Excerpt from The Frogs: With Introduction and Notes But the play has its political side, as well as its literary aim. Wise counsels are ever and anon suggested. The people are warned against the empty-headed, arrogant, demagogues, who will not hear of peace being made and against the traitorous oligarchs, whose sole policy is one of selfishness. The poet proposes a sort of general amnesty: a return to mutual confidence, a generous, forgiving spirit, not 'extreme to mark what is doneamiss.' The only h0pe of Athens lies in the employment of fillose good and worthy citizens, who are now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.