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

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Jeffrey Henderson) | English (ed. William James Hickie)
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    Pheidippidês
    hôs hêdu kainois pragmasin kai dexiois homilein,
    1400
    kai tôn kathestôtôn nomôn+ huperphronein dunasthai.
    egô gar hote men hippikêi ton noun monêi proseichon,
    oud' an tri' eipein rhêmath' hoios t' ên prin examartein:
    nuni d' epeidê m' houtosi toutôn epausen autos,
    gnômais de leptais kai logois xuneimi kai merimnais,
    1405
    oimai didaxein hôs dikaion ton patera kolazein.
    Strepsiadês
    hippeue toinun nê Di', hôs emoige kreitton estin
    hippôn trephein tethrippon ê tuptomenon epitribênai.
    Pheidippidês
    ekeise d' hothen apeschisas me tou logou meteimi,
    kai prôt' erêsomai se touti: paida m' ont' etuptes;
    Strepsiadês
    1410
    egôge s' eunoôn te kai kêdomenos.
    Pheidippidês
    eipe dê moi,
    ou kame soi dikaion estin eunoein homoiôs
    tuptein t', epeidêper ge tout' est' eunoein to tuptein;
    pôs gar to men son sôma chrê plêgôn athôion einai,
    toumon de mê; kai mên ephun eleutheros ge kagô.
    1415
    klaousi paides, patera d' ou klaein dokeis; ...
    phêseis nomizesthai su paidos touto tourgon einai:
    egô de g' anteipoim' an hôs dis paides hoi gerontes++:
    eikos de mallon tous gerontas ê neous ti klaein,
    hosôiper examartanein hêtton dikaion autous.
    Strepsiadês
    1420
    all' oudamou nomizetai ton patera touto paschein.
    Pheidippidês
    oukoun anêr ho ton nomon theis touton ên to prôton
    hôsper su kagô, kai legôn epeithe tous palaious;
    hêtton ti dêt' exesti kamoi kainon au to loipon
    theinai nomon tois huiesin, tous pateras antituptein;
    1425
    hosas de plêgas eichomen prin ton nomon tethênai,
    aphiemen, kai didomen autois+ proika+ sunkekophthai+.
    skepsai de tous alektruonas kai talla ta bota tauti,
    hôs tous pateras amunetai: kaitoi ti diapherousin
    hêmôn ekeinoi, plên g' hoti psêphismat' ou graphousin;
    Strepsiadês
    1430
    ti dêt', epeidê tous alektruonas hapanta mimei,
    ouk esthieis kai tên kopron kapi xulou katheudeis;
    Pheidippidês
    ou tauton ô tan estin, oud' an Sôkratei dokoiê.
    Strepsiadês
    pros tauta+ mê tupt'+: ei de mê, sauton+ pot' aitiasei+.
    Pheidippidês
    kai pôs;
    Strepsiadês
    epei se men dikaios eim' egô kolazein,
    1435
    su d', ên genêtai+ soi, ton huion.
    Pheidippidês
    ên de mê genêtai,
    matên+ emoi+ keklausetai++, su d' enchanôn+ tethnêxeis+.

    There are a total of 11 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    354: ô kainôn epôn i kinêta kai mochleuta

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    392 [Der Indikativ (Imperativ) in Verbindung mit an (ke).).]
    388 [g) Futurum exactum.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [376-581]

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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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