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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

1316

Χορός

εὐφημεῖν χρὴ καὶ τὴν νύμφην ἔξω τινὰ δεῦρο κομίζειν

δᾷδάς τε φέρειν, καὶ πάντα λεὼν συγχαίρειν κἀπιχορεύειν.

καὶ τὰ σκεύη πάλιν ἐς τὸν ἀγρὸν νυνὶ χρὴ πάντα κομίζειν

ὀρχησαμένους καὶ σπείσαντας καὶ Ὑπέρβολον ἐξελάσαντας,

1320

Χορός

κἀπευξαμένους τοῖσι θεοῖσιν
1320

διδόναι πλοῦτον τοῖς Ἕλλησιν,

κριθάς τε ποιεῖν ἡμᾶς πολλὰς

πάντας ὁμοίως οἶνόν τε πολύν,

σῦκά τε τρώγειν,

τάς τε γυναῖκας τίκτειν ἡμῖν,
1325

καὶ τἀγαθὰ πάνθʼ ὅσʼ ἀπωλέσαμεν

συλλέξασθαι πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς,

λῆξαί τʼ αἴθωνα σίδηρον.

Τρυγαῖος

δεῦρʼ ὦ γύναι εἰς ἀγρόν,

χὤπως μετʼ ἐμοῦ καλὴ
1330

καλῶς κατακείσει.

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

ὦ τρὶς μάκαρ ὡς δικαίως

τἀγαθὰ νῦν ἔχεις.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.
1335

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν,

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

ἀλλʼ ἀράμενοι φέρωμεν
1340

οἱ προτεταγμένοι

τὸν νυμφίον ὦνδρες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Τρυγαῖος

οἰκήσετε γοῦν καλῶς

οὐ πράγματʼ ἔχοντες, ἀλλὰ
1345

συκολογοῦντες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ἡμιχόριον Α

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τοῦ μὲν μέγα καὶ παχύ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τῆς δʼ ἡδὺ τὸ σῦκον.
1350

Τρυγαῖος

φήσεις γʼ ὅταν ἐσθίῃς

οἶνόν τε πίῃς πολύν.

Χορός

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ χαίρετε χαίρετʼ ἄνδρες,
1355

κἂν ξυνέπησθέ μοι

πλακοῦντας ἔδεσθε.

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)

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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.

Chorus
Coming out of the house.

Silence! Keep silence! Here is the bride about to appear! Take nuptial torches and let all rejoice and join in our songs.

Chorus

Then, when we have danced, clinked our cups and thrown Hyperbolus through the doorway we will carry back all our farming tools to the fields 1320 and shall pray the gods to give wealth to the Greeks and to cause us all to gather in an abundant barley harvest, enjoy a noble vintage, to grant that we may choke with good figs, 1325 that our wives may prove fruitful, that in fact we may recover all our lost blessings, and that the sparkling fire may be restored to the hearth.

Opora comes out of the house, followed by torch-bearing slaves.

Trygaeus

Come, wife, to the fields 1330 and seek, my beauty, to brighten and enliven my nights.

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

Oh! thrice happy man, who so well deserve your good fortune!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

1335 Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

What shall we do to her?

Second Half Chorus

What shall we do to her?

First Half Chorus

We will gather her kisses.

Second Half Chorus

We will gather her kisses.

First Half Chorus

But come, comrades, 1340 we who are in the first row, let us pick up the bridegroom and carry him in triumph.

Second Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus

You shall have a fine house, 1345 no cares and the finest of figs.

Second Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

The bridegroom's fig is great and thick;

First Half Chorus

1350 The bride's very soft and tender.

Trygaeus

While eating and drinking deep draughts of wine, continue to repeat:

Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus! Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus

1355 Hail, hail, my friends. All who come with me shall have cakes galore.

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

Chorus: We must keep silence and bring some bride here from outside.

Chorus: to bring torches, and all the people to rejoice and to dance.

Chorus: And now we must again bring all the equipment back to the field.

Chorus: having danced and having poured libations and having driven out Hyperbolus,

Chorus: and having prayed to the gods

1320

Chorus: to give wealth to the Greeks,

Chorus: to make many barley-cakes for us

Chorus: all alike and much wine,

Chorus: and to eat figs,

Chorus: and for us to give birth to women,

1325

Chorus: and all the good things we have lost

Chorus: let us collect again from the beginning,

Chorus: And cease the clamor of the iron.

Trygaeus: Come here, woman, to the field,

Trygaeus: And how, with me, beautiful?

1330

Trygaeus: He will be well laid out.

Trygaeus: Hymen, O Hymenaeus!

Half-Chorus B: O thrice happy, how justly!

Half-Chorus B: You now have the good things.

Half-Chorus A: Hymen, Hymen, oh.

1335

Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.

Half-Chorus A: What shall we do with her?

Half-Chorus B: What shall we do with her?

Half-Chorus A: We shall harvest her,

Half-Chorus B: We shall harvest it.

Half-Chorus A: But let us lift it up and carry it.

1340

Half-chorus A: the advance guards

Half-Chorus A: The bridegroom, men.

Half-chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus!

Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh,

Trygaeus: You will at least live well.

Trygaeus: not having affairs, but

1345

Trygaeus: fig-gatherers.

Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymen, O,

Half-Chorus A: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.

Half-Chorus B: the big one and the fat one.

Half-Chorus A: but the fig is sweet.

1350

Trygaeus: You will say, when you eat,

Trygaeus: may you drink a great deal of wine.

Chorus: Hymen, Hymen, oh,

Chorus: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.

Trygaeus: hail, hail, men,

1355

Trygaeus: And you have joined me as well.

Trygaeus: Eat pancakes.

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.

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

Τρυγαῖος δεῦρʼ ὦ γύναι εἰς ἀγρόν, χὤπως μετʼ ἐμοῦ καλὴ 1330 καλῶς κατακείσει. Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β ὦ τρὶς μάκαρ ὡς δικαίως τἀγαθὰ νῦν ἔχεις.

Ἡμιχόριον Α Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ. 1335

Ἡμιχόριον Β Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Β τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Α τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν,

Ἡμιχόριον Β τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν.

Ἡμιχόριον Α ἀλλʼ ἀράμενοι φέρωμεν 1340 οἱ προτεταγμένοι τὸν νυμφίον ὦνδρες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ἡμιχόριον Β Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Τρυγαῖος οἰκήσετε γοῦν καλῶς οὐ πράγματʼ ἔχοντες, ἀλλὰ 1345 συκολογοῦντες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ἡμιχόριον Α Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β τοῦ μὲν μέγα καὶ παχύ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α τῆς δʼ ἡδὺ τὸ σῦκον. 1350

Τρυγαῖος φήσεις γʼ ὅταν ἐσθίῃς οἶνόν τε πίῃς πολύν.

Χορός Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ, Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Τρυγαῖος ὦ χαίρετε χαίρετʼ ἄνδρες, 1355 κἂν ξυνέπησθέ μοι πλακοῦντας ἔδεσθε.

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.

Chorus Coming out of the house. Silence! Keep silence! Here is the bride about to appear! Take nuptial torches and let all rejoice and join in our songs.

Trygaeus Come, wife, to the fields 1330 and seek, my beauty, to brighten and enliven my nights.

First Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus Oh! thrice happy man, who so well deserve your good fortune!

First Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus 1335 Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus What shall we do to her?

Second Half Chorus What shall we do to her?

First Half Chorus We will gather her kisses.

Second Half Chorus We will gather her kisses.

First Half Chorus But come, comrades, 1340 we who are in the first row, let us pick up the bridegroom and carry him in triumph.

Second Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus You shall have a fine house, 1345 no cares and the finest of figs.

Second Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus The bridegroom's fig is great and thick;

First Half Chorus 1350 The bride's very soft and tender.

Trygaeus While eating and drinking deep draughts of wine, continue to repeat:

Chorus Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus! Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus 1355 Hail, hail, my friends. All who come with me shall have cakes galore.

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Stable identifiers

Χορός

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

Τρυγαῖος

δεῦρʼ ὦ γύναι εἰς ἀγρόν,

χὤπως μετʼ ἐμοῦ καλὴ
1330

καλῶς κατακείσει.

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

ὦ τρὶς μάκαρ ὡς δικαίως

τἀγαθὰ νῦν ἔχεις.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.
1335

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τί δράσομεν αὐτήν;

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν,

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τρυγήσομεν αὐτήν.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

ἀλλʼ ἀράμενοι φέρωμεν
1340

οἱ προτεταγμένοι

τὸν νυμφίον ὦνδρες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Τρυγαῖος

οἰκήσετε γοῦν καλῶς

οὐ πράγματʼ ἔχοντες, ἀλλὰ
1345

συκολογοῦντες.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ἡμιχόριον Α

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

τοῦ μὲν μέγα καὶ παχύ.

Ἡμιχόριον Α

τῆς δʼ ἡδὺ τὸ σῦκον.
1350

Τρυγαῖος

φήσεις γʼ ὅταν ἐσθίῃς

οἶνόν τε πίῃς πολύν.

Χορός

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ,

Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναιʼ ὦ.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ χαίρετε χαίρετʼ ἄνδρες,
1355

κἂν ξυνέπησθέ μοι

πλακοῦντας ἔδεσθε.

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.

Chorus
Coming out of the house.

Silence! Keep silence! Here is the bride about to appear! Take nuptial torches and let all rejoice and join in our songs.

Trygaeus

Come, wife, to the fields 1330 and seek, my beauty, to brighten and enliven my nights.

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

Oh! thrice happy man, who so well deserve your good fortune!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

1335 Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

What shall we do to her?

Second Half Chorus

What shall we do to her?

First Half Chorus

We will gather her kisses.

Second Half Chorus

We will gather her kisses.

First Half Chorus

But come, comrades, 1340 we who are in the first row, let us pick up the bridegroom and carry him in triumph.

Second Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus

You shall have a fine house, 1345 no cares and the finest of figs.

Second Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

First Half Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Second Half Chorus

The bridegroom's fig is great and thick;

First Half Chorus

1350 The bride's very soft and tender.

Trygaeus

While eating and drinking deep draughts of wine, continue to repeat:

Chorus

Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus! Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaeus!

Trygaeus

1355 Hail, hail, my friends. All who come with me shall have cakes galore.