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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Parabasis 1
  • Episode 1
  • Choral 1
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Agon 1
  • Choral 2
  • Lyric-scene 3
  • Episode 2
  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Frogs (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Matthew Dillon)
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    Xanthias
    Eipô ti tôn eiôthotôn+ ô despota,
    eph' hois aei gelôsin hoi theômenoi;
    Dionusos
    nê ton Di' ho ti Boulei ge, plên ‘piezomai,’
    touto de phulaxai: panu gar est' êdê cholê.
    Xanthias
    mêd' heteron asteion ti;
    Dionusos
    plên g' ‘hôs thlibomai.’
    Xanthias
    ti dai; to panu geloion eipô;
    Dionusos
    nê Dia
    tharrôn ge: monon ekein' hopôs mê 'reis,
    Xanthias
    to ti;
    Dionusos
    metaballomenos tanaphoron hoti ‘chezêtiais.’
    Xanthias
    mêd' hoti tosouton achthos ep' emautôi pherôn,
    10
    ei mê kathairêsei tis, apopardêsomai;
    Dionusos
    mê dêth', hiketeuô, plên g' hotan mellô 'xemein.
    Xanthias
    ti dêt' edei me tauta ta skeuê pherein,
    eiper poiêsô mêden hônper Phrunichos
    eiôthe poiein kai Lukis kameipsias;
    Dionusos
    mê nun poiêsêis: hôs egô theômenos,
    hotan ti toutôn tôn sophismatôn idô,
    plein ê 'niautôi presbuteros aperchomai.
    Xanthias
    ô triskakodaimôn ar' ho trachêlos houtosi,
    20
    hoti thlibetai men, to de geloion ouk erei.
    Dionusos
    eit' ouch hubris taut' esti kai pollê truphê,
    hot' egô men ôn Dionusos huios Stamniou
    autos badizô kai ponô, touton d' ochô,
    hina mê talaipôroito mêd' achthos pheroi;
    Xanthias
    ou gar pherô 'gô;
    Dionusos
    pôs phereis gar hos g' ochei;
    Xanthias
    pherôn ge tauti.
    Dionusos
    tina tropon;
    Xanthias
    Bareôs panu.
    Dionusos
    oukoun to Baros touth' ho su phereis onos pherei;
    Xanthias
    ou dêth' ho g' echô 'gô kai pherô ma ton Di' ou.
    Dionusos
    pôs gar phereis, hos g' autos huph' heterou pherei;
    Xanthias
    30
    ouk oid': ho d' ômos houtosi piezetai.
    Dionusos
    su d' oun epeidê ton onon ou phêis s' ôphelein,
    en tôi merei su ton onon aramenos phere.
    Xanthias
    oimoi kakodaimôn: ti gar egô ouk enaumachoun;
    ê tan se kôkuein an ekeleuon makra.
    Dionusos
    35
    kataba panourge. kai gar engus tês thuras
    êdê badizôn eimi têsd', hoi prôta me
    edei trapesthai. paidion, pai, êmi, pai.

    There are a total of 12 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    1239 [THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS]
    2821 [ge]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    51 [B. Sogenannte Krasis.]
    48 [Von dem Hiatus bei den übrigen Dichtern.]
    80 [Eigentümlichkeiten der Mundarten in der Betonung.]

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

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    553 [Adverbialsätze der Absicht, durch hina, oft auch hôs, hopôs, ophra (ep. u. lyr.), damit, [heôs ep.] (negativ hina mê, hôs mê u. s. w., auch bloss mê [lat. ne], damit nicht), eingeleitet).]
    514 [Häufung der Negationen. — Überflüssige Negation.]
    552 [B. Substantivsätze der Wirkung, eingeleitet durch hopôs, hôs (negativ hopôs, hôs mê)).]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    287 [Interrogative Subjunctive.]
    323 [ Pure Final Clauses.]

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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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