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Demos: I will lift you up into the air and cast you into the abyss,

Demos: hanging Hyperbolus from his throat.

Sausage-Seller: Now you are speaking rightly and wisely already;

Sausage-seller: But the rest, come, let me see, tell me how you will conduct yourself.

1365

Demos: First, those who drive long ships,

Demos: I will pay the full wage to those who have been defeated.

Sausage-seller: For many buttocks you gave a gift.

Demos: then a hoplite, having been enrolled in the register,

Demos: No one will be enrolled in the register in a hurry,

1370

Demus: But just as it was at first, it will be enrolled.

Knights. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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Ἱππῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 1362 focus

Δῆμος

ἄρας μετέωρον ἐς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμβαλῶ,

ἐκ τοῦ λάρυγγος ἐκκρεμάσας Ὑπέρβολον.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

τουτὶ μὲν ὀρθῶς καὶ φρονίμως ἤδη λέγεις·

τὰ δʼ ἄλλα, φέρʼ ἴδω, πῶς πολιτεύσει φράσον.
1365

Δῆμος

πρῶτον μὲν ὁπόσοι ναῦς ἐλαύνουσιν μακράς,

καταγομένοις τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδώσω ʼντελῆ.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

πολλοῖς γʼ ὑπολίσφοις πυγιδίοισιν ἐχαρίσω.

Δῆμος

ἔπειθʼ ὁπλίτης ἐντεθεὶς ἐν καταλόγῳ

οὐδεὶς κατὰ σπουδὰς μετεγγραφήσεται,
1370

ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται.

Translations (1)

Knights (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1362 focus

Demos

I would have him removed from the bar, I would bind Hyperbolus about his neck like a stone and would fling him into the Barathrum.

Sausage-Seller

Well spoken! 1365 but what other measures do you wish to take?

Demos

First, as soon as ever a fleet returns to the harbor, I shall pay up the rowers in full.

Sausage-Seller

That will soothe many a worn and chafed bottom.

Demos

Further, the hoplite enrolled for military service 1370 shall not get transferred to another service through favour, but shall stick to that given him at the outset.

Commentary

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ἐκ τοῦ λάρυγγος ἐκκρεμάσας Ὑπέρβολον.

The verb ἐκκρεμάσας (having hung out) is used here with the accusative Ὑπέρβολον to describe the physical act of displaying the politician's head or body parts as a grotesque trophy. While the participle is aorist active, the construction relies on the specific context of the Paphlagonian (Cleon's proxy) being treated as a butchered animal, a metaphor that Aristophanes extends to the physical removal of the 'throat' (λάρυγγος) to signify the silencing or destruction of the demagogue's voice. The phrase encapsulates the play's central motif of the Sausage-Seller's victory over the 'Butcher' through visceral, bodily violence rather than political debate.

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Δῆμος

ἄρας μετέωρον ἐς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμβαλῶ,

ἐκ τοῦ λάρυγγος ἐκκρεμάσας Ὑπέρβολον.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

τουτὶ μὲν ὀρθῶς καὶ φρονίμως ἤδη λέγεις·

τὰ δʼ ἄλλα, φέρʼ ἴδω, πῶς πολιτεύσει φράσον.
1365

Δῆμος

πρῶτον μὲν ὁπόσοι ναῦς ἐλαύνουσιν μακράς,

καταγομένοις τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδώσω ʼντελῆ.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

πολλοῖς γʼ ὑπολίσφοις πυγιδίοισιν ἐχαρίσω.

Δῆμος

ἔπειθʼ ὁπλίτης ἐντεθεὶς ἐν καταλόγῳ

οὐδεὶς κατὰ σπουδὰς μετεγγραφήσεται,
1370

ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται.

Demos

I would have him removed from the bar, I would bind Hyperbolus about his neck like a stone and would fling him into the Barathrum.

Sausage-Seller

Well spoken! 1365 but what other measures do you wish to take?

Demos

First, as soon as ever a fleet returns to the harbor, I shall pay up the rowers in full.

Sausage-Seller

That will soothe many a worn and chafed bottom.

Demos

Further, the hoplite enrolled for military service 1370 shall not get transferred to another service through favour, but shall stick to that given him at the outset.

Commentary

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Δῆμος ἄρας μετέωρον ἐς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμβαλῶ, ἐκ τοῦ λάρυγγος ἐκκρεμάσας Ὑπέρβολον.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης τουτὶ μὲν ὀρθῶς καὶ φρονίμως ἤδη λέγεις· τὰ δʼ ἄλλα, φέρʼ ἴδω, πῶς πολιτεύσει φράσον. 1365

Δῆμος πρῶτον μὲν ὁπόσοι ναῦς ἐλαύνουσιν μακράς, καταγομένοις τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδώσω ʼντελῆ.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης πολλοῖς γʼ ὑπολίσφοις πυγιδίοισιν ἐχαρίσω.

Δῆμος ἔπειθʼ ὁπλίτης ἐντεθεὶς ἐν καταλόγῳ οὐδεὶς κατὰ σπουδὰς μετεγγραφήσεται, 1370 ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται.

Demos I would have him removed from the bar, I would bind Hyperbolus about his neck like a stone and would fling him into the Barathrum.

Sausage-Seller Well spoken! 1365 but what other measures do you wish to take?

Demos First, as soon as ever a fleet returns to the harbor, I shall pay up the rowers in full.

Sausage-Seller That will soothe many a worn and chafed bottom.

Demos Further, the hoplite enrolled for military service 1370 shall not get transferred to another service through favour, but shall stick to that given him at the outset.

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Δῆμος

ἄρας μετέωρον ἐς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμβαλῶ,

ἐκ τοῦ λάρυγγος ἐκκρεμάσας Ὑπέρβολον.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

τουτὶ μὲν ὀρθῶς καὶ φρονίμως ἤδη λέγεις·

τὰ δʼ ἄλλα, φέρʼ ἴδω, πῶς πολιτεύσει φράσον.
1365

Δῆμος

πρῶτον μὲν ὁπόσοι ναῦς ἐλαύνουσιν μακράς,

καταγομένοις τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδώσω ʼντελῆ.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

πολλοῖς γʼ ὑπολίσφοις πυγιδίοισιν ἐχαρίσω.

Δῆμος

ἔπειθʼ ὁπλίτης ἐντεθεὶς ἐν καταλόγῳ

οὐδεὶς κατὰ σπουδὰς μετεγγραφήσεται,
1370

ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται.

Demos

I would have him removed from the bar, I would bind Hyperbolus about his neck like a stone and would fling him into the Barathrum.

Sausage-Seller

Well spoken! 1365 but what other measures do you wish to take?

Demos

First, as soon as ever a fleet returns to the harbor, I shall pay up the rowers in full.

Sausage-Seller

That will soothe many a worn and chafed bottom.

Demos

Further, the hoplite enrolled for military service 1370 shall not get transferred to another service through favour, but shall stick to that given him at the outset.