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Chorus: But I, at least, wonder at this too.
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Chorus: of the hog-music
Chorus: Right there; for they say that he, the
Chorus: boys who were constantly accompanying,
Chorus: it would be fitting only in the Doric dialect.
Chorus: often the lyre,
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Chorus: But he does not wish to learn another thing.
Chorus: And then the cithara-player?
Chorus: having been angered, he orders to lead away,
Chorus: how the boy [is] in harmony
Chorus: This one is not able to learn.
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Chorus: Unless it is in the style of bribery.
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Ἱππῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 985 focus
Χορός
ἀλλὰ καὶ τόδʼ ἔγωγε θαυμάζω
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τῆς ὑομουσίας
αὐτοῦ· φασὶ γὰρ αὐτὸν οἱ
παῖδες οἳ ξυνεφοίτων,
τὴν Δωριστὶ μόνην ἂν ἁρμόττεσθαι
θαμὰ τὴν λύραν,
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ἄλλην δʼ οὐκ ἐθέλειν μαθεῖν·
κᾆτα τὸν κιθαριστὴν
ὀργισθέντʼ ἀπάγειν κελεύειν,
ὡς ἁρμονίαν ὁ παῖς
οὗτος οὐ δύναται μαθεῖν
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ἢν μὴ Δωροδοκιστί.
ἀλλὰ καὶ τόδʼ ἔγωγε θαυμάζω
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τῆς ὑομουσίας
αὐτοῦ· φασὶ γὰρ αὐτὸν οἱ
παῖδες οἳ ξυνεφοίτων,
τὴν Δωριστὶ μόνην ἂν ἁρμόττεσθαι
θαμὰ τὴν λύραν,
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ἄλλην δʼ οὐκ ἐθέλειν μαθεῖν·
κᾆτα τὸν κιθαριστὴν
ὀργισθέντʼ ἀπάγειν κελεύειν,
ὡς ἁρμονίαν ὁ παῖς
οὗτος οὐ δύναται μαθεῖν
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ἢν μὴ Δωροδοκιστί.
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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.) — 985 focus
Chorus
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You also know what a pig's education he has had; his school-fellows can recall that he only
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liked the Dorian style and would study no other; his music-master in displeasure sent him away, saying; “This youth, in matters of harmony,
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will only learn the Dorian style because it is akin to bribery.”
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You also know what a pig's education he has had; his school-fellows can recall that he only
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liked the Dorian style and would study no other; his music-master in displeasure sent him away, saying; “This youth, in matters of harmony,
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will only learn the Dorian style because it is akin to bribery.”