THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY T. E. PAGE, UTT.D. E. CAl'PS, PH.D., IJ..D. W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.o. ARISTOPHANES I / 2n T AEISTOPHANES WITH THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BENJAMIN BICKLEY ROGERS M.A., D.LITT., BARRISTER-AT-LAW SOMETIME FELLOW OF WADKAM COLLEGE, OXtOBD IN THREE VOLUMES I THE ACHARNIANS THE KNIGHTS THE CLOUDS THE WASPS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD : NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MCMXXX FirstPrinted1924 Reprinted1926, 1930 PR V.I PrintedinGreatBritain PREFACE Bv the assistance of Messrs. G. Bell & Sons the Editors are enabled to include in the Library the famous version of Aristophanes made by Dr. Rogers. His complete edition with its full Introductions, Notes, and Appendices, will remain indispensable to large libraries and scholars, but it is hoped that the present edition will make his work moreaccess- ible to the general reader. Introductions and explanatory notes have been added by the Editors. These for the most part contain only information which can readily be found elsewhere, but in cases where it seemed wise to give Dr. Rogers' exact view of a passage, short extracts from his notes are given in his own words.