Aristophanes Knights 1077

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Knights. 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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Ἱππῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 1060 focus
Translations (2)
Knights (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1060 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.) — 1060 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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ὁτιὴ βότρυς τρώγουσιν ἐν τοῖς χωρίοις.
The text presents a significant crux: the phrase 'ὁτιὴ βότρυς τρώγουσιν' appears to contain a textual corruption or a highly irregular dialectal usage. The form 'ὁτιὴ' is not a standard Attic conjunction (which would be ὅτι) nor a standard demonstrative; it resembles the Doric or Boeotian dialectal form ὅττι or a corruption of ὅτι γε. More critically, the verb τρώγουσιν (they eat) with the accusative singular βότρυς (a grape cluster) as the direct object is semantically awkward in this context. In Aristophanic comedy, this line is often cited as a corruption of ὅτι γε βότρυς (that indeed a grape cluster) or potentially a misreading of a dialectal form where the subject or object case is obscured. The most plausible reconstruction, supported by the context of the play (where characters often discuss food or rural life), suggests the text may be corrupted to read ὅτι γε βότρυς (that indeed a grape cluster) or that 'βότρυς' is being used in a specialized, perhaps metaphorical, sense that requires emendation to make the syntax coherent. The presence of 'ὁτιὴ' is the primary textual difficulty, as it does not fit standard Attic syntax without conjecture.