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Contents:
  • Prologue 1
  • Parodos 1
  • Agon 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 1
  • Agon 2
  • Lyric-scene 1
  • Episode 2
  • Parabasis 1
  • Lyric-scene 2
  • Parabasis 4
  • Lyric-scene 3
  • Choral 2
  • Episode 3
  • Lyric-scene 4
  • Episode 4
  • Exodus 1
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    Aristophanes, Birds (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.)
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    Epops
    kaleis de tou kluein thelôn;
    Choros
    tines poth' hoide kai pothen;
    Epops
    xeinô sophês aph' Hellados.
    Choros
    410
    tuchê de poia komizei
    pot' autô pros ornithas
    elthein;
    Epops
    erôs
    biou diaitês te kai
    sou xunoikein te soi
    415
    kai xuneinai to pan.
    Choros
    ti phêis;
    legousi dê tinas logous;
    Epops
    apista kai pera kluein.
    Choros
    horai ti kerdos enthad' axion
    monês, hotôi pepoith'
    emoi xunôn
    420
    kratein an ê ton echthron ê
    philoisin ôphelein echein+;
    Epops
    legei megan tin' olbon oute
    lekton oute piston: hôs
    sa gar panta tauta kai
    425
    to têide kai to keise kai
    to deuro prosbibai legôn.
    Choros
    potera mainomenos;
    Epops
    aphaton hôs phronimos.
    Choros
    eni sophon ti phreni;
    Epops
    430
    puknotaton kinados,
    sophisma kurma trimma paipalêm' holon+.
    Choros
    legein legein keleue moi.
    kluôn gar hôn su moi legeis
    logôn anepterômai.

    There are a total of 7 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    139 [II. Heteroclita.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    409 [a) Akkusativ bei transitiven Verben, sowie bei transitiv gebrauchten Intransitiven.]
    346 [a) Metonymischer Gebrauch der Substantive.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
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    * [201-595]

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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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