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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 1
  • Parabasis 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Agon 1
  • Episode 2
  • Parabasis 3
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Choral 2
  • Episode 3
  • Agon 2
  • Episode 4
  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Clouds (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 (ed. William James Hickie)
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    Strepsiadês
    iou iou:
    ô Zeu basileu to chrêma tôn nuktôn+ hoson+:
    aperanton. oudepoth' hêmera genêsetai;
    kai mên palai g' alektruonos êkous' egô:
    5
    hoi d' oiketai++ rhenkousin++: all'++ ouk an pro tou+.
    apoloio dêt' ô poleme pollôn houneka,
    hot' oude kolas' exesti moi tous oiketas.
    all' oud' ho chrêstos houtosi neanias
    egeiretai tês nuktos, alla perdetai
    10
    en pente sisurais enkekordulêmenos.
    all' ei dokei rhenkômen enkekalummenoi.
    all' ou dunamai deilaios heudein daknomenos
    hupo tês dapanês kai tês phatnês kai tôn chreôn
    dia toutoni ton huion. ho de komên echôn
    15
    hippazetai te kai xunôrikeuetai
    oneiropolei th' hippous: egô d' apollumai
    horôn agousan tên selênên eikadas:
    hoi gar tokoi chôrousin. hapte pai luchnon,
    kakphere to grammateion, hin' anagnô labôn
    20
    hoposois opheilô kai logisômai tous tokous.
    pher' idô ti opheilô+; dôdeka mnas Pasiai.
    tou dôdeka mnas Pasiai; ti echrêsamên;
    hot' epriamên ton koppatian. oimoi talas,
    eith'+ exekopên+ proteron+ ton ophthalmon+ lithôi+.

    There are a total of 18 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    141 [Defectiva.]
    48 [Von dem Hiatus bei den übrigen Dichtern.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    349b [Bemerkungen über die Komparation der Adjektive, Adverbien und Verben.]
    378 [C. Passivform.)]
    410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    6, 35, 1 [BOOK VI]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    12, 286 [Book 12 (m)]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    5, 84 [esti and eisi:]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown:
    320

    Cross references from J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras:
    XI, 322A [CHAPTER XI]
    II, 310D [CHAPTER II]

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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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