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ἥπερ ἡμῶν τοὺς λόφους ἀφεῖλε καὶ τὰς Γοργόνας·

The phrase 'τὰς Γοργόνας' functions as a comic hyperbole for the Aeginetans. In the context of the play, Aristophanes is satirizing the Aeginetans' martial reputation and their historical piracy; by equating them with the Gorgons (monstrous female figures whose gaze turned men to stone), the poet suggests they are not merely dangerous enemies but mythical monsters. This identification relies on the specific historical rivalry between Athens and Aegina, where Aegina was often depicted as a thorn in the side of the city, and the 'lophous' (crests of enemies) refers to the spoils of war or the heads of defeated foes. The use of the plural 'Gorgons' rather than a singular is a deliberate rhetorical choice to emphasize the collective threat and the monstrous nature of the Aeginetan fleet.

Peace. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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Editions (1)

Εἰρήνη Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 657-728 focus

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ ὅ τι σιωπᾷς ὦ πότνια κάτειπέ μοι.

Ἑρμῆς

ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν εἴποι πρός γε τοὺς θεωμένους·

ὀργὴν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὧν ἔπαθε πολλὴν ἔχει.

Τρυγαῖος

ἡ δʼ ἀλλὰ πρὸς σὲ μικρὸν εἰπάτω μόνον.
660

Ἑρμῆς

εἴφʼ ὅ τι νοεῖς αὐτοῖσι πρὸς ἔμʼ ὦ φιλτάτη.

ἴθʼ ὦ γυναικῶν μισοπορπακιστάτη.

εἶεν, ἀκούω. ταῦτʼ ἐπικαλεῖς; μανθάνω.

ἀκούσαθʼ ὑμεῖς ὧν ἕνεκα μομφὴν ἔχει.

ἐλθοῦσά φησιν αὐτομάτη μετὰ τἀν Πύλῳ
665

σπονδῶν φέρουσα τῇ πόλει κίστην πλέαν

ἀποχειροτονηθῆναι τρὶς ἐν τἠκκλησίᾳ.

Τρυγαῖος

ἡμάρτομεν ταῦτʼ· ἀλλὰ συγγνώμην ἔχε·

ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἦν τότʼ ἐν τοῖς σκύτεσιν.

Ἑρμῆς

ἴθι νυν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο,
670

ὅστις κακόνους αὐτῇ μάλιστʼ ἦν ἐνθάδε,

χὤστις φίλος κἄσπευδεν εἶναι μὴ μάχας.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐνούστατος μὲν ἦν μακρῷ Κλεώνυμος.

Ἑρμῆς

ποῖός τις οὖν εἶναι δοκεῖ τὰ πολεμικὰ

ὁ Κλεώνυμος;
675

Τρυγαῖος

ψυχήν γʼ ἄριστος πλήν γʼ ὅτι

οὐκ ἦν ἄρʼ οὗπέρ φησιν εἶναι τοῦ πατρός.

εἰ γάρ ποτʼ ἐξέλθοι στρατιώτης, εὐθέως

ἀποβολιμαῖος τῶν ὅπλων ἐγίγνετο.

Ἑρμῆς

ἔτι νῦν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο,

ὅστις κρατεῖ νῦν τοῦ λίθου τοῦ ʼν τῇ πυκνί.
680

Τρυγαῖος

Ὑπέρβολος νῦν τοῦτʼ ἔχει τὸ χωρίον.

αὕτη τί ποιεῖς; τὴν κεφαλὴν ποῖ περιάγεις;

Ἑρμῆς

ἀποστρέφεται τὸν δῆμον ἀχθεσθεῖσʼ ὅτι

αὑτῷ πονηρὸν προστάτην ἐπεγράψατο.

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ αὐτῷ χρησόμεθʼ οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ νῦν
685

ἀπορῶν ὁ δῆμος ἐπιτρόπου καὶ γυμνὸς ὢν

τοῦτον τέως τὸν ἄνδρα περιεζώσατο.

Ἑρμῆς

πῶς οὖν ξυνοίσει ταῦτʼ ἐρωτᾷ τῇ πόλει.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐβουλότεροι γενησόμεθα.

