fall for him altogether. He died a year or two afterwards.





END OF ARISTOPHANES.





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  1. The Knights, l. 532.