Aristophanes, Clouds, 1303

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

Chorus: This old man, having fallen in love,

Chorus: he wishes to rob

1305

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.

1310

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.) — 1303-1320 focus

Χορός

οἷον τὸ πραγμάτων ἐρᾶν φλαύρων· ὁ γὰρ

γέρων ὅδʼ ἐρασθεὶς

ἀποστερῆσαι βούλεται
1305

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.
1310

1311

Χορός

οἶμαι γὰρ αὐτὸν αὐτίχʼ εὑρήσειν ὅπερ

πάλαι ποτʼ †ἐπεζήτει†

εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν δεινόν οἱ

γνώμας ἐναντίας λέγειν

τοῖσιν δικαίοις, ὥστε νικᾶν
1315

ἅπαντας οἷσπερ ἂν

ξυγγένηται, κἂν λέγῃ παμπόνηρʼ.

ἴσως δʼ ἴσως βουλήσεται κἄφωνον αὐτὸν εἶναι.
1320

Translations (1)

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
1305

to suddenly receive some misfortune, in return for the knaveries he has begun.
1310

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