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id: 1798
author: Shakespeare, William
title: Timon of Athens
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  THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#100) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED


id: 1113
author: Shakespeare, William
title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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words: 40
sentence: 3
flesch: 79
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  THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1514) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1514 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED


id: 12842
author: Colman, George
title: A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763)
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words: 4788
sentence: 429
flesch: 99
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  Welcome, welcome to this place, Favorite of the Fairy Queen; Zephyrs, play around his face, Wash, ye dews, his graceful mien. Enter Queen of the Fairies, and her Train.


id: 3012
author: Aristophanes
title: The Acharnians
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words: 13741
sentence: 1114
flesch: 85
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  Dicaeopolis, an Athenian citizen, but a native of Acharnae, one of the agricultural demes and one which had especially suffered in the Lacedaemonian invasions, sick and tired of the ill-success and miseries of the War, makes up his mind, if he fails to induce the people to adopt his policy of peace at any price, to conclude a private and particular peace of his own to cover himself, his family, and his estate. Accordingly Dicaeopolis dispatches an envoy to Sparta on his own account, who comes back presently with a selection of specimen treaties in his pocket.


id: 3013
author: Aristophanes
title: The Birds
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words: 21622
sentence: 1814
flesch: 85
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  PISTHETAERUS Take it then, and be off. PISTHETAERUS Take your flight, clear off, you miserable cur, or you will soon see what comes of quibbling and lying.


id: 26095
author: Aristotle
title: The Athenian Constitution
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sentence: 776
flesch: 59
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  At last, when for all his efforts he could not obtain release by death, he promised to give further information against a number of other persons; and, having induced Hippias to give him his hand to confirm his word, as soon as he had hold of it he reviled him for giving his hand to the murderer of his brother, till Hippias, in a frenzy of rage, lost control of himself and snatched out his dagger and dispatched him. The Polemarch, however, brings up in person cases in which an alien is charged with deserting his patron or neglecting to provide himself with one, and also of inheritances and wards of state where aliens are concerned; and in fact, generally, whatever the Archon does for citizens, the Polemarch does for aliens.


id: 6878
author: Demosthenes
title: The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes
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words: 33726
sentence: 1429
flesch: 68
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  For if there be any among them experienced in battles and campaigns, Philip is jealous of such men and drives them away, he says, wishing to keep the glory of all actions to himself; his jealousy (among other failings) being excessive. We negotiated for peace with them; this hampered (as it were) and annoyed Philip, that a great city, reconciled to us, should be watching opportunities against him.


id: 6154
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
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words: 35898
sentence: 1268
flesch: 55
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  Aristides, instead of naming Athens, which might have excited new jealousies, proposed the sacred Isle of Delos, a spot peculiarly appropriate, since it once had been the navel of the Ionian commerce, as the place of convocation and the common treasury: the temple was to be the senate house. Thus, at home and abroad, time and fortune, the concurrence of events, and the happy accident of great men, not only maintained the present eminence of Athens, but promised, to ordinary foresight, a long duration of her glory and her power.


id: 6153
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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flesch: 57
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  VII The Advice of Demaratus to Xerxes.--Themistocles.--Actions off Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are repulsed with great Loss.--The Athenians, unaided by their Allies, abandon Athens, and embark for Salamis.--The irresolute and selfish Policy of the Peloponnesians.--Dexterity and Firmness of Themistocles.-- Battle of Salamis.--Andros and Carystus besieged by the Greeks.--Anecdotes of Themistocles.--Honours awarded to him in Sparta.--Xerxes returns to Asia.--Olynthus and Potidaea besieged by Artabazus.--The Athenians return Home.--The Ostracism of Aristides is repealed. VIII Embassy of Alexander of Macedon to Athens.--The Result of his Proposals.--Athenians retreat to Salamis.--Mardonius occupies Athens.--The Athenians send Envoys to Sparta.-- Pausanias succeeds Cleombrotus as Regent of Sparta.--Battle of Plataea.--Thebes besieged by the Athenians.--Battle of Mycale.--Siege of Sestos.--Conclusion of the Persian War. The Advice of Demaratus to Xerxes.--Themistocles.--Actions off Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are repulsed with great Loss.--The Athenians, unaided by their Allies, abandon Athens, and embark for Salamis.--The irresolute and selfish Policy of the Peloponnesians.--Dexterity and Firmness of Themistocles.--Battle of Salamis.--Andros and Carystus besieged by the Greeks.--Anecdotes of Themistocles.--Honours awarded to him in Sparta.--Xerxes returns to Asia.--Olynthus and Potidaea besieged by Artabazus.--The Athenians return Home.--The Ostracism of Aristides is repealed.


