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Χορός

εὐδαιμονεῖ γʼ ἅνθρωπος. οὐκ ἤκουσας οἷ προβαίνει

τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ βουλεύματος; καρπώσεται γὰρ ἁνὴρ

ἐν τἀγορᾷ καθήμενος·

κἂν εἰσίῃ τις Κτησίας

ἢ συκοφάντης ἄλλος, οἰμώζων
840

καθεδεῖται·

842

Χορός

οὐδʼ ἄλλος ἀνθρώπων ὑποψωνῶν σε πημανεῖ τι,

οὐδʼ ἐξομόρξεται Πρέπις τὴν εὐρυπρωκτίαν σοι,

οὐδʼ ὠστιεῖ Κλεωνύμῳ·

χλαῖναν δʼ ἔχων φανὴν δίει
845

κοὐ ξυντυχών σʼ Ὑπέρβολος

δικῶν ἀναπλήσει·

848

Χορός

οὐδʼ ἐντυχὼν ἐν τἀγορᾷ πρόσεισί σοι βαδίζων

Κρατῖνος ἀεὶ κεκαρμένος μοιχὸν μιᾷ μαχαίρᾳ,

ὁ περιπόνηρος Ἀρτέμων,
850

ὁ ταχὺς ἄγαν τὴν μουσικήν,

ὄζων κακὸν τῶν μασχαλῶν

πατρὸς Τραγασαίου·

854

Χορός

οὐδʼ αὖθις αὖ σε σκώψεται Παύσων ὁ παμπόνηρος

Λυσίστρατός τʼ ἐν τἀγορᾷ, Χολαργέων ὄνειδος,
855

ὁ περιαλουργὸς τοῖς κακοῖς,

ῥιγῶν τε καὶ πεινῶν ἀεὶ

πλεῖν ἢ τριάκονθʼ ἡμέρας

τοῦ μηνὸς ἑκάστου.

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.) — 836 focus

CHORUS

Here is a man truly happy. See how everything succeeds to his wish. Peacefully seated in his market, he will earn his living; woe to Ctesias,¹ and all other informers who dare to enter there!

CHORUS

You will not be cheated as to the value of wares, you will not again see Prepis² wiping his foul rump, nor will Cleonymus³ jostle you; you will take your walks, clothed in a fine tunic, without meeting Hyperbolus⁴ and his unceasing quibblings,

CHORUS

without being accosted on the public place by any importunate fellow, neither by Cratinus,⁵ shaven in the fashion of the debauchees, nor by this musician, who plagues us with his silly improvisations, Artemo, with his arm-pits stinking as foul as a goat, like his father before him.

CHORUS

You will not be the butt of the villainous Pauson's⁶ jeers, nor of Lysistratus,⁷ the disgrace of the Cholargian deme, who is the incarnation of all the vices, and endures cold and hunger more than thirty days in the month.

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.) — 836 focus

Chorus: The man is happy. Did you not hear how he proceeds?

Chorus: The matter of the plan? For the man will harvest it.

Chorus: sitting in the agora.

Chorus: And if Ktesias is there too

Chorus: or some other sycophant, lamenting

840

Chorus: he is sitting down.

Chorus: Nor will any other man, while suspecting you, harm you in any way,

Chorus: Nor will Prepis cleanse your wide-buttocked rear for you,

Chorus: Nor does he feast Cleonymus;

Chorus: Having worn a cloak, he was seen as a runner.

845

Chorus: and Hyperbolus, not having met you,

Chorus: [he] will fill the lawsuits.

Chorus: And he will not approach you walking if he has not encountered you in the marketplace.

Chorus: Cratinus, always having been cut up, adulterer with one knife,

Chorus: the thoroughly wicked Artemon,

850

Chorus: the too swift music,

Chorus: A bad smell from the armpits.

Chorus: of Tragasas's father;

Chorus: And again, the utterly villainous Pauson will not mock you.

