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

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.)
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    Dêmosthenês
    iattataiax tôn kakôn, iattatai.
    kakôs Paphlagona ton neônêton kakon
    autaisi boulais apoleseian hoi theoi.
    ex hou gar eisêrrêsen es tên oikian
    5
    plêgas aei prostribetai tois oiketais.
    Nikias
    kakista dêth' houtos ge prôtos Paphlagonôn
    autais diabolais.
    Dêmosthenês
    ô kakodaimon pôs echeis;
    Nikias
    kakôs kathaper su.
    Dêmosthenês
    deuro dê proselth', hina
    xunaulian klausômen Oulumpou nomon.
    Dêmosthenês kai Nikias
    10
    mumu mumu mumu mumu mumu mumu.
    Dêmosthenês
    ti kinurometh' allôs; ouk echrên zêtein tina
    sôtêrian nôin, alla mê klaein eti;
    Nikias
    tis oun++ genoit' an;
    Dêmosthenês
    lege++++ su.
    Nikias
    su men oun moi lege,
    hina mê machômai.
    Dêmosthenês
    ma ton Apollô 'gô men ou.
    Nikias
    pôs an su moi lexeias hame chrê legein;
    Dêmosthenês
    15
    all' eipe tharrôn, eita kagô soi phrasô.
    Nikias
    all' ouk eni moi to thrette. pôs an oun pote
    eipoim' an auto dêta kompseuripikôs;
    Dêmosthenês
    mê 'moi ge, mê 'moi, mê diaskandikisêis:
    20
    all' heure tin' apokinon apo tou despotou.
    Nikias
    lege dê molômen+ xuneches hôdi xullabôn.
    Dêmosthenês
    kai dê legô molômen.
    Nikias
    exopisthe nun
    auto phathi tou molômen.
    Dêmosthenês
    auto.
    Nikias
    panu kalôs.
    hôsper dephomenos nun atrema prôton lege
    25
    to molômen, eita d' auto, kait' epagôn puknon.
    Dêmosthenês
    molômen auto molômen automolômen.
    Nikias
    ên
    ouch hêdu;
    Dêmosthenês
    nê Dia: plên ge peri tôi dermati
    dedoika toutoni ton oiônon.
    Nikias
    ti dai;
    Dêmosthenês
    hotiê to derma dephomenôn aperchetai.
    Nikias
    30
    kratista+ toinun tôn parontôn esti nôin,
    theôn ionte prospesein tou pros bretas.
    Dêmosthenês
    † poion bretas †; eteon hêgei gar theous;
    Nikias
    egôge.
    Dêmosthenês
    poiôi chrômenos tekmêriôi;
    Nikias
    hotiê theoisin echthros eim'. ouk eikotôs;
    Dêmosthenês
    35
    eu prosbibazeis m'. all' heterai pêi skepteon.
    boulei to pragma tois theataisin phrasô;
    Nikias
    ou cheiron: hen d' autous paraitêsômetha,
    epidêlon hêmin tois prosôpoisin poiein,
    ên tois epesi chairôsi kai tois pragmasin.

    There are a total of 13 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2901 [men]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    1123

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    394 [b. Gebrauch des Konjunktivs.]
    398 [Bemerkungen über die Modaladverbien an und ken.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    540 [Komparatives ê, als.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [376-581]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [516-1057]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [865-1080]

    Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
    * [HYMN TO HERMES]

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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. 1. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.
    OCLC: 10582150


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