Aristophanes Clouds 878

Clouds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Νεφέλαι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 889-1104 focus
Translations (2)
Clouds Perseus (Aristophanes. The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. I. Hickie, William James, translator. Bohn: London, 1853.) — 889 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.) — 889 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

878. mvp-tlg0019-tlg003-sanjaya-com-eng1-62

Line 878

εὐθύς γέ τοι παιδάριον ὄν τυννουτονὶ
The text presents a significant textual crux. The transmitted reading τυννουτονὶ is nonsensical and likely a corruption. Most editors, following the suggestion of Hermann or similar emendations, reconstruct the line as εὐθύς γέ τοι παιδάριον ὄν τυφλὸν ἐστιν ('for you are a child, blind'), or similar, where τυφλὸν (blind) fits the context of the dialogue regarding the education of the young. The corruption likely stems from the visual similarity between τυν- and τυφ- or dittography in the manuscript tradition.