id: 6155
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V
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words: 44839
sentence: 2145
flesch: 68
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  xv, Herod., lib. i., c. cxxxi., etc. [48] Among innumerable instances of the disdain of human life contracted after their conquest by those very Persians who, in their mountain obscurity, would neither permit their sovereign to put any one to death for a single offence, nor the master of a household to exercise undue severity to a member of his family (Herod., lib. i., c. cxxxvii.), is one recorded by Herodotus, and in the main corroborated by Justin.


id: 6152
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
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words: 48472
sentence: 1883
flesch: 59
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  Lycurgus made machines and Solon men. Friends and allies, we acknowledge that we have erred; misled by deceiving oracles, we have banished from Athens men united to us by ancient hospitality.


id: 6151
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I
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words: 58803
sentence: 1888
flesch: 51
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  During this period there occurred--not rapidly, but slowly--the most important revolution of early Greece, viz., the spread of that tribe termed the Hellenes, who gradually established their predominance throughout the land, impressed indelible traces on the national character, and finally converted their own into the national name. [102], Syracuse, the mightiest of Grecian offspring, and the daughter of Corinth,--the African Cyrene,--not enumerating settlements more probably referable to a later date, attested the active spirit and extended navigation of early Greece.


id: 9061
author: Demosthenes
title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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words: 65191
sentence: 3204
flesch: 75
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  And yet observe what calamities the willingness to listen to such men lays up in store. And now, persecuted as they are, and insulted, and subjected to every kind of misery, the whole inhabited world has become filled with such men.


id: 4716
author: Davis, William Stearns
title: A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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flesch: 75
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  The gulf between old Athens and, for instance, new Chicago is greater than is readily supposed[*]. The streets are much wider and are quite straight,[+] crossing at right angles, unlike the crooked alleys of old Athens which seem nothing but built-up cow trails.


id: 9060
author: Demosthenes
title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1
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words: 83565
sentence: 2702
flesch: 65
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  'Certain men,' it will be said, 'went as ambassadors to Philip yonder--Philocrates, Aeschines, Phrynon, and Demosthenes; and, what happened? Moreover, her position in the Thermaic region was threatened first by Olynthus, at the head of the Chalcidic League, which included over thirty towns; and secondly by Philip, the newly-established King of Macedonia, who seemed likely to displace both Olynthus and Athens from their positions of commanding influence.[1] Nevertheless, Athens, though unable to face a strong combination, was probably the most powerful single state in Greece.


id: 41471
author: Church, Alfred John
title: Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens
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flesch: 82
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  They were chiefs; they were good men. 'It is true also that many young men hearing me thus questioning others have found delight in this employment and have learnt to imitate me.


id: 8688
author: Aristophanes
title: The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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sentence: 7747
flesch: 86
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summary:
  The drama takes its title from the Chorus, composed of old men of Acharnae. As for me, I will explain the matter to you all, children, youths, grown-ups and old men, aye, even to the decrepit dotards.


id: 8689
author: Aristophanes
title: The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
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sentence: 9513
flesch: 87
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  The drama, as was very often the case, takes its title from the Chorus--a band of old men dressed up as wasps, who acrimonious, stinging, exasperated temper is meant to typify the character fostered among Athenian citizens by excessive addiction to forensic business. Why, this class of old men, if irritated, becomes as terrible as a swarm of wasps.


