Aristophanes, Clouds, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 1303

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Χορός

οἷον τὸ πραγμάτων ἐρᾶν φλαύρων· ὁ γὰρ

γέρων ὅδʼ ἐρασθεὶς

ἀποστερῆσαι βούλεται
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τὰ χρήμαθʼ ἁδανείσατο·

κοὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅπως οὐ τήμερον

λήψεταί τι πρᾶγμʼ, ὃ τοῦτον

ποιήσει τὸν σοφιστὴν ἴσως,

ἀνθʼ ὧν πανουργεῖν ἤρξατʼ, ἐξαίφνης λαβεῖν κακόν τι.
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Clouds. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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Νεφέλαι (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.)

Translations (2)

Clouds Perseus (Aristophanes. The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. I. Hickie, William James, translator. Bohn: London, 1853.) — 1303 focus

Chorus.

What a thing it is to love evil courses! For this old man, having loved them,

wishes to withhold the money that he borrowed. And he will certainly meet with something today, which will perhaps cause this sophist
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to suddenly receive some misfortune, in return for the knaveries he has begun.
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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.) — 1303 focus

Chorus: such is the love of trivial matters; for the

Chorus: This old man, having fallen in love,

Chorus: he wishes to rob

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Chorus: He borrowed the money.

Chorus: and it is not possible that not today.

Chorus: He will take some matter, which this man

Chorus: perhaps he will make the sophist,

Chorus: for which reasons you began to act cunningly, suddenly to suffer some evil.

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Aristophanes Clouds 1303

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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