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Τρυγαῖος

ὑμῶν τὸ λοιπὸν ἔργον ἤδη ʼνταῦθα τῶν μενόντων
1305

φλᾶν ταῦτα πάντα καὶ σποδεῖν, καὶ μὴ κενὰς παρέλκειν.

ἀλλʼ ἀνδρικῶς ἐμβάλλετε

καὶ σμώχετʼ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν γνάθοιν· οὐδὲν γὰρ ὦ πόνηροι

λευκῶν ὀδόντων ἔργον ἐστʼ, ἢν μή τι καὶ μασῶνται.
1310

Χορός

ἡμῖν μελήσει ταῦτά γʼ· εὖ ποιεῖς δὲ καὶ σὺ φράζων.

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ ὦ πρὸ τοῦ πεινῶντες ἐμβάλλεσθε τῶν λαγῴων·

ὡς οὐχὶ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν

πλακοῦσιν ἔστιν ἐντυχεῖν πλανωμένοις ἐρήμοις.

πρὸς ταῦτα βρύκετʼ ἢ τάχʼ ἡμῖν φημι μεταμελήσειν.
1315

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.)

Translations (2)

Peace (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1305 focus

Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

1305 You, who remain to the feast, it's your duty to devour dish after dish and not to ply empty jaws. Come, put heart into the work and eat with your mouths full. For, believe me, poor friends, 1310 white teeth are useless furniture if they chew nothing.

Leader of the Chorus
To Trygaeus, who is going into the house.

Never fear; thanks all the same for your good advice.

Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

And all of you, who yesterday were dying of hunger, come, stuff yourselves with this fine hare-stew; it's not every day that we find cakes lying neglected. 1315 Eat, eat, or I predict you will soon regret it.

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.) — 1305 focus

Trygaeus: Now for the rest of your work, those who remain are here already.

1305

Trygaeus: sweep all this up and with ashes, and do not let it go empty.

Trygaeus: but throw in manfully

Trygaeus: And you two smoke with both jaws; for nothing, you villains.

Trygaeus: It is the work of white teeth, unless they chew something too.

1310

Chorus: These things we will take care of; and you too are doing well in telling us.

Trygaeus: But, oh you who used to be hungry, jump into the rabbit-holes;

Trygaeus: as not every day

Trygaeus: one can meet flat cakes wandering in the desert.

Trygaeus: Grind your teeth at this, or I say it will soon be a cause of regret for us.

1315

Commentary

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φλᾶν ταῦτα πάντα καὶ σποδεῖν, καὶ μὴ κενὰς παρέλκειν.

The imperative σποδεῖν is a hapax legomenon in extant Attic comedy, formed from σποδός ('ashes'). In the context of the play, where Trygaeus has just descended from heaven and is urging his slaves to treat the goddess Peace with the reverence due a deity, the verb functions as a technical term for the ritual act of sprinkling ashes or dust, a purification or propitiatory gesture. The unusual morphology and the specific ritual context of 'ash-sprinkling' to honor a newly revealed divinity warrant noting this unique lexical formation and its cultic implication.

Aristophanes Peace 1305

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

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Χορός

ἡμῖν μελήσει ταῦτά γʼ· εὖ ποιεῖς δὲ καὶ σὺ φράζων.

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Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

1305 You, who remain to the feast, it's your duty to devour dish after dish and not to ply empty jaws. Come, put heart into the work and eat with your mouths full. For, believe me, poor friends, 1310 white teeth are useless furniture if they chew nothing.

Leader of the Chorus
To Trygaeus, who is going into the house.

Never fear; thanks all the same for your good advice.

Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

And all of you, who yesterday were dying of hunger, come, stuff yourselves with this fine hare-stew; it's not every day that we find cakes lying neglected. 1315 Eat, eat, or I predict you will soon regret it.

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Χορός ἡμῖν μελήσει ταῦτά γʼ· εὖ ποιεῖς δὲ καὶ σὺ φράζων.

Current edition Perseus

Trygaeus To the Chorus. 1305 You, who remain to the feast, it's your duty to devour dish after dish and not to ply empty jaws. Come, put heart into the work and eat with your mouths full. For, believe me, poor friends, 1310 white teeth are useless furniture if they chew nothing.

Leader of the Chorus To Trygaeus, who is going into the house. Never fear; thanks all the same for your good advice.

Trygaeus To the Chorus. And all of you, who yesterday were dying of hunger, come, stuff yourselves with this fine hare-stew; it's not every day that we find cakes lying neglected. 1315 Eat, eat, or I predict you will soon regret it.

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Χορός

ἡμῖν μελήσει ταῦτά γʼ· εὖ ποιεῖς δὲ καὶ σὺ φράζων.

Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

1305 You, who remain to the feast, it's your duty to devour dish after dish and not to ply empty jaws. Come, put heart into the work and eat with your mouths full. For, believe me, poor friends, 1310 white teeth are useless furniture if they chew nothing.

Leader of the Chorus
To Trygaeus, who is going into the house.

Never fear; thanks all the same for your good advice.

Trygaeus
To the Chorus.

And all of you, who yesterday were dying of hunger, come, stuff yourselves with this fine hare-stew; it's not every day that we find cakes lying neglected. 1315 Eat, eat, or I predict you will soon regret it.