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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Parodos 2
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Lyric-scene 3
  • Parabasis 1
  • Episode 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 2
  • Lyric-scene 4
  • Episode 3
  • Choral 2
  • Lyric-scene 5
  • Episode 4
  • Episode 5
  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Jeffrey Henderson) | English
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    Dikaiopolis
    hosa dê dedêgmai tên emautou kardian,
    hêsthên de baia, panu de baia, tettara:
    ha d' ôdunêthên, psammakosiogargara.
    pher' idô, ti d' hêsthên axion chairêdonos;
    5
    egôid' eph' hôi ge to kear êuphranthên idôn,
    tois pente talantois hois Kleôn exêmesen.
    tauth' hôs eganôthên, kai philô tous hippeas
    dia touto tourgon: axion gar Helladi+.
    all' ôdunêthên heteron au tragôidikon,
    10
    hote dê 'kechênê prosdokôn+ ton Aischulon+,
    ho d' aneipen, eisag' ô Theogni ton choron.
    pôs tout'+ eseise mou dokeis tên kardian;
    all' heteron hêsthên, hênik' epi Moschôi pote
    Dexitheos eisêlth' aisomenos Boiôtion.
    15
    têtes d' apethanon kai diestraphên idôn,
    hote dê parekupse Chairis epi ton orthion.
    all' oudepôpot' ex hotou 'gô rhuptomai
    houtôs edêchthên hupo konias tas ophrus
    hôs nun, hopot' ousês kurias ekklêsias
    20
    heôthinês erêmos hê pnux hautêi,
    hoi d' en agorai lalousi kanô kai katô
    to schoinion pheugousi to memiltômenon.
    oud' hoi prutaneis hêkousin, all' aôrian
    hêkontes    +, eita d' ôstiountai pôs dokeis+
    25
    elthontes allêloisi peri prôtou xulou,
    hathrooi katarreontes: eirênê d' hopôs
    estai protimôs' ouden: ô polis polis.
    egô d' aei prôtistos eis ekklêsian
    nostôn kathêmai: kait' epeidan ô monos,
    30
    stenô kechêna skordinômai perdomai,
    aporô graphô paratillomai logizomai,
    apoblepôn es ton agron eirênês erôn,
    stugôn men astu ton d' emon dêmon pothôn,
    hos oudepôpot' eipen, anthrakas priô,
    35
    ouk oxos ouk elaion, oud' êidei “priô,”
    all' autos ephere panta chô priôn apên.
    nun oun atechnôs hêkô pareskeuasmenos
    boan hupokrouein loidorein tous rhêtoras,
    ean tis allo plên peri eirênês legêi.
    40
    all' hoi prutaneis gar houtoii mesêmbrinoi+.
    ouk êgoreuon+; tout' ekein'+ hougô+ 'legon+:
    es tên proedrian pas anêr ôstizetai.

    There are a total of 26 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
    sophocles-3 [Surviving Works]
    aeschylus-4 [Importance and Influence of Aeschylus]

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    1260 [THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    629

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [117-253: Parodos]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    161 [Dorische Mundart.)]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    352 [Ellipse des Subjekts.]
    410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]
    425 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Instrumentalis.]
    467 [b) Die Demonstrativpronomen hode, houtos, ekeinos.)]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    548 [a) Vertauschung der Sätze. — b) Verkärzung der Nebensätze. — c) Parenthese.]
    548 [a) Vertauschung der Sätze. — b) Verkärzung der Nebensätze. — c) Parenthese.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [974-1184]
    *

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1-134]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    anthrax [Anthrax]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    282 [hopôs and hopôs mê with the Independent Future Indicative, etc.]
    339 [ Object Clauses with hopôs and hopôs mê after Verbs of Striving, etc.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    5, 86 [In Dependent Clauses:]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Aristophanes. Aristophanes Comoediae, ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 2. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.
    OCLC: 10582150


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