It's the ottava rima in which all of the great Italian romance epics by poets -- favorite poets of Milton's like Ariosto and Tasso -- had been written.

这是弥尔顿所钟爱的所有伟大的意大利浪漫诗人,例如阿里奥斯多和塔索,曾经用过的体裁。

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And tradition identifies this as the site of Sodom and Gomorrah.

传说认为这里是索多玛城和蛾摩拉城旧址。

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The existence of that play shows to all of us just how seriously Socrates was taken by the greatest of his contemporaries and Aristophanes was along with Sophocles and Euripides and others among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.

这剧本的存在让我们所有人了解到,当代大师有多看重苏格拉底,包括亚里斯多芬尼斯,还有索夫克里斯,尤里庇狄思等大家,及其它伟大的希腊剧作家。

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