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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Exodus 1
  • Episode 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Choral 1
  • Agon 1
  • Episode 2
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Episode 3
  • Parabasis 1
  • Exodus 2
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    Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (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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    Praxagora
    Ô lampron omma tou trochêlatou luchnou
    kallist' en eustochoisin ezêtêmenon:
    gonas te gar sas kai tuchas dêlôsomen:
    trochôi gar elatheis keramikês rhumês hupo
    5
    muktêrsi lampras hêliou timas echeis:
    horma phlogos sêmeia ta xunkeimena.
    soi gar monôi dêloumen eikotôs, epei
    kan toisi dômatioisin Aphroditês tropôn
    peirômenaisi plêsion parastateis,
    10
    lordoumenôn te sômatôn epistatên
    ophthalmon oudeis ton son exeirgei domôn.
    monos de mêrôn eis aporrêtous muchous
    lampeis apheuôn tên epanthousan tricha:
    stoas te karpou Bakchiou te namatos
    15
    plêreis hupoignusaisi sumparastateis:
    kai tauta sundrôn ou laleis tois plêsion.
    anth' hôn suneisei kai ta nun bouleumata
    hosa Skirois edoxe tais emais philais.
    all' oudemia parestin has hêkein echrên.
    20
    kaitoi pros orthron g' estin: hê d' ekklêsia
    autika mal' estai: katalabein d' hêmas hedras,
    has Phuromachos pot' eipen, ei memnêsth' eti,
    dei tas heteras pôs kankathezomenas lathein.
    ti dêt' an eiê; poteron ouk errammenous
    25
    echousi tous pôgônas, hous eirêt' echein;
    ê thaimatia tandreia klepsasais lathein
    ên chalepon autais; all' horô tondi luchnon
    prosionta. phere nun epanachôrêsô palin,
    mê kai tis ôn anêr ho prosiôn tunchanêi.
    Gunê A
    30
    hôra badizein, hôs ho kêrux artiôs
    hêmôn prosiousôn deuteron kekokkuken.
    Praxagora
    egô de g' humas prosdokôs' êgrêgorê
    tên nukta pasan. alla phere tên geitona
    tênd' ekkalesômai thrugonôsa tên thuran.
    35
    dei gar ton andr' autês lathein.
    Gunê B
    êkousa toi
    hupodoumenê to knuma sou tôn daktulôn,
    hat' ou katadarthous'. ho gar anêr ô philtatê,
    Salaminios gar estin hôi xuneim' egô,
    tên nuchth' holên êlaune m' en tois strômasin,
    40
    hôst' arti touti thoimation autou 'labon.

    There are a total of 3 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    371 [Bemerkungen über einige Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des Numerus, des Genus und der Person.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [865-1080]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    333 [Secondary Tenses of Indicative in 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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