Clouds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.
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Νεφέλαι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 1105-1112 focus
Σωκράτης
τί δῆτα; πότερα τοῦτον ἀπάγεσθαι λαβὼν
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βούλει τὸν υἱόν, ἢ διδάσκω σοι λέγειν;
Στρεψιάδης
δίδασκε καὶ κόλαζε καὶ μέμνησʼ ὅπως
εὖ μοι στομώσεις αὐτόν, ἐπὶ μὲν θάτερα
οἷον δικιδίοις, τὴν δʼ ἑτέραν αὐτοῦ γνάθον
στόμωσον οἵαν ἐς τὰ μείζω πράγματα.
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Σωκράτης
ἀμέλει κομιεῖ τοῦτον σοφιστὴν δεξιόν.
Φειδιππίδης
ὠχρὸν μὲν οὖν οἶμαί γε καὶ κακοδαίμονα.
Translations (1)
Clouds Perseus (Aristophanes. The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. I. Hickie, William James, translator. Bohn: London, 1853.) — 1009 focus
Just Cause.
If you do these things which I say, and apply your mind to these, you will ever have a stout chest, a clear complexion, broad shoulders, a little tongue, large hips, little lewdness.
But if you practise what the youths of the present day do, you will have in the first place, a pallid complexion, small shoulders, a narrow chest, a large tongue, little hips, great lewdness,
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a long psephism; and this deceiver will persuade you to consider everything that is base to be honourable, and what is honourable to be base; and in addition to this, he will fill you with the lewdness of Antimachus.
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