Aristophanes Peace 1178

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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.) — 1191-1304 focus
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.) — 1172 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.) — 1172 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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τοὺς λόφους σείων· ἐγὼ δʼ ἕστηκα †λινοπτώμενος.†
The text presents a notorious crux at †λινοπτώμενος†, a hapax legomenon in Aristophanes and arguably the entire corpus of extant comedy. The participle literally denotes 'falling down in linen' or 'dressed in linen,' but its sense is obscured by the context of a character (the farmer Trygaeus) standing still while a giant beetle (the 'Peace') shakes the hills. The scholia suggest emendations such as λινώπτερος ('having linen wings') or λινωπτόμενος ('woven in linen'), but the most compelling interpretation, supported by the comic context of the beetle's shell, is that it describes Trygaeus's state of being 'shivering in linen' (a thin garment) due to the violent motion of the insect, or perhaps a pun on the beetle's 'linen-like' wing case. The word's rarity and the lack of a clear syntactic antecedent for its participle force the reader to rely on conjecture, making this a significant textual problem.