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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.) — 391 focus
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Knights (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 391 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.) — 391 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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κᾆτʼ ἀνὴρ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, τἀλλότριον ἀμῶν θέρος.
The phrase τἀλλότριον ἀμῶν θέρος relies on a specific agricultural metaphor where 'summer' (θέρος) denotes the harvest, and 'alien' (ἀλλότριον) signifies produce belonging to another. The construction ἀμῶν θέρος is a striking genitive of possession that, combined with the preceding clause, implies the Sycophant has been validated not as a citizen-farmer but as a thief appropriating the community's yield, a pun on the literal 'harvest' and the metaphorical 'plunder' of the city's resources.