Pearson 147

147 τοιοῦδε πατρός is isolated. In order to show that it is a continuation of the address from φαλῆτες, I have printed εἰ... φεύγετε as a parenthesis.

Ichneutae. Alfred Chilton Pearson. ed. Alfred Chilton Pearson. . 2026-09-15.

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Greek (A. S. Hunt, 1912; Perseus reference) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. S. Hunt, 1912; Perseus reference)) — 145 focus

Σιληνός

τί μοι ψ[ό]φον; φοβ[εῖσθε] κα[ὶ] δειμαίνετε,
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μάλθης ἄναγνα σώ[μα]τʼ ἐκμεμαγμένα

κάκιστα θηρῶν ὀντ[ες, ἐ]ν [π]άσῃ σκιᾷ

φόβον βλέποντες, πάν[τα] δειματούμενοι,

ἄνευρα κἀκόμιστα κἀνε[λε]ύθερα

διακονοῦντες, σώματʼ εἰ[ς]ιδ[ε]ῖν μόνον
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κα[ὶ γ]λῶσσα κα[ὶ] φάλητες. εἰ δέ που δέῃ,

πιστοὶ λόγοισιν ὄντες ἔργα φεύγετε.

τοιοῦ[δ]ε πατρός, ὦ κάκιστα θηρίων,

οὗ πόλλʼ ἐφʼ ἥβης μνήματʼ ἀνδρείας ὕπο

κ[ε]ῖται παρʼ οἴκοις νυμφικοῖς ἠσκημένα,
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οὐκ εἰς φυγὴν κλίνοντος, οὐ δουλ[ο]υμένου,

οὐδὲ ψόφοισι τῶν ὀρειτρόφων βοτῶν

[π]τήσσοντος, ἀλλʼ α[κ]μαῖσιν ἐξει[ρ]γασμένου

[ἃ] νῦν ὑφʼ ὑμῶν λάμ[πρʼ ὑ]πορρυπαίνεται

[ψ]όφῳ νεώρει κόλακ[ι] ποιμένων π[ο]θέν,
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[ὃν] δὴ φοβεῖσθε παῖδες ὣς πρὶν εἰσιδεῖν,

πλοῦτον δὲ χ[ρ]υσόφαντον ἐξαφίετε,

ὃν Φοῖβος ὑμῖν εἶπε κ[ἀ]νεδέξατο,

καὶ τὴν ἐλευθέρωσιν ἣν κατῄνεσεν 7

ὑμῖν τε κἀμοί· ταῦτʼ ἀφέντες εὕδετε.
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εἰ μὴ ʼνανοστήσαντες ἐξιχνεύσε[τε

τὰς βοῦς ὅπῃ βεβᾶσι καὶ τὸν βουκόλο[ν,

κλαίοντες αὐτῇ δειλίᾳ ψοφή[ς]ετε.

Χορός

πάτερ, παρὼν αὐτός με συμποδηγέτε[ι,

ἵνʼ εὖ κατείδῃς εἴ τίς ἐστι δειλία·
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γνώση[ι] γὰρ αὐτός, ἂν παρῇς, οὐδὲν λέγω[ν.

Σιληνός

ἐγὼ πα[ρ]ὼν αὐτός σε προσβιβῶ λόγῳ,

κυνορτικὸν σύριγμα διακαλούμεν[ος.

ἀλλʼ εἷʼ [ἐ]φίστω τριζύγης οἵμου βάσιν·

ἐγὼ δʼ ἐν [ἔ]ργοις παρμένων σʼ ἀπευθυνῶ.
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Translations (1)

English (Anne Mahoney, adapted from Walker) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anne Mahoney, adapted from Walker)) — 145 focus

Silenus

Why are you running away, afraid of a noise? You wretched beasts, with your filthy bodies all smeared with wax, seeing terrors in every shadow, scared of everything! You’re gutless, and careless,
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and servile. You’re nothing but body and tongue and voice. You trust to words and flee from actions. Worst of animals, how did you ever come to have a father like me? There are lots of monuments to my courage, when I was young, songs sung at every household’s wedding feast. I was never put to flight, never afraid, and I didn’t quiver at noises made by animals up on the mountains. Instead, I accomplished great things with my spear. That brilliant spear is now besmirched by you,
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because some new sound from the shepherds has frightened you, like the babies you are, and you’ve given up on the golden wealth that Phoebus said he was offering to you, to say nothing of freedom, which he also offered 7 to you and to me. You’ve put all that away and gone to sleep. Unless you get back to work tracking those cows and their cowherd, wherever they are, you’ll be making noises of your own for your cowardice.
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Chorus

Father, walk beside me,

so you’ll know whether I’m really a coward. If you’re here, you’ll know first hand, not through rumors.
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Silenus

I will approach this sound with you, and I will call out and whistle as I’d call a dog. You, line up three by three, and I will go beside you and get you straightened out again.

Commentary

Commentary (A. C. Pearson, 1917; OCR review) (OCR draft) (Commentary (A. C. Pearson, 1917; OCR review)) focus

mvp-comment-128-1 240 μάταιος, expressing the presumption of rash folly, as (in another sphere) in Trach. 565

ψαύει ματαίαις χερσίν

. Such recklessness of speech was exhibited by Lycurgus: Ant. 961

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις

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Χορός

πάτερ, παρὼν αὐτός με συμποδηγέτε[ι,

ἵνʼ εὖ κατείδῃς εἴ τίς ἐστι δειλία·
170

γνώση[ι] γὰρ αὐτός, ἂν παρῇς, οὐδὲν λέγω[ν.

Chorus

Father, walk beside me,

so you’ll know whether I’m really a coward. If you’re here, you’ll know first hand, not through rumors.
170

Silenus

I will approach this sound with you, and I will call out and whistle as I’d call a dog. You, line up three by three, and I will go beside you and get you straightened out again.

Commentary

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Pearson 147

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Χορός πάτερ, παρὼν αὐτός με συμποδηγέτε[ι, ἵνʼ εὖ κατείδῃς εἴ τίς ἐστι δειλία· 170 γνώση[ι] γὰρ αὐτός, ἂν παρῇς, οὐδὲν λέγω[ν.

Chorus Father, walk beside me, so you’ll know whether I’m really a coward. If you’re here, you’ll know first hand, not through rumors. 170

Silenus I will approach this sound with you, and I will call out and whistle as I’d call a dog. You, line up three by three, and I will go beside you and get you straightened out again.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Χορός

πάτερ, παρὼν αὐτός με συμποδηγέτε[ι,

ἵνʼ εὖ κατείδῃς εἴ τίς ἐστι δειλία·
170

γνώση[ι] γὰρ αὐτός, ἂν παρῇς, οὐδὲν λέγω[ν.

Chorus

Father, walk beside me,

so you’ll know whether I’m really a coward. If you’re here, you’ll know first hand, not through rumors.
170

Silenus

I will approach this sound with you, and I will call out and whistle as I’d call a dog. You, line up three by three, and I will go beside you and get you straightened out again.