Chorus: And Lysistratus in the agora, the disgrace of the Chollargians,

855

Chorus: the tailor of evils,

Chorus: shivering and always hungry

Chorus: more than thirty days

Chorus: of every month.

Commentary

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τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ βουλεύματος; καρπώσεται γὰρ ἁνὴρ

The form ἁνὴρ is a distinctive Doric contraction of ὁ ἀνήρ (from *ἁν-ήρ*), preserving the initial aspirate where Attic would have the smooth breathing. While Aristophanes frequently employs Doricisms for comic effect or to characterize rustic speakers (as in the *Acharnians* chorus), this specific metrical and dialectal form here underscores the speaker's rustic identity and the play's focus on the Acharnian farmers. The verb καρπώσεται, a future middle of καρπώ, is also significant; in this context, it functions as a technical agricultural metaphor meaning 'to reap the fruit' or 'to gain the harvest' of the council's decision, implying that the speaker (Dicaeopolis) will personally appropriate the consequences or benefits of the political maneuver.

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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.

Aristophanes Acharnians 836-859

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

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CHORUS

Here is a man truly happy. See how everything succeeds to his wish. Peacefully seated in his market, he will earn his living; woe to Ctesias,¹ and all other informers who dare to enter there!

CHORUS

You will not be cheated as to the value of wares, you will not again see Prepis² wiping his foul rump, nor will Cleonymus³ jostle you; you will take your walks, clothed in a fine tunic, without meeting Hyperbolus⁴ and his unceasing quibblings,

CHORUS

without being accosted on the public place by any importunate fellow, neither by Cratinus,⁵ shaven in the fashion of the debauchees, nor by this musician, who plagues us with his silly improvisations, Artemo, with his arm-pits stinking as foul as a goat, like his father before him.

CHORUS

You will not be the butt of the villainous Pauson's⁶ jeers, nor of Lysistratus,⁷ the disgrace of the Cholargian deme, who is the incarnation of all the vices, and endures cold and hunger more than thirty days in the month.

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CHORUS Here is a man truly happy. See how everything succeeds to his wish. Peacefully seated in his market, he will earn his living; woe to Ctesias, 1 and all other informers who dare to enter there!

CHORUS You will not be cheated as to the value of wares, you will not again see Prepis 2 wiping his foul rump, nor will Cleonymus 3 jostle you; you will take your walks, clothed in a fine tunic, without meeting Hyperbolus 4 and his unceasing quibblings,

CHORUS without being accosted on the public place by any importunate fellow, neither by Cratinus, 5 shaven in the fashion of the debauchees, nor by this musician, who plagues us with his silly improvisations, Artemo, with his arm-pits stinking as foul as a goat, like his father before him.

CHORUS You will not be the butt of the villainous Pauson's 6 jeers, nor of Lysistratus, 7 the disgrace of the Cholargian deme, who is the incarnation of all the vices, and endures cold and hunger more than thirty days in the month.

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CHORUS

Here is a man truly happy. See how everything succeeds to his wish. Peacefully seated in his market, he will earn his living; woe to Ctesias,¹ and all other informers who dare to enter there!

CHORUS

You will not be cheated as to the value of wares, you will not again see Prepis² wiping his foul rump, nor will Cleonymus³ jostle you; you will take your walks, clothed in a fine tunic, without meeting Hyperbolus⁴ and his unceasing quibblings,

CHORUS

without being accosted on the public place by any importunate fellow, neither by Cratinus,⁵ shaven in the fashion of the debauchees, nor by this musician, who plagues us with his silly improvisations, Artemo, with his arm-pits stinking as foul as a goat, like his father before him.

CHORUS

You will not be the butt of the villainous Pauson's⁶ jeers, nor of Lysistratus,⁷ the disgrace of the Cholargian deme, who is the incarnation of all the vices, and endures cold and hunger more than thirty days in the month.