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Chorus: Surely, then, isn't it from the beginning that you have shown your shamelessness,

Chorus: She who alone protects the orators?

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Chorus: With which you, trusting, milk the profits from the foreigners,

Chorus: being first; but Hippodamos is being poured out while looking.

Chorus: But a different man has appeared, a much greater one.

Chorus: More foul than you, so that I take my leave,

Chorus: the one who will stop you and will take you away, he is clearly from that very place,

330

Chorus: by cunning and by boldness

Chorus: and with cobbling.

Knights. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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English (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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Ἱππῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 323 focus

Χορός

ἆρα δῆτʼ οὐκ ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς ἐδήλους ἀναίδειαν,

ἥπερ μόνη προστατεῖ ῥητόρων;
325

ᾗ σὺ πιστεύων ἀμέλγεις τῶν ξένων τοὺς καρπίμους,

πρῶτος ὤν· ὁ δʼ Ἱπποδάμου λείβεται θεώμενος.

ἀλλʼ ἐφάνη γὰρ ἀνὴρ ἕτερος πολὺ

σοῦ μιαρώτερος, ὥστε με χαίρειν,

ὅς σε παύσει καὶ πάρεισι, δῆλός ἐστιν αὐτόθεν,
330

πανουργίᾳ τε καὶ θράσει

καὶ κοβαλικεύμασιν.

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.) — 323 focus

Chorus
singing

Have you not always shown that blatant 325 impudence, which is the sole strength of our orators? You push it so far, that you, the head of the State, dare to milk the purses of the opulent aliens and, at sight of you, the son of Hippodamus melts into tears. But here is another man who gives me pleasure, for he is a much greater rascal than you; 330 he will overthrow you; 'tis easy to see, that he will beat you in roguery, in brazenness and in clever turns.

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ᾗ σὺ πιστεύων ἀμέλγεις τῶν ξένων τοὺς καρπίμους,

The participle πιστεύων (trusting) is used in the dative of means or instrument with the verb ἀμέλγεις (milking), a construction where the trust is the mechanism by which the exploitation occurs. This is a rare syntactic usage for a participle of trust, which typically governs a dative of the person trusted or an infinitive, rather than functioning as the instrumental means of the main verb's action in this specific metaphorical sense.

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σοῦ μιαρώτερος, ὥστε με χαίρειν,

The phrase ὥστε με χαίρειν functions as an elliptical idiom where the main verb (e.g., 'go away' or 'leave me') is omitted. While ὥστε with the infinitive typically indicates result ('so that I may...'), here it serves as a fixed formula for dismissal, meaning 'so that I bid you farewell' or simply 'goodbye'. The construction relies on the implied verb χαίρειν (to bid farewell) taking the accusative of the person being dismissed, a usage distinct from the more common intransitive 'to be well' or the imperative 'χαῖρε'.

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