Aristophanes Acharnians 842

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

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

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

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Acharnians (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; Liveright, 192?). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 842 focus
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.) — 842 focus

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οὐδʼ ἐξομόρξεται Πρέπις τὴν εὐρυπρωκτίαν σοι,
The verb ἐξομόρξεται (future middle of ἐξομόρσσω) is a hapax legomenon in Aristophanes and extremely rare in Attic comedy, appearing only here in the surviving corpus. It is a compound of ἐκ (out) and the root ὀρσ- (to scrape, pick, or tear off), likely implying a violent or thorough scraping away. The choice of this specific, archaic-sounding compound rather than a more common synonym for 'remedy' or 'remove' (like ἀποκτεῖναι or ἐκπείσαι) creates a grotesque, visceral image that fits the play's scatological humor and the character Pheippos's reputation for physical ugliness and vulgarity, suggesting a 'scraping off' of the buttocks rather than a mere legal or social remedy.