Aristophanes, Wasps, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 477

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Βδελυκλέων

νὴ Δίʼ ἦ μοι κρεῖττον ἐκστῆναι τὸ παράπαν τοῦ πατρὸς

μᾶλλον ἢ κακοῖς τοσούτοις ναυμαχεῖν ὁσημέραι.

Χορός

οὐδὲ μὴν οὐδʼ ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδʼ ἐν πηγάνῳ·
480

τοῦτο γὰρ παρεμβαλοῦμεν τῶν τριχοινίκων ἐπῶν.

ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν οὐδὲν ἀλγεῖς, ἀλλʼ ὅταν ξυνήγορος

ταὐτὰ ταῦτα σου καταντλῇ καὶ ξυνωμότας καλῇ.

Βδελυκλέων

ἆρʼ ἂν ὦ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν ὑμεῖς ἀπαλλαχθεῖτέ μου;

ἢ δέδοκταί μοι δέρεσθαι καὶ δέρειν διʼ ἡμέρας;
485

Χορός

οὐδέποτέ γʼ, οὐχ ἕως ἄν τί μου λοιπὸν ᾖ,

ὅστις ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τυραννίδʼ ὧδʼ ἐστάλης.

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.)

Translations (2)

Wasps (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 477 focus

Bdelycleon

Ah! it would be better to separate altogether from my father than to steer my boat daily through such stormy seas!

Chorus

480 Oh! you have but reached the parsley and the rue, to use the common saying. What you are suffering is nothing! but welcome the hour when the advocate shall adduce all these same arguments against you and shall summon your accomplices to give witness.

Bdelycleon

In the name of the gods! withdraw or 485 we shall fight you the whole day long.

Chorus

No, not as long as I retain an atom of breath. Ha! your desire is to tyrannize over us!

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.) — 477 focus

Bdelycleon: By Zeus, it would be better for me to have completely broken away from my father.

Bdelycleon: Rather than to fight battles at sea every day with so many disasters.

Chorus: No, indeed, it is not in the celery, nor is it in the trough;

480

Chorus: for this we shall interject from the three-cubit verses.

Chorus: But now you feel no pain, but when you are an advocate

Chorus: May the same things happen to you, and may you call conspirators.

Bdelukleon: Would you, by the gods, please go away from me?

Bdelycles: Do I think that I ought to be beating and keep on beating all day?

485

Chorus: Never, no, not until something else is mine.

Chorus: whoever of us has been stationed in this way for tyranny.

Aristophanes Wasps 477

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

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Βδελυκλέων

νὴ Δίʼ ἦ μοι κρεῖττον ἐκστῆναι τὸ παράπαν τοῦ πατρὸς

μᾶλλον ἢ κακοῖς τοσούτοις ναυμαχεῖν ὁσημέραι.

Βδελυκλέων

ἆρʼ ἂν ὦ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν ὑμεῖς ἀπαλλαχθεῖτέ μου;

ἢ δέδοκταί μοι δέρεσθαι καὶ δέρειν διʼ ἡμέρας;
485

Χορός

οὐδέποτέ γʼ, οὐχ ἕως ἄν τί μου λοιπὸν ᾖ,

ὅστις ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τυραννίδʼ ὧδʼ ἐστάλης.

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Bdelycleon

Ah! it would be better to separate altogether from my father than to steer my boat daily through such stormy seas!

Chorus

480 Oh! you have but reached the parsley and the rue, to use the common saying. What you are suffering is nothing! but welcome the hour when the advocate shall adduce all these same arguments against you and shall summon your accomplices to give witness.

Bdelycleon

In the name of the gods! withdraw or 485 we shall fight you the whole day long.

Chorus

No, not as long as I retain an atom of breath. Ha! your desire is to tyrannize over us!

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Βδελυκλέων νὴ Δίʼ ἦ μοι κρεῖττον ἐκστῆναι τὸ παράπαν τοῦ πατρὸς μᾶλλον ἢ κακοῖς τοσούτοις ναυμαχεῖν ὁσημέραι.

Βδελυκλέων ἆρʼ ἂν ὦ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν ὑμεῖς ἀπαλλαχθεῖτέ μου; ἢ δέδοκταί μοι δέρεσθαι καὶ δέρειν διʼ ἡμέρας; 485

Χορός οὐδέποτέ γʼ, οὐχ ἕως ἄν τί μου λοιπὸν ᾖ, ὅστις ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τυραννίδʼ ὧδʼ ἐστάλης.

Current edition Perseus

Bdelycleon Ah! it would be better to separate altogether from my father than to steer my boat daily through such stormy seas!

Chorus 480 Oh! you have but reached the parsley and the rue, to use the common saying. What you are suffering is nothing! but welcome the hour when the advocate shall adduce all these same arguments against you and shall summon your accomplices to give witness.

Bdelycleon In the name of the gods! withdraw or 485 we shall fight you the whole day long.

Chorus No, not as long as I retain an atom of breath. Ha! your desire is to tyrannize over us!

Stable identifiers

Βδελυκλέων

νὴ Δίʼ ἦ μοι κρεῖττον ἐκστῆναι τὸ παράπαν τοῦ πατρὸς

μᾶλλον ἢ κακοῖς τοσούτοις ναυμαχεῖν ὁσημέραι.

Βδελυκλέων

ἆρʼ ἂν ὦ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν ὑμεῖς ἀπαλλαχθεῖτέ μου;

ἢ δέδοκταί μοι δέρεσθαι καὶ δέρειν διʼ ἡμέρας;
485

Χορός

οὐδέποτέ γʼ, οὐχ ἕως ἄν τί μου λοιπὸν ᾖ,

ὅστις ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τυραννίδʼ ὧδʼ ἐστάλης.

Bdelycleon

Ah! it would be better to separate altogether from my father than to steer my boat daily through such stormy seas!

Chorus

480 Oh! you have but reached the parsley and the rue, to use the common saying. What you are suffering is nothing! but welcome the hour when the advocate shall adduce all these same arguments against you and shall summon your accomplices to give witness.

Bdelycleon

In the name of the gods! withdraw or 485 we shall fight you the whole day long.

Chorus

No, not as long as I retain an atom of breath. Ha! your desire is to tyrannize over us!