Aristophanes Clouds 1386

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

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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.) — 1386 focus
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.) — 1386 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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χεζητιῴην, οὐκ ἔτλης
The form χεζητιῴην is a rare Doric aorist optative of ζητέω (or possibly a dialectal variant of ζητήσοιμι), reflecting the strong Doric coloring of Aristophanes' comic dialogue here; the juxtaposition of this optative with the aorist indicative ἔτλης creates a syntactic tension that may signal a shift from wishful thinking to immediate reproach, a feature characteristic of Aristophanic dialogue where grammatical mood often tracks the speaker's rhetorical pivot.