Aristophanes Acharnians 480

Acharnians. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

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

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Ἀχαρνῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 490-625 focus
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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.) — 490 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.) — 490 focus

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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ὦ θύμʼ ἄνευ σκάνδικος ἐμπορευτέα.
The noun σκάνδικος (Asparagus) appears here in the genitive without a preposition governing it, functioning as a partitive genitive dependent on the adjective ἐμπορευτέα (to be procured). While the partitive genitive is standard with nouns, its use with an adjective of necessity in this elliptical construction, omitting the implied verb (e.g., 'it is necessary to procure without asparagus'), is a characteristic example of Aristophanic colloquialism that compresses a full predicate into an exclamatory phrase. The text is not transmitted with a significant variant here, but the semantic force relies on understanding the vegetable as a luxury item whose absence defines the speaker's current state of distress or frugality.