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Ἱεροκλῆς

ἔγχει δὴ κἀμοὶ καὶ σπλάγχνων μοῖραν ὄρεξον.
1105

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ οὔπω τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ φίλον μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν·

ἀλλὰ τόδε πρότερον, σπένδειν ἡμᾶς, σὲ δʼ ἀπελθεῖν.

ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη παράμεινον τὸν βίον ἡμῖν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

πρόσφερε τὴν γλῶτταν.

Τρυγαῖος

σὺ δὲ τὴν σαυτοῦ γʼ ἀπένεγκε.

Ἱεροκλῆς

σπονδή.
1110

Τρυγαῖος

καὶ ταυτὶ μετὰ τῆς σπονδῆς λαβὲ θᾶττον.

Ἱεροκλῆς

οὐδεὶς προσδώσει τῶν σπλάγχνων;

Τρυγαῖος

οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε

ἡμῖν προσδιδόναι, πρίν κεν λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ.

Ἱεροκλῆς

ναὶ πρὸς τῶν γονάτων.

Τρυγαῖος

ἄλλως ὦ τᾶν ἱκετεύεις·

οὐ γὰρ ποιήσεις λεῖον τὸν τραχὺν ἐχῖνον.

Τρυγαῖος

ἄγε δὴ θεαταὶ δεῦρο συσπλαγχνεύετε
1115

μετὰ νῷν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

τί δὴ ʼγώ;

Τρυγαῖος

τὴν Σίβυλλαν ἔσθιε.

Ἱεροκλῆς

οὔτοι μὰ τὴν γῆν ταῦτα κατέδεσθον μόνω,

ἀλλʼ ἁρπάσομαι σφῷν αὐτά· κεῖται δʼ ἐν μέσῳ.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ παῖε τὸν Βάκιν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

μαρτύρομαι.

Τρυγαῖος

κἄγωγʼ ὅτι τένθης εἶ σὺ κἀλαζὼν ἀνήρ.
1120

παἶ αὐτὸν ἐπέχων τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν ἀλαζόνα.

Οἰκέτης

σὺ μὲν οὖν· ἐγὼ δὲ τουτονὶ τῶν κῳδίων,

ἁλάμβανʼ αὐτὸς ἐξαπατῶν, ἐκβολβιῶ.

οὐ καταβαλεῖς τὰ κῴδιʼ ὦ θυηπόλε;

ἤκουσας; ὁ κόραξ οἷος ἦλθʼ ἐξ Ὠρεοῦ.
1125

οὐκ ἀποπετήσει θᾶττον εἰς Ἐλύμνιον;

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

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

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Hierocles
To the Servant.

1105 Pour out also for me and give me some of this meat.

Trygaeus

No, the blessed gods won't allow it yet; let us drink; and as for you, get you gone, for that's their will. Mighty Peace! stay ever in our midst.

Hierocles

Bring the tongue hither.

Trygaeus

Relieve us of your own.

Hierocles

1110 The libation.

Trygaeus

Here! and this into the bargain.

He strikes him.

Hierocles

You will not give me any meat?

Trygaeus

We cannot give you any until the wolf unites with the sheep.

Hierocles

I will embrace your knees.

Trygaeus

'Tis lost labour, good fellow; you will never smooth the rough spikes of the hedgehog. 1115 Come, spectators, join us in our feast.

Hierocles

And what am I to do?

Trygaeus

You? go and eat the Sibyl.

Hierocles

No, by the Earth! no, you shall not eat without me; if you do not give, I shall take; it's common property.

Trygaeus
To the Servant.

Strike, strike this Bacis, this humbugging soothsayer.

Hierocles

I take to witness—

Trygaeus

1120 And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor. To the Servant.Hold him tight and I'll beat the impostor with a stick.

Servant

You look to that; I will snatch the skin from him which he has stolen from us. Let go that skin, you priest from hell! 1125 do you hear! Oh! what a fine crow has come from Oreus! Won't you stretch your wings quickly for Elymnium? Hierocles flees. Trygaeus and the Servant go into the house.

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.) — 1105 focus

Hieroclés: Give me a knife too and offer me a share of the entrails.

1105

Trygaeus: but it is not yet dear to the blessed gods;

Trygaeus: But first, let us make a sacrifice, and you go away.

Trygaeus: Oh mistress Peace, remain with us for our lives.

Hieroikles: offer the tongue.

Trygaeus: But you, carry off your own.

Hierocles: A libation.

1110

Trygaeus: And take this too, along with the truce, quickly.

Hierocles: No one will give me the entrails?

