Aristophanes, Knights, 314

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Cleon: I know this matter from where it has long been beaten into shape.

Sausage-seller: If, then, you don't know the little tricks, I don't know the strings either,

315

Sausage-seller: whoever you are, when you cut off the skin of a wretched ox

Sausage-seller: slyly to the country bumpkins, so as to appear thick,

Sausage-seller: And even before daybreak it was bigger than two fistfuls.

Demosthenes: By Zeus, he did the same thing to me, so that I am an object of ridicule.

Demosthenes: to provide a very great amount to the citizens and friends;

320

Demosthenes: for before there was a Pergasian, there was one in the embases.

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.) — 314 focus

Κλέων

οἶδʼ ἐγὼ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅθεν πάλαι καττύεται.

Ἀλλαντοπώλης

εἰ δὲ μὴ σύ γʼ οἶσθα κάττυμʼ, οὐδʼ ἐγὼ χορδεύματα,
315

ὅστις ὑποτέμνων ἐπώλεις δέρμα μοχθηροῦ βοὸς

τοῖς ἀγροίκοισιν πανούργως, ὥστε φαίνεσθαι παχύ,

καὶ πρὶν ἡμέραν φορῆσαι μεῖζον ἦν δυοῖν δοχμαῖν.

Δημοσθένης

νὴ Δία κἀμὲ τοῦτʼ ἔδρασε ταὐτόν, ὥστε κατάγελων

πάμπολυν τοῖς δημόταισι καὶ φίλοις παρασχεθεῖν·
320

πρὶν γὰρ εἶναι Περγασῆσιν ἔνεον ἐν ταῖς ἐμβάσιν.

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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.) — 314 focus

Cleon
somewhat less loudly

I know your tricks; it's an old plot resoled.

Sausage-Seller

315 If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels. They had not worn it a day before it had stretched some two spans.

Demosthenes

That's the very trick he played on me; 320 both my neighbors and my friends laughed heartily at me, and before I reached Pergasae I was swimming in my shoes.

Aristophanes Knights 314

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Κλέων

οἶδʼ ἐγὼ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅθεν πάλαι καττύεται.

Cleon
somewhat less loudly

I know your tricks; it's an old plot resoled.

Sausage-Seller

315 If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels. They had not worn it a day before it had stretched some two spans.

Demosthenes

That's the very trick he played on me; 320 both my neighbors and my friends laughed heartily at me, and before I reached Pergasae I was swimming in my shoes.

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Κλέων οἶδʼ ἐγὼ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅθεν πάλαι καττύεται.

Cleon somewhat less loudly I know your tricks; it's an old plot resoled.

Sausage-Seller 315 If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels. They had not worn it a day before it had stretched some two spans.

Demosthenes That's the very trick he played on me; 320 both my neighbors and my friends laughed heartily at me, and before I reached Pergasae I was swimming in my shoes.

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Κλέων

οἶδʼ ἐγὼ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅθεν πάλαι καττύεται.

Cleon
somewhat less loudly

I know your tricks; it's an old plot resoled.

Sausage-Seller

315 If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels. They had not worn it a day before it had stretched some two spans.

Demosthenes

That's the very trick he played on me; 320 both my neighbors and my friends laughed heartily at me, and before I reached Pergasae I was swimming in my shoes.