O'Neill

Noun

Meaning

United States playwright (1888-1953)

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

Leader of the Chorus: Let's see. What shall our city be called? [...] Euelpides: Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty regions in which we dwell - in short, some well-known name. Pisthetaerus: Do you like Nephelococcygia? (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

Chorus: [We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) Aristophanes

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