Excerpt from The Acharnians of Aristophanes: Translated Into English VerseThe Acharnians are well chosen to represent the most bitter zealots of the war. Their fertile and populous suburb, which lay about eight miles from Athens, was desolated year after year by the invasions of Sparta, and their military character is evidenced by the fact that at the commence ment of the war they furnished a tenth of the whole regular infantry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.