Chapter 5 of The Acharnians is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Acharnians is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you? HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers. DICAEOPOLIS How? HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border. DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
Chapter 5 of The Acharnians is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.”
a line that indicates a boundary
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.”
a fortified defensive structure
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.”
a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.”
a tribe of ancient Athenians
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.”
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.”
plural of “steer” — an indication of potential opportunity
From this reading “HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.”
performs some wicked deed
From this reading “DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?”
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From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
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From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
a line that indicates a boundary
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
a fortified defensive structure
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
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From this reading DICAEOPOLIS How?
a person who operates a farm
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
a tribe of ancient Athenians
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
past form of “seize” — take hold of; grab
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
plural of “steer” — an indication of potential opportunity
From this reading HUSBANDMAN I am ruined; I have lost a pair of steers.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading HUSBANDMAN The Boeotians seized them at Phyle.(1) f(1) A deme and frontier fortress of Attica, near the Boeotian border.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
a Caucasian
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
performs some wicked deed
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
but in spite of that
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS Ah! poor wretch! and yet you have not left off white?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading DICAEOPOLIS What has happened to you?
Chapter 5 of The Acharnians by 447? BCE-386? BCE Aristophanes holds 170 sentences, grouped into 34 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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