Ἑρμῆς

τρόπῳ τίνι;

Τρυγαῖος

ὅτι τυγχάνει λυχνοποιὸς ὤν. πρὸ τοῦ μὲν οὖν
690

ἐψηλαφῶμεν ἐν σκότῳ τὰ πράγματα,

νυνὶ δʼ ἅπαντα πρὸς λύχνον βουλεύσομεν.

Ἑρμῆς

ὢ ὤ,

οἷά μʼ ἐκέλευσεν ἀναπυθέσθαι σου.

Τρυγαῖος

τὰ τί;

Ἑρμῆς

πάμπολλα καὶ τἀρχαῖʼ ἃ κατέλιπεν τότε·

πρῶτον δʼ ὅ τι πράττει Σοφοκλέης ἀνήρετο.
695

Τρυγαῖος

εὐδαιμονεῖ, πάσχει δὲ θαυμαστόν.

Ἑρμῆς

τὸ τί;

Τρυγαῖος

ἐκ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους γίγνεται Σιμωνίδης.

Ἑρμῆς

Σιμωνίδης; πῶς;

Τρυγαῖος

ὅτι γέρων ὢν καὶ σαπρὸς

κέρδους ἕκατι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι.

700

Ἑρμῆς

τί δαί; Κρατῖνος ὁ σοφὸς ἔστιν;
700

Τρυγαῖος

ἀπέθανεν

ὅθʼ οἱ Λάκωνες ἐνέβαλον.

Ἑρμῆς

τί παθών;

Τρυγαῖος

ὅ τι;

ὼρακιάσας· οὐ γὰρ ἐξηνέσχετο

ἰδὼν πίθον καταγνύμενον οἴνου πλέων.

χἄτερα πόσʼ ἄττʼ οἴει γεγενῆσθʼ ἐν τῇ πόλει;

ὥστʼ οὐδέποτʼ ὦ δέσποινʼ ἀφησόμεσθά σου.
705

Ἑρμῆς

ἴθι νυν ἐπὶ τούτοις τὴν Ὀπώραν λάμβανε

γυναῖκα σαυτῷ τήνδε· κᾆτʼ ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς

ταύτῃ ξυνοικῶν ἐκποιοῦ σαυτῷ βότρυς.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ φιλτάτη δεῦρʼ ἐλθὲ καὶ δός μοι κύσαι.

ἆρʼ ἂν βλαβῆναι διὰ χρόνου τί σοι δοκῶ
710

ὦ δέσποθʼ Ἑρμῆ τῆς Ὀπώρας κατελάσας;

Ἑρμῆς

οὐκ εἴ γε κυκεῶνʼ ἐπιπίοις βληχωνίαν.

ἀλλʼ ὡς τάχιστα τήνδε τὴν Θεωρίαν

ἀπάγαγε τῇ βουλῇ λαβών, ἧσπέρ ποτʼ ἦν.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ μακαρία βουλὴ σὺ τῆς Θεωρίας,
715

ὅσον ῥοφήσει ζωμὸν ἡμερῶν τριῶν,

ὅσας δὲ κατέδει ξόλικας ἑφθὰς καὶ κρέα.

ἀλλʼ ὦ φίλʼ Ἑρμῆ χαῖρε πολλά.

Ἑρμῆς

καὶ σύ γε

ὦνθρωπε χαίρων ἄπιθι καὶ μέμνησό μου.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ κάνθαρʼ οἴκαδʼ οἴκαδʼ ἀποπετώμεθα.
720

Ἑρμῆς

οὐκ ἐνθάδʼ ὦ τᾶν ἔστι.

Τρυγαῖος

ποῖ γὰρ οἴχεται;

Ἑρμῆς

ὑφʼ ἅρματʼ ἐλθὼν Ζηνὸς ἀστραπηφορεῖ.

Τρυγαῖος

πόθεν οὖν ὁ τλήμων ἐνθάδʼ ἕξει σιτία;

Ἑρμῆς

τὴν τοῦ Γανυμήδους ἀμβροσίαν σιτήσεται.

Τρυγαῖος

πῶς δῆτʼ ἐγὼ καταβήσομαι;
725

Ἑρμῆς

θάρρει, καλῶς·

τῃδὶ παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν θεόν.

