Aristophanes Peace 1011

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Peace. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (English) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Εἰρήνη Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 922-1126 focus
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Peace (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1016 focus
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.) — 1016 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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τὰς δὲ πεπρᾶσθαι, τὸν δʼ ὀτοτύζειν,
The construction τὰς δὲ πεπρᾶσθαι (feminine plural accusative participle) followed by τὸν δʼ ὀτοτύζειν (masculine singular accusative participle) presents a striking case of the 'sympathetic' or 'attracted' accusative in indirect discourse or a dependent clause where the subjects differ in gender and number from the implied governing verb (likely ἔφη or ἔλεγον, 'he/she said'). Here, Aristophanes juxtaposes the fate of the women (ἔθνεσι τῶν Ἑλλήνων πεπρᾶσθαι, 'to be sold') with that of the man (ὀτοτύζειν, 'to be beaten'), compressing two distinct accusative subjects into a single syntactic frame. While the accusative + infinitive is standard, the attraction of the participle to the gender/number of the object it describes (the women being sold, the man being beaten) without a clear governing verb in the immediate context is a marked rhetorical device, emphasizing the parallel suffering of the two groups. This is not a routine accusative-infinitive but a deliberate syntactic compression to heighten the comic contrast.