Aristophanes, Wasps (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart)

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Sôsias
*houtos⁺ ti pascheis⁺ ô kakodaimon Xanthia;
Xanthias
phulakên kataluein nukterinên didaskomai.
Sôsias
kakon ara tais pleurais ti proupheileis mega⁺.
ar' oistha g' hoion knôdalon phulattomen;
Xanthias

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oid', all' epithumô smikron apomermêrisai.
Sôsias
su d' oun parakinduneu', epei kautou g' emou
kata toin korain hupnou ti katacheitai gluku.
Xanthias
all' ê paraphroneis eteon ê korubantiais;
Sôsias
ouk, all' hupnos m' echei tis ek Sabaziou.
Xanthias

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ton auton ar' emoi boukoleis Sabazion.
kamoi gar artiôs epestrateusato
Mêdos tis epi ta blephara nustaktês hupnos:
kai dêt' onar thaumaston eidon artiôs.
Sôsias
kagôg' alêthôs hoion oudepôpote.

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atar su lexon proteros.
Xanthias
edokoun aieton
kataptomenon es tên agoran megan panu
anarpasanta tois onuxin aspida
pherein epichalkon anekas es ton ouranon⁺,
kapeita tautên apobalein Kleônumon.
Sôsias

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ouden ara griphou diapherei Kleônumos.
Xanthias
pôs dê;
Sôsias
proserei tis toisi sumpotais, legôn
‘ti tauton en gêi t' apebalen kan ouranôi
kan têi thalattêi thêrion tên aspida;’
Xanthias
oimoi ti dêta moi kakon genêsetai

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idonti toiouton enupnion;
Sôsias
mê phrontisêis.
ouden gar estai deinon ou ma tous theous.
Xanthias
deinon ge poust' anthrôpos apobalôn hopla.
atar su to son au lexon.
Sôsias
all' estin mega.
peri tês poleôs gar esti tou skaphous holou.
Xanthias

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lege nun anusas ti tên tropin tou pragmatos.
Sôsias
edoxe moi peri prôton hupnon en têi pukni
ekklêsiazein probata sunkathêmena,
baktêrias echonta kai tribônia:
kapeita toutois tois probatoisi moudokei

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dêmêgorein phalaina pandokeutria,
echousa phônên empeprêsmenês huos.
Xanthias
aiboi.
Sôsias
ti esti;
Xanthias
paue paue, mê lege:
ozei kakiston tounupnion bursês sapras.
Sôsias
eith' hê miara phalain' echousa trutanên

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histê boeion dêmon.
Xanthias
oimoi deilaios:
ton dêmon hêmôn bouletai diistanai.
Sôsias
edokei de moi Theôros autês plêsion
chamai kathêsthai tên kephalên korakos echôn.
eit' Alkibiadês eipe pros me traulisas,

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“holais; Theôlos tên kephalên kolakos echei.”
Xanthias
orthôs ge tout' Alkibiadês etraulisen.
Sôsias
oukoun ekein' allokoton, ho Theôros korax
gignomenos;
Xanthias
hêkist', all' ariston.
Sôsias
pôs;
Xanthias
hopôs;
anthrôpos ôn eit' egenet' exaiphnês korax:

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oukoun enarges touto sumbalein, hoti
artheis aph' hêmôn es korakas oichêsetai;
Sôsias
eit' ouk egô dous du' obolô misthôsomai
houtôs hupokrinomenon sophôs oneirata;

Cross references from Plutarch, Lives (ed. Bernadotte Perrin):
Alc., 1, 4 [Xanthias]: SosiasThen Alcibiades said to me with a lisp, said he,Cwemahk Theocwus? What a cwaven's head he has!XanthiasThat lisp of Alcibiades hit the mark for once!"

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
1288 [VOCATIVE]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
51 [B. Sogenannte Krasis.]
75 [Bemerkungen über die Quantität in der Dichtersprache.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
356 [Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des Nominativs.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
486 [Nähere Bestimmung des Gebrauches des bezüglichen und des absoluten Partizips (des Participii coniuncti und der Genetivi absoluti).]
509 [Ge (dor., böot., elisch ga)).]
507 [Konfirmatives oun [Lesb., böot., dor. u. neuion. ôn]).]

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