The Clouds (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Aristophanes

THE CLOUDS

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Aristophanes
Translated by William James Hickie

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The Clouds

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Aristophanes
Translated by William James Hickie
PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the
College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.....................................................................................................3

THE CLOUDS...................................................................................................................5

GLOSSARY.....................................................................................................................77

Aristophanes 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently
assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of The Clouds by Aristophanes was edited for students who are actively building their
vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®,
LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic
words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not
already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it
has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the
book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.

Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-online-
dictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected]

The Editor
Webster’s Online Dictionary
www.websters-online-dictionary.org
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Aristophanes 3
DRAMATIS %PERSONAE

Strepsiades
Phidippides
Servant of Strepsiades
Disciples of Socrates
Socrates
Chorus of Clouds
Just Cause
Unjust Cause
Pasias
Amynias
Witness
Chaerephon

Aristophanes 5

THE CLOUDS

SCENE—The interior of a sleeping-apartment: STREPSIADES,
PHIDIPPIDES, and two servants are in their beds; a small house is seen at a
distance. Time: midnight.%

STREPSIADES.
[sitting up in his bed]. Ah me! Ah me! O King Jupiter, of what a terrible
length the nights are! Will it never be day? And yet long since I heard the
cock. My domestics are snoring; but they would not have done so heretofore!
May you perish then, O war! For many reasons; because I may not even
punish my domestics. Neither does this excellent youth awake through the
night; but takes his ease, wrapped up in five blankets. Well, if it is the
fashion, let us snore wrapped up.
[Lies down, and then almost immediately starts up again.]
But I am not able, miserable man, to sleep, being tormented by my expenses,
and my stud of horses, and my debts, through this son of mine. He with his
long hair, is riding horses and driving curricles, and dreaming of horses;
while I am driven to distraction, as I see the moon bringing on the
twentieths; for the interest is running on. Boy! Light a lamp, and bring forth
my tablets, that I may take them and read to how many I am indebted, and
calculate the interest.

Thesaurus
distraction: (adj, n) desperation, indebted: (adj) grateful, appreciative, snoring: (n) stertor, respiration; (adj)
raving; (n) beguilement, pastime, thankful, obliged, liable, insolvent, stertorous, asleep.
diversion, confusion, entertainment, broke; (prep) beholden, debted; (n) stud: (n, v) knob, boss, button; (v) dot,
disturbance, daze, recreation; (adj) debtor; (v) owe. ANTONYM: (adj) nail, sprinkle, constellate; (n) rivet,
madness. ANTONYMS: (n) ungrateful. scantling, peg, stallion.
fascination, attentiveness, attention, perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, tablets: (n) pills, medicine, medication,
noninterference, calmness, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, drug.
concentration. ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) tormented: (adj) worried, tortured,
heretofore: (adv) formerly, as yet, survive, live, appear. hagridden, troubled, beleaguered,
before, so far, yet, already, until now, snore: (n) snoring; (v) snort, saw logs, beset, besieged, cruciate, cruciform,
previously, once, hereunto; (adv, n) snooze, siesta, hibernation, breathe, distraught, distressed. ANTONYM:
hitherto. doze, saw wood, coma, dream. (adj) calm.