Aristophanes, Wasps, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 1051

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Χορός

ἀλλὰ τὸ λοιπὸν τῶν ποιητῶν

ὦ δαιμόνιοι τοὺς ζητοῦντας

καινόν τι λέγειν κἀξευρίσκειν

στέργετε μᾶλλον καὶ θεραπεύετε,

καὶ τὰ νοήματα σῴζεσθʼ αὐτῶν,
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ἐσβάλλετέ τʼ ἐς τὰς κιβωτοὺς

μετὰ τῶν μήλων. κἂν ταῦτα ποιῆθʼ,

ὑμῖν διʼ ἔτους τῶν ἱματίων

ὀζήσει δεξιότητος.

Wasps. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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

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Wasps (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1051 focus

Leader of the Chorus
With increasing excitement

But in future, my dear fellow-citizens, love and honour more those of your poets who seek to imagine and express 1055 some new thought. Make their ideas your own, keep them in your caskets like sweet-scented fruit. If you do, your clothing will emit an odour of wisdom the whole year through.

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.) — 1051 focus

Chorus: but from now on, of the poets

Chorus: O you wretches, you who are looking for!

Chorus: to say something new and to invent it.

Chorus: Love them more and serve them,

Chorus: And preserve their thoughts!

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Chorus: Throw them into the coffers!

Chorus: with the apples. And if these things are done,

Chorus: For you, once a year, the clothes

Chorus: It will smell of cleverness.

Aristophanes Wasps 1051

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

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