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Colloquial Expressions in Aeschylus and Sophocles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

P. T. Stevens
Affiliation:
Pretoria.

Extract

In an article published in the C.Q. of October 1937 I collected instances of the use of colloquial words and expressions in the dialogue passages of Euripides. It was there noted that a few of these expressions also appear in Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the purpose of the present study is to collect these, together with other instances of colloquialism which are found in the two earlier tragedians and not in Euripides. The colloquial element in the language of Aeschylus and Sophocles is, of course, much smaller than in Euripides, but is perhaps greater than is sometimes supposed, and the topic has apparently not been treated elsewhere.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1945

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