Aristophanes Wasps 895

Wasps. 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)
Σφῆκες Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 891-1008b focus
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.) — 903 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.) — 903 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

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κύων Κυδαθηναιεὺς Λάβητʼ Αἰξωνέα
The name Κυδαθηναιεὺς (Kudathenaieus) is a patronymic derived from the deme Kuda (or Kydathenaion), a common practice in Old Comedy to identify dogs by their owners' deme names rather than personal names. Here, it specifically refers to the dog Labes (Λάβητʼ, accusative of Λάβης), whose owner was the Athenian citizen of the Kuda-deme. The accusative form Λάβητʼ is a crasis of Λάβην, and Αἰξωνέα (Aixonea) is the accusative of Αἰξωνεύς, another deme name, indicating that the dog Labes is being associated with or perhaps having been taken to the deme of Aixone. This usage reflects the comedic trope of assigning human civic identities to animals, a device used to satirize Athenian social and political life.