Τρυγαῖος

δεῦρʼ ὦ κόραι

ἕπεσθον ἅμʼ ἐμοὶ θᾶττον, ὡς πολλοὶ πάνυ

ποθοῦντες ὑμᾶς ἀναμένουσʼ ἐστυκότες.

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.) — 551 focus

Trygaeus

Listen, good folk! Let the husbandmen take their farming tools and return to their fields as quickly as possible, but without either sword, spear or javelin. All is as quiet as if Peace had been reigning for a century. 555 Come, let everyone go and till the earth, singing the Paean.

Leader of the Chorus
To Peace.

Oh, thou, whom men of standing desired and who art good to husbandmen, I have gazed upon thee with delight; and now I go to greet my vines, to caress after so long an absence the fig trees I planted in my youth.

Trygaeus

560 Friends, let us first adore the goddess, who has delivered us from crests and Gorgons; then let us hurry to our farms, having first bought a nice little piece of salt fish to eat in the fields.

Hermes

By Poseidon! what a fine crew they make 565 and dense as the crust of a cake; they are as nimble as guests on their way to a feast.

Trygaeus

See, how their iron spades glitter and how beautifully their three-pronged mattocks glisten in the sun! How regularly they align the plants! I also burn to go into the country 570 and to turn over the earth I have so long neglected. —

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.) — 551 focus

Trygaeus: Listen, you people! The farmers are leaving.

Trygaeus: taking the agricultural tools into the field.

Trygaeus: as quickly as possible, without a spear, a sword, or a javelin.

Trygaeus: how everything here is already full of rotten peace.

Trygaeus: But let everyone march off to work in the field, strumming the lyre.

555

Chorus: O day longed for by the just and by the farmers,

Chorus: I wish to address the vines, having seen you with joy,

Chorus: both the fig trees, which I used to plant when I was younger,

Chorus: Our heart longs to embrace after so long a time.

Trygaeus: Now then, men, let us first pray to the goddess,

560

Trygaeus: which took away our hills and the Gorgons;

Trygaeus: Then, so that we may go home to the fields,

Trygaeus: They have bought a good pickle to put in the field.

Hermes: O Poseidon, how beautiful their crowd appears!

Hermes: and thick and swift, like a cake and a feast.

565

Trygaeus: By Zeus, for the mallet was, I suppose, well armed.

Trygaeus: And the reeds sparkle in the sun.

Trygaeus: He would surely get rid of them as a leaseholder.

Trygaeus: So now I myself also desire to go to the country.

Trygaeus: and [he is] piercing the mole with the pitchfork through a long time.

570

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Τρυγαῖος ἀλλʼ ὅ τι σιωπᾷς ὦ πότνια κάτειπέ μοι.

Ἑρμῆς ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν εἴποι πρός γε τοὺς θεωμένους· ὀργὴν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὧν ἔπαθε πολλὴν ἔχει.

Τρυγαῖος ἡ δʼ ἀλλὰ πρὸς σὲ μικρὸν εἰπάτω μόνον. 660

Τρυγαῖος ἡμάρτομεν ταῦτʼ· ἀλλὰ συγγνώμην ἔχε· ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἦν τότʼ ἐν τοῖς σκύτεσιν.

Ἑρμῆς ἴθι νυν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο, 670 ὅστις κακόνους αὐτῇ μάλιστʼ ἦν ἐνθάδε, χὤστις φίλος κἄσπευδεν εἶναι μὴ μάχας.

Τρυγαῖος εὐνούστατος μὲν ἦν μακρῷ Κλεώνυμος.

Ἑρμῆς ποῖός τις οὖν εἶναι δοκεῖ τὰ πολεμικὰ ὁ Κλεώνυμος; 675

Τρυγαῖος ψυχήν γʼ ἄριστος πλήν γʼ ὅτι οὐκ ἦν ἄρʼ οὗπέρ φησιν εἶναι τοῦ πατρός. εἰ γάρ ποτʼ ἐξέλθοι στρατιώτης, εὐθέως ἀποβολιμαῖος τῶν ὅπλων ἐγίγνετο.

