Aristophanes, Peace, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 651

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Τρυγαῖος

ἅττʼ ἂν οὖν λέγῃς ἐκεῖνον,

κεἰ πανοῦργος ἦν, ὅτʼ ἔζη,

καὶ λάλος καὶ συκοφάντης

καὶ κύκηθρον καὶ τάρακτρον,

ταῦθʼ ἁπαξάπαντα νυνὶ
655

τοὺς σεαυτοῦ λοιδορεῖς.

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.) — 651 focus

Trygaeus

That he was a cheat, a braggart, a calumniator when alive, why, nothing could be truer; 655 but anything you might say now would be an insult to one of your own folk.

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.) — 651 focus

Trygaeus: Well, then, what would you say about him,

Trygaeus: And he was cunning, while he lived,

Trygaeus: both talkative and a slanderer.

Trygaeus: and a turnip and a pestle,

Trygaeus: all this at once now

655

Trygaeus: You abuse your own people.

Aristophanes Peace 651

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

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Trygaeus

That he was a cheat, a braggart, a calumniator when alive, why, nothing could be truer; 655 but anything you might say now would be an insult to one of your own folk.

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Trygaeus That he was a cheat, a braggart, a calumniator when alive, why, nothing could be truer; 655 but anything you might say now would be an insult to one of your own folk.

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Trygaeus

That he was a cheat, a braggart, a calumniator when alive, why, nothing could be truer; 655 but anything you might say now would be an insult to one of your own folk.