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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)

    Neanias

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.)
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    Therapaina
    ô makarios men dêmos, eudaimôn d' egô,
    autê te moi despoina makariôtatê,
    humeis th' hosai parestat' epi taisin thurais
    1115
    hoi geitones te pantes hoi te dêmotai,
    egô te pros toutoisin hê diakonos,
    hêtis memurismai tên kephalên murômasin,
    agathoisin ô Zeu: polu d' huperpepaiken au
    toutôn hapantôn ta Thasi' amphoreidia.
    1120
    en têi kephalêi gar emmenei polun chronon:
    ta d' all' apanthêsanta pant' apepteto:
    hôst' esti polu beltista, polu dêt' ô theoi.
    kerason akraton, euphranei tên nuchth' holên
    eklegomenas ho ti an malist' osmên echêi.
    1125
    all' ô gunaikes phrasate moi ton despotên,
    ton andr', hopou 'sti, tês emês kektêmenês+.
    Choros
    autou menous' hêmin g' an exeurein dokeis.
    Therapaina
    malisth': hodi gar epi to deipnon erchetai.
    ô despot' ô makarie kai trisolbie.
    Blepuros
    1130
    egô;
    Therapaina
    su mentoi nê Di' hôs g' oudeis anêr.
    tis gar genoit' an mallon olbiôteros,
    hostis politôn pleion ê trismuriôn
    ontôn to plêthos ou dedeipnêkas monos;
    Choros
    eudaimonikon g' anthrôpon eirêkas saphôs.
    Therapaina
    1135
    poi poi badizeis;
    Blepuros
    epi to deipnon erchomai.
    Therapaina
    nê tên Aphroditên polu g' hapantôn hustatos.
    homôs d' ekeleue sullabousan m' hê gunê
    agein se kai tasdi meta sou tas meirakas.
    oinos de Chios esti perileleimmenos
    1140
    kai tall' agatha. pros tauta mê bradunete,
    kai tôn theatôn ei tis eunous tunchanei+,
    kai tôn kritôn ei mê tis heterôse blepei,
    itô meth' hêmôn: panta gar parexomen.
    Blepuros
    oukoun hapasi dêta gennaiôs ereis
    1145
    kai mê paraleipseis mêden', all' eleutherôs
    kaleis geronta meirakion paidiskon; hôs
    to deipnon autois est' epeskeuasmenon
    hapaxapasin, ên apiôsin oikade.
    egô de pros to deipnon êdê 'peixomai:
    1150
    echô de toi kai daida tautêni kalôs.
    Choros
    ti dêta diatribeis echôn, all' ouk ageis
    tasdi labôn; en hosôi de katabaineis, egô
    epaisomai melos ti mellodeipnikon.
    smikron d' hupothesthai tois kritaisi boulomai.

    There are a total of 8 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    54 [E. Elisio inversa oder Aphäresis.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    387 [f) Futur.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    483 [Weglassung des Partizips ôn.]
    482 [Fortsetzung über das ergänzende Partizip.]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    5, 97, 2 [BOOK V]

    Cross references from J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras:
    V, 313E [CHAPTER V]

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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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