describes "three unclean spirits like frogs" (pneumata tria akatharta hôs batrachoi); frogs are unclean as animals for food in the Jewish dietary code. The...
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ἀκάνθιον akánthion small thorn acanthus) βάθρακοι báthrakoi (Attic βάτραχοι bátrachoi, frogs) in Pontus babakoi βροῦκος broûkos species of locust (Attic akrís)...
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literature by Athenian playwrights. In Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs (Batrachoi, 405 BC), in which "the Eleusinian colouring is in fact so pervasive,"...
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his comedies: Βαρβίτιδες (Barbitides), Guitarists of Barbiton Βάτραχοι (Batrachoi), Frogs Γαλεομυομαχία (Galeomyomachia), Battle of Cats and Mice Διόνυσος...
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