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Κῆρυξ ἕτερος

ἀκούετε λεῴ· κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τοὺς Χοᾶς
1000

πίνειν ὑπὸ τῆς σάλπιγγος· ὃς δʼ ἂν ἐκπίῃ

πρώτιστος, ἀσκὸν Κτησιφῶντος λήψεται.

Δικαιόπολις

ὦ παῖδες ὦ γυναῖκες οὐκ ἠκούσατε;

τί δρᾶτε; τοῦ κήρυκος οὐκ ἀκούετε;

ἀναβράττετʼ ἐξοπτᾶτε τρέπετʼ ἀφέλκετε
1005

τὰ λαγῷα ταχέως, τοὺς στεφάνους ἀνείρετε.

φέρε τοὺς ὀβελίσκους, ἵνʼ ἀναπείρω τὰς κίχλας.

Acharnians. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

Ἀχαρνῆς (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.)

Translations (2)

Acharnians (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; Liveright, 192?). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1000 focus

HERALD

List, ye people! As was the custom of your forebears, empty a full pitcher of wine at the call of the trumpet; he, who first sees the bottom, shall get a wine-skin as round and plump as Ctesiphon's belly.

DICAEOPOLIS

Women, children, have you not heard? Faith! do you not heed the herald? Quick! let the hares boil and roast merrily; keep them a-turning; withdraw them from the flame; prepare the chaplets; reach me the skewers that I may spit the thrushes.

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.) — 1000 focus

Herald: Listen, you people; according to ancestral custom, the Choes.

1000

Herald: drink under the sound of the trumpet; whoever drinks it up,

Herald: the first one will take Ctesiphon's wineskin.

Dikaiopolis: Oh children, oh women, have you not heard?

Dikaiopolis: What are you doing? Do you not listen to the herald?

Dicaeopolis: boil, roast, turn, drag out

1005

Dikaiopolis: quickly the hares, the garlands ask for.

Dikaiopolis: Bring the skewers, so that I may pierce the thrushes.

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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ἀκούετε λεῴ· κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τοὺς Χοᾶς

The phrase 'κατὰ τὰ πάτρια' (according to ancestral custom) is a technical legal formula in Athenian procedure, often invoked in legal contexts to justify a course of action based on established precedent rather than statute. Here, it is deployed ironically by Dicaeopolis to frame his private peace treaty as a binding legal precedent, subverting the formal language of the Assembly. The juxtaposition of 'leōi' (to the public) with the invocation of 'patria' creates a specific rhetorical tension between the public sphere of the Assembly and the private, domestic sphere of the 'Choes' festival, which Dicaeopolis is about to celebrate.

Aristophanes Acharnians 1000

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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Κῆρυξ ἕτερος

ἀκούετε λεῴ· κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τοὺς Χοᾶς
1000

πίνειν ὑπὸ τῆς σάλπιγγος· ὃς δʼ ἂν ἐκπίῃ

πρώτιστος, ἀσκὸν Κτησιφῶντος λήψεται.

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HERALD

List, ye people! As was the custom of your forebears, empty a full pitcher of wine at the call of the trumpet; he, who first sees the bottom, shall get a wine-skin as round and plump as Ctesiphon's belly.

DICAEOPOLIS

Women, children, have you not heard? Faith! do you not heed the herald? Quick! let the hares boil and roast merrily; keep them a-turning; withdraw them from the flame; prepare the chaplets; reach me the skewers that I may spit the thrushes.

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Κῆρυξ ἕτερος ἀκούετε λεῴ· κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τοὺς Χοᾶς 1000 πίνειν ὑπὸ τῆς σάλπιγγος· ὃς δʼ ἂν ἐκπίῃ πρώτιστος, ἀσκὸν Κτησιφῶντος λήψεται.

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HERALD List, ye people! As was the custom of your forebears, empty a full pitcher of wine at the call of the trumpet; he, who first sees the bottom, shall get a wine-skin as round and plump as Ctesiphon's belly.

DICAEOPOLIS Women, children, have you not heard? Faith! do you not heed the herald? Quick! let the hares boil and roast merrily; keep them a-turning; withdraw them from the flame; prepare the chaplets; reach me the skewers that I may spit the thrushes.

Commentary

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Κῆρυξ ἕτερος

ἀκούετε λεῴ· κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τοὺς Χοᾶς
1000

πίνειν ὑπὸ τῆς σάλπιγγος· ὃς δʼ ἂν ἐκπίῃ

πρώτιστος, ἀσκὸν Κτησιφῶντος λήψεται.

HERALD

List, ye people! As was the custom of your forebears, empty a full pitcher of wine at the call of the trumpet; he, who first sees the bottom, shall get a wine-skin as round and plump as Ctesiphon's belly.

DICAEOPOLIS

Women, children, have you not heard? Faith! do you not heed the herald? Quick! let the hares boil and roast merrily; keep them a-turning; withdraw them from the flame; prepare the chaplets; reach me the skewers that I may spit the thrushes.