The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state, the older Roman Empire.

神圣罗马帝国，是马奇亚维利那年代的称号，那是古罗马国的继承者，即较古老的罗马帝国。

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The allusion to Aristophanes and the comic poet is a part of what Plato calls in Book X of the Republic the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry.

提及亚里斯多芬尼斯,是柏拉图《理想国》第10卷中所述,哲学与诗学长时争论的一部份,这项争论亦是柏拉图辩证的主体。

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