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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Episode 1
  • Agon 1
  • Episode 2
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 3
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Choral 2
  • Choral 3
  • Lyric-scene 3
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    Aristophanes, Lysistrata (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. Jack Lindsay)
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    Lusistratê
    all' ei tis es Bakcheion autas ekalesen,
    ê 's Panos ê 'pi Kôliad' ê 's Genetullidos,
    oud' an dielthein ên an hupo tôn tumpanôn.
    nun d' oudemia parestin entauthoi gunê:
    5
    plên hê g' emê kômêtis hêd' exerchetai.
    chair' ô Kalonikê.
    Kalonikê
    kai su g' ô Lusistratê.
    ti suntetaraxai; mê skuthrôpaz' ô teknon.
    ou gar prepei soi toxopoiein tas ophrus.
    Lusistratê
    all' ô Kalonikê kaomai tên kardian,
    10
    kai poll' huper hêmôn+ tôn gunaikôn achthomai,
    hotiê para men tois andrasin nenomismetha
    einai panourgoi--
    Kalonikê
    kai gar esmen nê Dia.
    Lusistratê
    eirêmenon+ d' autais+ apantan+ enthade
    bouleusomenaisin ou peri+ phaulou pragmatos,
    15
    heudousi kouch+ hêkousin+.
    Kalonikê
    all' ô philtatê
    hêxousi: chalepê toi gunaikôn exodos+.
    hê men gar hêmôn peri ton andr'+ ekuptasen+,
    hê d' oiketên+ êgeiren+, hê de paidion+
    kateklinen+, hê d' elousen+, hê d' epsômisen+.
    Lusistratê
    20
    all' hetera tar' ên tônde prourgiaitera
    autais.
    Kalonikê
    ti d' estin ô philê Lusistratê,
    eph' ho ti poth' hêmas tas gunaikas sunkaleis;
    ti to pragma; pêlikon ti;
    Lusistratê
    mega.
    Kalonikê
    môn kai pachu;
    Lusistratê
    kai nê Dia pachu.
    Kalonikê
    kaita pôs ouch hêkomen;
    Lusistratê
    25
    ouch houtos ho tropos: tachu gar an xunêlthomen.
    all' estin hup' emou pragm' anezêtêmenon
    pollaisi t' agrupniaisin erriptasmenon.
    Kalonikê
    ê pou ti lepton esti tourriptasmenon.
    Lusistratê
    houtô ge lepton hôsth' holês tês Hellados+
    30
    en tais gunaixin estin hê sôtêria.
    Kalonikê
    en tais gunaixin; ep' oligou g' ôcheit' ara.
    Lusistratê
    hôs est' en hêmin tês poleôs ta pragmata,
    ê mêket' einai mête Peloponnêsious--
    Kalonikê
    beltista toinun mêket' einai nê Dia.
    Lusistratê
    35
    Boiôtious te pantas exolôlenai.
    Kalonikê
    mê dêta pantas g', all' aphele tas encheleis.
    Lusistratê
    peri tôn Athênôn d' ouk epiglôttêsomai
    toiouton ouden: all' huponoêson su moi.
    ên de xunelthôs' hai gunaikes enthade
    40
    hai t' ek Boiôtôn hai te Peloponnêsiôn
    hêmeis te, koinêi sôsomen tên Hellada.
    Kalonikê
    ti d' an gunaikes phronimon ergasaiato
    ê lampron, hai kathêmeth' exênthismenai,
    krokôtophorousai kai kekallôpismenai
    45
    kai Kimmerik' orthostadia kai peribaridas;

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

    Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
    2, 8, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]

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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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