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χῶρος δ’ ὅδ’ ἱερός, ὡς ἀπεικάσαι, βρύων
δάφνης, ἐλαίας, ἀμπέλου·
This place is holy, at a guess, full of olives, laurel and vines.
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 16-17 (111)
γένος δὲ τοὐμὸν ὡς ἔχει πεύσῃ τάχα.
My child, you will soon find out what is going on,
Aeschylus Eumenides 454 (123)
καὶ οὕτως ἤδη συνειθισμένον ἦν, ὥστε πολλάκις ἡ γυνὴ ἀπῄει κάτω καθευδήσουσα ὡς τὸ παιδίον, ἵνα τὸν τιτθὸν αὐτῷ διδῷ καὶ μὴ βοᾷ.
And we were so used to this arrangement that my wife often went downstairs to sleep with the child, to breastfeed it and stop it crying.
Lysias Speeches 1.10 (151)
εἰ γάρ,” ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, “ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοί, ἐν τούτῳ εἴη· ὡς οὔτ᾽ ἂν τῶν ἐμῶν ἐπιλίποιμι οὐδὲν οὔτε τῶν φίλων·
"If only that were the case, by Zeus and all the gods", I said, "as then I would not leave a single penny of my own money or my friends' money untouched!"
Plato Protagoras 310d (271)
καταλύει δ᾽, ὡς ἐγὼ ἤκουσα, παρὰ Καλλίᾳ τῷ Ἱππονίκου·
He's staying with Kallias son of Hipponicus, so I've heard.
Plato Protagoras 310d (272)
καὶ γὰρ τὰ πολλὰ Πρωταγόρας ἔνδον διατρίβει, ὥστε, θάρρει, καταληψόμεθα αὐτόν, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, ἔνδον.”
For the most part Protagoras spends his time inside, so don't worry, we'll find him in, in all likelihood
Plato Protagoras 310d (273)
“εἰπέ μοι”, ἔφην ἐγώ, “ὦ Ἱππόκρατες, παρὰ Πρωταγόραν νῦν ἐπιχειρεῖς ἰέναι, ἀργύριον τελῶν ἐκείνῳ μισθὸν ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ, ὡς παρὰ τίνα ἀφιξόμενος καὶ τίς γενησόμενος;
"Tell me, Hippocrates," I said, "who is it that you are going to see and who is it that you want to become as you are now going to see Protagoras?"
Plato Protagoras 310d (274)
ἡγοῦμαι δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες, τοῦτό με δεῖν ἐπιδεῖξαι, ὡς ἐμοίχευεν Ἐρατοσθένης τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν ἐμὴν
But I take it, sirs, that what I have to show is that Eratosthenes had an intrigue with my wife
Lysias Speeches 1.4 (367)

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