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  • Parodos 1
  • Lyric-scene 1
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    Aristophanes, Plutus (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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    Kariôn
    hôs argaleon pragm' estin ô Zeu kai theoi
    doulon genesthai paraphronountos despotou.
    ên gar ta beltisth' ho therapôn lexas tuchêi,
    doxêi de mê dran tauta tôi kektêmenôi,
    5
    metechein anankê ton theraponta tôn kakôn.
    tou sômatos gar ouk eai ton kurion
    kratein ho daimôn, alla ton eônêmenon.
    kai tauta men dê tauta. tôi de Loxiai,
    hos thespiôidei tripodos ek chrusêlatou,
    10
    mempsin dikaian memphomai tautên, hoti
    iatros ôn kai mantis, hôs phasin, sophos
    melancholônt' apepempse mou ton despotên,
    hostis akolouthei katopin anthrôpou tuphlou,
    tounantion drôn ê prosêk' autôi poiein.
    15
    hoi gar blepontes tois tuphlois hêgoumetha,
    houtos d' akolouthei, kame prosbiazetai,
    kai taut' apokrinomenôi to parapan oude gru.
    egô men oun ouk esth' hopôs sigêsomai,
    ên mê phrasêis ho ti tôid' akolouthoumen pote
    20
    ô despot', alla soi parexô pragmata.
    ou gar me tuptêseis stephanon echonta ge.
    Chremulos
    ma Di' all' aphelôn ton stephanon, ên lupêis ti me,
    hina mallon algêis.
    Kariôn
    lêros+: ou gar pausomai
    prin an phrasêis moi tis pot' estin houtosi:
    25
    eunous gar ôn soi punthanomai panu sphodra.
    Chremulos
    all' ou se krupsô: tôn emôn gar oiketôn
    pistotaton hêgoumai se kai kleptistaton.
    egô theosebês kai dikaios ôn anêr
    kakôs epratton kai penês ên:
    Kariôn
    oida toi.
    Chremulos
    30
    heteroi d' eploutoun hierosuloi rhêtores
    kai sukophantai kai ponêroi:
    Kariôn
    peithomai.
    Chremulos
    eperêsomenos oun ôichomên hôs ton theon,
    ton emon men autou tou talaipôrou+ schedon
    êdê nomizôn ektetoxeusthai bion+,
    35
    ton d' huion, hosper ôn monos moi tunchanei,
    peusomenos ei chrê metabalonta tous tropous
    einai panourgon, adikon, hugies mêde hen,
    hôs tôi biôi tout' auto nomisas sumpherein.
    Kariôn
    ti dêta Phoibos elaken ek tôn stemmatôn;
    Chremulos
    40
    peusei. saphôs gar ho theos eipe moi todi:
    hotôi xunantêsaimi prôton exiôn,
    ekeleue toutou mê methiesthai m' eti,
    peithein d' emautôi xunakolouthein oikade.
    Kariôn
    kai tôi xunantais dêta prôtôi;
    Chremulos
    toutôii.
    Kariôn
    45
    eit' ou xuniês tên epinoian tou theou
    phrazousan ô skaiotate soi saphestata
    askein+ ton huion ton epichôrion tropon;
    Chremulos
    tôi touto krineis;
    Kariôn
    dêlon hotiê kai tuphlôi
    gnônai dokei touth', hôs sphodr' esti sumpheron
    50
    to mêden+ askein hugies en tôi nun chronôi.

    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):
    133 [Quantität der dritten Deklination.]
    48 [Von dem Hiatus bei den übrigen Dichtern.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    455 [Von dem Reflexivpronomen insbesondere).]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    36 [Adjectives]: ta beltista

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown:
    94

    Cross references from J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras:
    II, 310D [CHAPTER II]

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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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