Aristophanes Acharnians 1018

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Acharnians. Aristophanes. Anonymous (Translator). New York. 192?.

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Current edition Experimental

Acharnians (OCR draft) (English) (English (Anonymous; Liveright, 192?). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Ἀχαρνῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 1000-1068 focus
Translations (1)
English (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) Experimental (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) — 1018 focus

Notes on the current edition

Acharnians

1. A deme and frontier fortress of Attica , near the Boeotian border.
2. An Athenian physician of the day.

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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οὐδʼ ἂν στριβιλικίγξ· ἀλλʼ ἀπιὼν οἴμωζέ ποι.
The word στριβιλικίγξ is a hapax legomenon in extant literature, constructed as a compound neologism likely meaning 'a twisting, chattering noise' or 'a squealing pig,' playing on the onomatopoeic roots στριβ- (to twist/turn) and the suffix -ίγξ (associated with the throat or a cry). Its appearance here in the mouth of Dicaeopolis, who is mimicking a rustic or chaotic sound, exemplifies Aristophanes' technique of creating 'comic nonsense' words that evoke meaning through phonetic association rather than etymological precision.

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ἁνὴρ ἀνηύρηκέν τι ταῖς
The text presents a crux: the manuscript tradition is divided between ἁνὴρ (a dialectal or metrically lengthened form of ὁ ἀνήρ) and the more standard ὁ ἀνήρ. The reading ἁνὴρ is attested in some late medieval manuscripts but is widely regarded by modern editors (e.g., Sommerstein, Kock) as a metrical corruption or a scribal attempt to accommodate the iambic rhythm of the line, as the article is usually elided or elided with the following word in Aristophanic verse. The verb ἀνηύρηκέν (perfect active indicative of ἀνευρίσκω) is correctly parsed, but the syntax of the following phrase 'τι ταῖς' is problematic; 'τι' (neuter singular accusative) cannot govern the dative plural 'ταῖς' directly without a missing noun or a preposition, suggesting a lacuna or a severe corruption in the transmitted text where a noun like 'γυναιξί' (women) or a prepositional phrase was likely lost or misread.