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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 1
  • Parabasis 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Parabasis 3
  • Episode 2
  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Peace (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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    Oiketês A
    air' aire mazan hôs tachista kantharôi.
    Oiketês B
    idou. dos autôi, tôi kakist' apoloumenôi
    kai mêpot' autês mazan hêdiô phagoi.
    Oiketês A
    dos mazan heteran, ex onidôn peplasmenên.
    Oiketês B
    5
    idou mal' auphis. pou gar hên nun dê 'pheres;
    katephagen;
    Oiketês A
    ou ma ton Di all' exarpasas
    holên enekapse perikulisas toin podoin.
    all' hôs tachista tribe pollas kai puknas.
    Oiketês B
    andres koprologoi proslabesthe pros theôn,
    10
    ei mê me boulesth' apopnigenta periidein.
    Oiketês A
    heteran heteran dos, paidos hêtairêkotos:
    tetrimmenês gar phêsin epithumein.
    Oiketês B
    idou.
    henos men ôndres apolelusthai moi dokô:
    oudeis gar an phaiê me mattont' esthiein.
    Oiketês A
    15
    aiboi, pher' allên chateran moi chateran,
    kai trib' heteras.
    Oiketês B
    ma ton Apollô 'gô men ou:
    ou gar eth' oios t' eim' huperechein tês antlias.
    Oiketês A
    autên ar' oisô sullabôn tên antlian.
    Oiketês B
    nê ton Di' es korakas ge kai sauton ge pros.
    20
    humôn de g' ei tis oid' emoi kateipatô,
    pothen an priaimên rhina mê tetrêmenên.
    ouden gar ergon ên ar' athliôteron
    ê kantharôi mattonta parechein esthiein.
    hus men gar, hôsper an chesêi tis, ê kuôn
    25
    phaulôs ereidei: touto d' hupo phronêmatos
    brenthuetai te kai phagein ouk axioi,
    ên mê parathô tripsas di' hêmeras holês
    hôsper gunaiki gongulên memagmenên.
    all' ei pepautai tês edôdês skepsomai
    30
    têidi paroixas tês thuras, hina mê m' idêi.
    ereide, mê pausaio mêdepot' esthiôn+
    teôs heôs sauton lathois diarrageis.
    hoion de kupsas ho kataratos esthiei,
    hôsper palaistês, parabalôn tous gomphious,
    35
    kai tauta tên kephalên te kai tô cheire pôs
    hôdi periagôn, hôsper hoi ta schoinia
    ta pachea sumballontes es tas holkadas.
    miaron to chrêma kai kakosmon kai boron:
    chôtou pot' esti daimonôn hê prosbolê
    40
    ouk oid'. Aphroditês men gar ou moi phainetai,
    ou mên Charitôn ge.
    Oiketês A
    tou gar est';
    Oiketês B
    ouk esth' hopôs
    tout' esti to teras ou Dios kataibatou.
    Oiketês A
    oukoun an êdê tôn theatôn tis legoi
    neanias dokêsisophos, ‘to de pragma ti;
    45
    ho kantharos de pros ti; ’ kait' autôi g' anêr
    Iônikos tis phêsi parakathêmenos:
    ‘dokeô men, es Kleôna tout' ainissetai,
    hôs keinos anaideôs tên spatilên esthiei.’
    Oiketês B
    all' eisiôn tôi kantharôi dôsô piein.

    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    416 [Fortsetzung.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [201-595]
    * [201-595]

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

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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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