Frogs

• Jokes in the prologue: “I’ve such a load that if i cant relieve my pain, I’ll fart it all away”
• Dionysus complains while rowing: “my bum is wet and I’m about to poo”
• Dionysus is scared by Aecus: ”i've made a craprifice” “yes: it was frightened and crept down into my bowels”
• Dionysus’ reaction to the chorus of initiates talking about a girl: “i start buffing my chick-pea”
• Dionysus after being beaten: “all those blows have ballooned my bladder”
• after boat, Dionysus asks about the inhabitants of Hades, Xanthias references the audience:  “father-killers and oath breakers”
• Dionysus calls out to the priest: “priest, save me- I’ll get you a drink after the show”
• • dionysus misquotes Euripides: “the airy apartment of Zeus or the foot of time” “a mind that refuses to swear an oath, but a tongue that’s sworn already, never mind the mind”
• dionysus blames his soiled tunic on the gods (Peripeteia): “whence came this dreadful calamity ? Which god should i blame for my undoing”
• Cleithenes, mourning joke: “Cleithenes’ arsehole is plucking out its hair and tearing its cheeks”
• debating how to knock on a door: “how should i knock on the door?… How do locals knock here?”
• dionysus asks Xanthias what to do after boat ride: “ok, what do we do now?”
• dionysus hiding behind Xanthias: “get behind me now!” “Quick. Get in front!”
• Dionysus as a coward: “please, my dear chap. Don’t expect me to do anything”
• Dionysus scared by Aeacus: “I’ve made a craprifice” “it (his heart) was frightened and crept down to my bowels” “you are the most cowardly of all the gods- and men”
• not scared of Aeacus: “it didn't bother me”
• Swapping costumes: swap places with me. Take this club and lionskin… in return. I’ll be your porter” “not Heracles by Xanthacles”
• swapping costumes 2nd time: “may i die most horribly if i dont love you Xanthias”
• Xanthias wants help from the gods: “i need a witness in appeal to the gods!”
• Xanthias offering Dionysus up to take his punishment: “take my slave here and torture him” 
• Dionysus uses his immortal status to try get out of torture: “dont torture me. I’m a god. If you don't listen, you’ll only have yourself to blame” 
• Aeacus cant decide which is the god: “i cant find out yet which of you is the god” 
• References to Cleon in the underworld: “go all the man Cleon, he’ll protect us” “I’m going to get Cleon” 
• Reference to Cleophon in parabasis: “keener to win than cleophon” 
• Parabasis about Arginusae: “i say their slip should be overlooked” “our city’s fate depends on the sea” “change your ways and go for gold again” 
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  Parabasis on removing corruption in Athens: “cleigenes” “master-mixers” 
• Slave talk: “every time i curse my master behind his back, i feel like I’m in heaven” “listening to everything your master says?” “Passing on the gossip to outsider?”
• Chorus anticipating the contest: “there will be strife” “we long to hear from these wise men” 
• Euripides’ rejection of traditional gods: “air, which sustains me, hinge of my tongue, native wit”
• Euripides includes everyone in his plays: “slaves and women, young and old would speak just as much as their masters” 
• Euripides taught people to question their superiors: “encourage the crew of the Paramus to answer back to their superiors” 
• Question of Alcibiades: “it longs for him. it detests him. But it wants to keep him.” “Good at helping himself, but not at helping the city” “one shouldn’t raise a lion cub in the city. But once its grown, you’d better treat it well”
• Dionysus confused about advice: “what? I don’t understand.” 
• Chorus desire peace for Athens: “may our great troubles. Our destructive use of arms. End completely” 
• Poets‘ job is to give advice: “children have teachers to instruct them, young men have poets“