Ἑρμῆς ἔτι νῦν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο, ὅστις κρατεῖ νῦν τοῦ λίθου τοῦ ʼν τῇ πυκνί. 680

Τρυγαῖος Ὑπέρβολος νῦν τοῦτʼ ἔχει τὸ χωρίον. αὕτη τί ποιεῖς; τὴν κεφαλὴν ποῖ περιάγεις;

Ἑρμῆς ἀποστρέφεται τὸν δῆμον ἀχθεσθεῖσʼ ὅτι αὑτῷ πονηρὸν προστάτην ἐπεγράψατο.

Τρυγαῖος ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ αὐτῷ χρησόμεθʼ οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ νῦν 685 ἀπορῶν ὁ δῆμος ἐπιτρόπου καὶ γυμνὸς ὢν τοῦτον τέως τὸν ἄνδρα περιεζώσατο.

Ἑρμῆς πῶς οὖν ξυνοίσει ταῦτʼ ἐρωτᾷ τῇ πόλει.

Τρυγαῖος εὐβουλότεροι γενησόμεθα.

Ἑρμῆς τρόπῳ τίνι;

Τρυγαῖος ὅτι τυγχάνει λυχνοποιὸς ὤν. πρὸ τοῦ μὲν οὖν 690 ἐψηλαφῶμεν ἐν σκότῳ τὰ πράγματα, νυνὶ δʼ ἅπαντα πρὸς λύχνον βουλεύσομεν.

Ἑρμῆς ὢ ὤ, οἷά μʼ ἐκέλευσεν ἀναπυθέσθαι σου.

Τρυγαῖος τὰ τί;

Ἑρμῆς πάμπολλα καὶ τἀρχαῖʼ ἃ κατέλιπεν τότε· πρῶτον δʼ ὅ τι πράττει Σοφοκλέης ἀνήρετο. 695

Τρυγαῖος εὐδαιμονεῖ, πάσχει δὲ θαυμαστόν.

Ἑρμῆς τὸ τί;

Τρυγαῖος ἐκ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους γίγνεται Σιμωνίδης.

Ἑρμῆς Σιμωνίδης; πῶς;

Τρυγαῖος ὅτι γέρων ὢν καὶ σαπρὸς κέρδους ἕκατι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι.

Ἑρμῆς τί δαί; Κρατῖνος ὁ σοφὸς ἔστιν; 700

Τρυγαῖος ἀπέθανεν ὅθʼ οἱ Λάκωνες ἐνέβαλον.

Ἑρμῆς τί παθών;

Ἑρμῆς ἴθι νυν ἐπὶ τούτοις τὴν Ὀπώραν λάμβανε γυναῖκα σαυτῷ τήνδε· κᾆτʼ ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς ταύτῃ ξυνοικῶν ἐκποιοῦ σαυτῷ βότρυς.

Τρυγαῖος ὦ φιλτάτη δεῦρʼ ἐλθὲ καὶ δός μοι κύσαι. ἆρʼ ἂν βλαβῆναι διὰ χρόνου τί σοι δοκῶ 710 ὦ δέσποθʼ Ἑρμῆ τῆς Ὀπώρας κατελάσας;

Ἑρμῆς οὐκ εἴ γε κυκεῶνʼ ἐπιπίοις βληχωνίαν. ἀλλʼ ὡς τάχιστα τήνδε τὴν Θεωρίαν ἀπάγαγε τῇ βουλῇ λαβών, ἧσπέρ ποτʼ ἦν.

Τρυγαῖος ὦ μακαρία βουλὴ σὺ τῆς Θεωρίας, 715 ὅσον ῥοφήσει ζωμὸν ἡμερῶν τριῶν, ὅσας δὲ κατέδει ξόλικας ἑφθὰς καὶ κρέα. ἀλλʼ ὦ φίλʼ Ἑρμῆ χαῖρε πολλά.

Ἑρμῆς καὶ σύ γε ὦνθρωπε χαίρων ἄπιθι καὶ μέμνησό μου.

Τρυγαῖος ὦ κάνθαρʼ οἴκαδʼ οἴκαδʼ ἀποπετώμεθα. 720

Ἑρμῆς οὐκ ἐνθάδʼ ὦ τᾶν ἔστι.

