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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Episode 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 2
  • Choral 2
  • Episode 3
  • Parabasis 1
  • Episode 4
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Lyric-scene 3
  • Choral 3
  • Episode 5
  • Exodus 1
  • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (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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    Mnêsilochos
    ô Zeu chelidôn ara pote phanêsetai;
    apolei m' aloôn hanthrôpos ex heôthinou.
    hoion te, prin ton splêna komidêi m' ekbalein,
    para sou puphesthai poi m' ageis ôuripidê;
    Euripidês
    5
    all' ouk akouein dei se panth' hos' autika
    opsei parestôs.
    Mnêsilochos
    pôs legeis; authis phrason.
    ou dei m' akouein;
    Euripidês
    ouch ha g' an mellêis horan.
    Mnêsilochos
    oud' ar' horan dei m';
    Euripidês
    ouch ha g' an akouein deêi.
    Mnêsilochos
    pôs moi paraineis; dexiôs mentoi legeis.
    10
    ou phêis su chrênai m' out' akouein outh' horan;
    Euripidês
    chôris gar autoin hekaterou 'stin phusis.
    Mnêsilochos
    tou mêt' akouein mêth' horan;
    Euripidês
    eu isth' hoti.
    Mnêsilochos
    pôs chôris;
    Euripidês
    houtô tauta diekrithê tote.
    aithêr gar hote ta prôta diechôrizeto
    15
    kai zôi' en hautôi xuneteknou kinoumena,
    hôi men blepein chrê prôt' emêchanêsato
    ophthalmon antimimon hêliou trochôi,
    akoêi de choanên ôta dietetrênato.
    Mnêsilochos
    dia tên choanên oun mêt' akouô mêth' horô;
    20
    ton Di' hêdomai ge touti prosmathôn.
    hoion ge pou 'stin hai sophai xunousiai.
    Euripidês
    poll' an mathois toiauta par' emou.
    Mnêsilochos
    pôs an oun
    pros tois agathois toutoisin+ exeuroim' hopôs
    eti prosmathoimi chôlos einai skelei;
    Euripidês
    25
    badize deuri kai proseche ton noun.
    Mnêsilochos
    idou.
    Euripidês
    horais to thurion touto;
    Mnêsilochos
    ton Hêraklea
    oimai ge.
    Euripidês
    siga nun.
    Mnêsilochos
    siôpô to thurion;
    Euripidês
    akou'.
    Mnêsilochos
    akouô kai siôpô to thurion;
    Euripidês
    entauth' Agathôn ho kleinos oikôn tunchanei
    30
    ho tragôidopoios.
    Mnêsilochos
    poios houtos Hagathôn;
    Euripidês
    estin tis Agathôn--
    Mnêsilochos
    môn ho melas ho karteros;
    Euripidês
    ouk, all' heteros tis: ouch heorakas pôpote;
    Mnêsilochos
    môn ho dasupôgôn;
    Euripidês
    ouch heorakas pôpote;
    Mnêsilochos
    ma ton Di' outoi g' hôste kai me g' eidenai.
    Euripidês
    35
    kai mên bebinêkas su g', all' ouk oisth' isôs.
    all' ekpodôn ptêxômen, hôs exerchetai
    therapôn tis autou pur echôn kai murrinas:
    prothusomenos eoike tês poiêseôs.
    Therapôn
    euphêmos pas estô laos,
    40
    stoma sunklêisas: epidêmei gar
    thiasos Mousôn endon melathrôn
    tôn desposunôn melopoiôn.
    echetô de pnoas nênemos aithêr,
    kuma de pontou keladeitô
    45
    glaukon:
    Mnêsilochos
    bombax.
    Euripidês
    siga.
    Mnêsilochos
    ti legei;
    Therapôn
    ptênôn te genê katakoimasthô,
    thêrôn t' agriôn podes hulodromôn
    luesthôn.
    Mnêsilochos
    bombalobombax.
    Therapôn
    mellei gar ho kalliepês Agathôn
    50
    promos hêmeteros--
    Mnêsilochos
    môn bineisthai;
    Therapôn
    tis ho phônêsas;
    Mnêsilochos
    nênemos aithêr.


    There are a total of 9 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    161 [Dorische Mundart.)]
    161 [Dorische Mundart.)]
    123 [III. Stämme, welche auf den Spiranten s ausgehen.]
    6 [b) Diphthonge.]
    51 [B. Sogenannte Krasis.]
    52 [C. Synizesis.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    405 [a) Substantive statt Adjektive in attributiver Beziehung.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [141-496]


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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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