Aristophanes, Peace, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 582

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Χορός

χαῖρε χαῖρʼ, ὡς ἀσμένοισιν ἦλθες, ὦ φιλτάτη.

σῷ γὰρ ἐδάμην πόθῳ, δαιμόνια βουλόμενος εἰς ἀγρὸν ἀνερπύσαι
585

ἦσθα γὰρ μέγιστον ἡμῖν κέρδος ὦ ποθουμένη

πᾶσιν ὁπόσοι γεωργὸν βίον ἐτρίβομεν.

μόνη γὰρ ἡμᾶς ὠφέλεις.
590

πολλὰ γὰρ ἐπάσχομεν πρίν ποτʼ ἐπὶ σοῦ γλυκέα κἀδάπανα καὶ φίλα.

τοῖς ἀγροίκοισιν γὰρ ἦσθα χῖδρα καὶ σωτηρία.
595

ὥστε σὲ τά τʼ ἀμπέλια καὶ τὰ νέα συκίδια

τἄλλα θʼ ὁπόσʼ ἔστι φυτὰ

προσγελάσεται λαβόντʼ ἄσμενα.
600

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.) — 582 focus

Chorus
Singing.

Hail! hail! thou beloved divinity! thy return overwhelms us with joy. 585 When far from thee, my ardent wish to see my fields again made me pine with regret. From thee came all blessings. Oh! much desired Peace! 590 thou art the sole support of those who spend their lives tilling the earth. Under thy rule we had a thousand delicious enjoyments at our beck; 595 thou wert the husbandman's wheaten cake and his safeguard. So that our vineyards, our young fig-tree woods 600 and all our plantations hail thee with delight and smile at thy coming.

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.) — 582 focus

Chorus: hail, hail, since you have come to the unharmed, most beloved one.

Chorus: For I was tamed by your longing, desiring to climb up to the field, divine one.

585

Chorus: For you were a great gain to us, O longed-for one.

Chorus: to all those whom we rubbed against the farmer's life.

Chorus: for you alone benefit us.

590

Chorus: For we suffered many things before, at some time, your sweet and costless and beloved [things].

Chorus: for you were a pest and a salvation to the country folk.

595

Chorus: so that you both the vineyards and the young fig trees

Chorus: all the other plants that there are

Chorus: He will laugh after receiving it gladly.

600

Aristophanes Peace 582

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

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