Aristophanes
noun
448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Aristophanic
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a word derived from
Aristophanes.
Example Sentences
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The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound made by bubbles rising.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Picasso's immense facility and control of gesture is still there; the wit, the Aristophanic irony, the ebullience and the capacity to fix an image remain.
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And besides the Aristophanic comedy, Gryll Grange contains some of Peacock's most delightful verse, notably the really exquisite stanzas on "Love and Age."
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