Trygaeus: for it is not possible.

Trygaeus: We must be given [it], before a wolf can woo the woman.

Hieroacles: Yes, by the knees.

Trygaeus: You are begging in a strange way, by Zeus!

Trygaeus: For you will not make the rough hedgehog smooth.

Trygaeus: Come now, spectators, come here and feel compassion.

1115

Trygaeus: with us.

Hieroclēs: But why, am I the one?

Trygaeus: Eat the Sibyl.

Hierocles: By the earth, these things were not bound by me alone,

Hierocles: But I will snatch them from you two; they are lying in the middle.

Trygaeus: O boy, hit Bacinus.

Hiero-klês: I call [you] to witness.

Trygaeus: And I, that you are a thistle and a thorn, man.

1120

Trygaeus: Hold him back with the piece of wood, boy, the braggart.

Servant: Then you, then; but as for me, this fellow of the clowns,

Servant: Take him while he is deceiving, and beat him.

Slave: 'Aren't you going to put down the cymbals, you sacrilegious wretch?'

Servant: Did you hear? How the raven came from Oreus.

1125

Servant: Will he not fly away more quickly to Elymnium?

Commentary

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ἁλάμβανʼ αὐτὸς ἐξαπατῶν, ἐκβολβιῶ.

The imperative ἁλάμβανʼ (from ἁλίσκομαι, 'to catch' or 'to take') is here used in a middle voice form with an active sense of 'take for yourself,' a usage common in comedy but syntactically notable given the verb's typical middle-passive morphology. The compound verb ἐκβολβιῶ is a comic coinage, likely derived from βόλος ('ball' or 'clod') with the prefix ἐκ-, suggesting 'to throw out' or 'to expel' in a grotesque or exaggerated manner. This neologism reflects Aristophanes' characteristic invention of vocabulary to evoke the absurdity of the situation, where Trygaeus, the protagonist, is urging his companion to seize the goddess Peace while deceivingly acting out a role. The phrase thus combines a rare syntactic usage with a lexical invention typical of Old Comedy's linguistic play.

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Ἱεροκλῆς ἔγχει δὴ κἀμοὶ καὶ σπλάγχνων μοῖραν ὄρεξον. 1105

Τρυγαῖος ἀλλʼ οὔπω τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ φίλον μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν· ἀλλὰ τόδε πρότερον, σπένδειν ἡμᾶς, σὲ δʼ ἀπελθεῖν. ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη παράμεινον τὸν βίον ἡμῖν.

Ἱεροκλῆς πρόσφερε τὴν γλῶτταν.

Τρυγαῖος σὺ δὲ τὴν σαυτοῦ γʼ ἀπένεγκε.

Ἱεροκλῆς σπονδή. 1110

Τρυγαῖος καὶ ταυτὶ μετὰ τῆς σπονδῆς λαβὲ θᾶττον.

Ἱεροκλῆς οὐδεὶς προσδώσει τῶν σπλάγχνων;

Τρυγαῖος οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε ἡμῖν προσδιδόναι, πρίν κεν λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ.

Ἱεροκλῆς ναὶ πρὸς τῶν γονάτων.

Τρυγαῖος ἄλλως ὦ τᾶν ἱκετεύεις· οὐ γὰρ ποιήσεις λεῖον τὸν τραχὺν ἐχῖνον.

Τρυγαῖος ἄγε δὴ θεαταὶ δεῦρο συσπλαγχνεύετε 1115 μετὰ νῷν.

Ἱεροκλῆς τί δὴ ʼγώ;

Τρυγαῖος τὴν Σίβυλλαν ἔσθιε.

Ἱεροκλῆς οὔτοι μὰ τὴν γῆν ταῦτα κατέδεσθον μόνω, ἀλλʼ ἁρπάσομαι σφῷν αὐτά· κεῖται δʼ ἐν μέσῳ.

Τρυγαῖος ὦ παῖε τὸν Βάκιν.

Ἱεροκλῆς μαρτύρομαι.

Τρυγαῖος κἄγωγʼ ὅτι τένθης εἶ σὺ κἀλαζὼν ἀνήρ. 1120 παἶ αὐτὸν ἐπέχων τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν ἀλαζόνα.

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Hierocles To the Servant. 1105 Pour out also for me and give me some of this meat.

Trygaeus No, the blessed gods won't allow it yet; let us drink; and as for you, get you gone, for that's their will. Mighty Peace! stay ever in our midst.

Hierocles Bring the tongue hither.

Trygaeus Relieve us of your own.

Hierocles 1110 The libation.

Trygaeus Here! and this into the bargain. He strikes him.

Hierocles You will not give me any meat?

Trygaeus We cannot give you any until the wolf unites with the sheep.

Hierocles I will embrace your knees.

Trygaeus 'Tis lost labour, good fellow; you will never smooth the rough spikes of the hedgehog. 1115 Come, spectators, join us in our feast.

Hierocles And what am I to do?

Trygaeus You? go and eat the Sibyl.

Hierocles No, by the Earth! no, you shall not eat without me; if you do not give, I shall take; it's common property.

Trygaeus To the Servant. Strike, strike this Bacis, this humbugging soothsayer.

Hierocles I take to witness—

Trygaeus 1120 And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor. To the Servant.Hold him tight and I'll beat the impostor with a stick.

Servant You look to that; I will snatch the skin from him which he has stolen from us. Let go that skin, you priest from hell! 1125 do you hear! Oh! what a fine crow has come from Oreus! Won't you stretch your wings quickly for Elymnium? Hierocles flees. Trygaeus and the Servant go into the house.

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Stable identifiers

Ἱεροκλῆς

ἔγχει δὴ κἀμοὶ καὶ σπλάγχνων μοῖραν ὄρεξον.
1105

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ οὔπω τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ φίλον μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν·

ἀλλὰ τόδε πρότερον, σπένδειν ἡμᾶς, σὲ δʼ ἀπελθεῖν.

ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη παράμεινον τὸν βίον ἡμῖν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

πρόσφερε τὴν γλῶτταν.

Τρυγαῖος

σὺ δὲ τὴν σαυτοῦ γʼ ἀπένεγκε.

Ἱεροκλῆς

σπονδή.
1110

Τρυγαῖος

καὶ ταυτὶ μετὰ τῆς σπονδῆς λαβὲ θᾶττον.

Ἱεροκλῆς

οὐδεὶς προσδώσει τῶν σπλάγχνων;

Τρυγαῖος

οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε

ἡμῖν προσδιδόναι, πρίν κεν λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ.

Ἱεροκλῆς

ναὶ πρὸς τῶν γονάτων.

Τρυγαῖος

ἄλλως ὦ τᾶν ἱκετεύεις·

οὐ γὰρ ποιήσεις λεῖον τὸν τραχὺν ἐχῖνον.

Τρυγαῖος

ἄγε δὴ θεαταὶ δεῦρο συσπλαγχνεύετε
1115

μετὰ νῷν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

τί δὴ ʼγώ;

Τρυγαῖος

τὴν Σίβυλλαν ἔσθιε.

Ἱεροκλῆς

οὔτοι μὰ τὴν γῆν ταῦτα κατέδεσθον μόνω,

ἀλλʼ ἁρπάσομαι σφῷν αὐτά· κεῖται δʼ ἐν μέσῳ.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ παῖε τὸν Βάκιν.

Ἱεροκλῆς

μαρτύρομαι.

Τρυγαῖος

κἄγωγʼ ὅτι τένθης εἶ σὺ κἀλαζὼν ἀνήρ.
1120

παἶ αὐτὸν ἐπέχων τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν ἀλαζόνα.

Hierocles
To the Servant.

1105 Pour out also for me and give me some of this meat.

Trygaeus

No, the blessed gods won't allow it yet; let us drink; and as for you, get you gone, for that's their will. Mighty Peace! stay ever in our midst.

Hierocles

Bring the tongue hither.

Trygaeus

Relieve us of your own.

Hierocles

1110 The libation.

Trygaeus

Here! and this into the bargain.

He strikes him.

Hierocles

You will not give me any meat?

Trygaeus

We cannot give you any until the wolf unites with the sheep.

Hierocles

I will embrace your knees.

Trygaeus

'Tis lost labour, good fellow; you will never smooth the rough spikes of the hedgehog. 1115 Come, spectators, join us in our feast.

Hierocles

And what am I to do?

Trygaeus

You? go and eat the Sibyl.

Hierocles

No, by the Earth! no, you shall not eat without me; if you do not give, I shall take; it's common property.

Trygaeus
To the Servant.

Strike, strike this Bacis, this humbugging soothsayer.

Hierocles

I take to witness—

Trygaeus

1120 And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor. To the Servant.Hold him tight and I'll beat the impostor with a stick.

Servant

You look to that; I will snatch the skin from him which he has stolen from us. Let go that skin, you priest from hell! 1125 do you hear! Oh! what a fine crow has come from Oreus! Won't you stretch your wings quickly for Elymnium? Hierocles flees. Trygaeus and the Servant go into the house.