Τρυγαῖος ποῖ γὰρ οἴχεται;

Ἑρμῆς ὑφʼ ἅρματʼ ἐλθὼν Ζηνὸς ἀστραπηφορεῖ.

Τρυγαῖος πόθεν οὖν ὁ τλήμων ἐνθάδʼ ἕξει σιτία;

Ἑρμῆς τὴν τοῦ Γανυμήδους ἀμβροσίαν σιτήσεται.

Τρυγαῖος πῶς δῆτʼ ἐγὼ καταβήσομαι; 725

Ἑρμῆς θάρρει, καλῶς· τῃδὶ παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν θεόν.

Τρυγαῖος δεῦρʼ ὦ κόραι ἕπεσθον ἅμʼ ἐμοὶ θᾶττον, ὡς πολλοὶ πάνυ ποθοῦντες ὑμᾶς ἀναμένουσʼ ἐστυκότες.

Trygaeus Listen, good folk! Let the husbandmen take their farming tools and return to their fields as quickly as possible, but without either sword, spear or javelin. All is as quiet as if Peace had been reigning for a century. 555 Come, let everyone go and till the earth, singing the Paean.

Leader of the Chorus To Peace. Oh, thou, whom men of standing desired and who art good to husbandmen, I have gazed upon thee with delight; and now I go to greet my vines, to caress after so long an absence the fig trees I planted in my youth.

Trygaeus 560 Friends, let us first adore the goddess, who has delivered us from crests and Gorgons; then let us hurry to our farms, having first bought a nice little piece of salt fish to eat in the fields.

Hermes By Poseidon! what a fine crew they make 565 and dense as the crust of a cake; they are as nimble as guests on their way to a feast.

Trygaeus See, how their iron spades glitter and how beautifully their three-pronged mattocks glisten in the sun! How regularly they align the plants! I also burn to go into the country 570 and to turn over the earth I have so long neglected. —

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Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ ὅ τι σιωπᾷς ὦ πότνια κάτειπέ μοι.

Ἑρμῆς

ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν εἴποι πρός γε τοὺς θεωμένους·

ὀργὴν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὧν ἔπαθε πολλὴν ἔχει.

Τρυγαῖος

ἡ δʼ ἀλλὰ πρὸς σὲ μικρὸν εἰπάτω μόνον.
660

Τρυγαῖος

ἡμάρτομεν ταῦτʼ· ἀλλὰ συγγνώμην ἔχε·

ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἦν τότʼ ἐν τοῖς σκύτεσιν.

Ἑρμῆς

ἴθι νυν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο,
670

ὅστις κακόνους αὐτῇ μάλιστʼ ἦν ἐνθάδε,

χὤστις φίλος κἄσπευδεν εἶναι μὴ μάχας.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐνούστατος μὲν ἦν μακρῷ Κλεώνυμος.

Ἑρμῆς

ποῖός τις οὖν εἶναι δοκεῖ τὰ πολεμικὰ

ὁ Κλεώνυμος;
675

Τρυγαῖος

ψυχήν γʼ ἄριστος πλήν γʼ ὅτι

οὐκ ἦν ἄρʼ οὗπέρ φησιν εἶναι τοῦ πατρός.

εἰ γάρ ποτʼ ἐξέλθοι στρατιώτης, εὐθέως

ἀποβολιμαῖος τῶν ὅπλων ἐγίγνετο.

Ἑρμῆς

ἔτι νῦν ἄκουσον οἷον ἄρτι μʼ ἤρετο,

ὅστις κρατεῖ νῦν τοῦ λίθου τοῦ ʼν τῇ πυκνί.
680

Τρυγαῖος

Ὑπέρβολος νῦν τοῦτʼ ἔχει τὸ χωρίον.

αὕτη τί ποιεῖς; τὴν κεφαλὴν ποῖ περιάγεις;

Ἑρμῆς

ἀποστρέφεται τὸν δῆμον ἀχθεσθεῖσʼ ὅτι

αὑτῷ πονηρὸν προστάτην ἐπεγράψατο.

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ αὐτῷ χρησόμεθʼ οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ νῦν
685

ἀπορῶν ὁ δῆμος ἐπιτρόπου καὶ γυμνὸς ὢν

τοῦτον τέως τὸν ