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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)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Matthew Dillon)
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    Choros
    euphêmein chrê kaxistasthai tois hêmeteroisi choroisin,
    355
    hostis apeiros toiônde logôn ê gnômêi mê kathareuei,
    ê gennaiôn orgia Mousôn mêt' eiden mêt' echoreusen,
    mêde Kratinou tou taurophagou glôttês Bakchei' etelesthê,
    ê bômolochois epesin chairei mê n' kairôi touto poiousin,
    ê stasin echthran mê kataluei mêd' eukolos esti politais,
    360
    all' anegeirei kai rhipizei kerdôn idiôn epithumôn,
    ê tês poleôs cheimazomenês archôn katadôrodokeitai,
    ê prodidôsin phrourion ê naus, ê taporrêt' apopempei
    ex Aiginês Thôrukiôn ôn eikostologos kakodaimôn,
    askômata kai lina kai pittan diapempôn eis Epidauron,
    365
    ê chrêmata tais tôn antipalôn nausin parechein tina peithei,
    ê katatilai tôn Hekataiôn kuklioisi choroisin hupaidôn,
    ê tous misthous tôn poiêtôn rhêtôr ôn eit' apotrôgei,
    kômôidêtheis en tais patriois teletais tais tou Dionusou:
    toutois audô kauthis apaudô kauthis to triton mal' apaudô
    370
    existasthai mustaisi chorois: humeis d' anegeirete molpên
    kai pannuchidas tas hêmeteras hai têide prepousin heortêi.

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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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