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    Aristophanes, Frogs (ed. Matthew Dillon)

    Chorus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Matthew Dillon)
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    Chorus
    Let him be mute and stand aside from our sacred dances
    who has no experience of mystical language, or has not cleansed his mind
    Who never has seen and never has danced in the rites of the noble Muses
    Nor ever has been inducted into the Bacchic mysteries of beef-eating Cratinus
    Or who takes delight in foolish words when doing this is ill-timed,
    Whoever does not eliminate hateful factionalism, and is disagreeable to the citizens,
    but kindles and fans civil strife, in his thirst for private advantage:
    Whoever takes bribes when guiding the state through the midst of a storm
    Or betrays our forts or our ships, smuggles contraband from Aegina
    As Thorycion did, that wretched collector of taxes
    Sending pads and sails and pitch to Epidauros,
    Or persuades anyone to send supplies to the enemies' ships,
    Or defiles Hecate's shrine, while singing dithyrambs,
    Or any politician who bites off the pay of the poets
    For being ridiculed in the ancestral rites of Dionysus.
    All these I warn, and twice I warn, and thrice I warn again,
    stand aside from our mystical dances; but as for you: arouse the song
    and the night-long dances, that belong to our festival here.

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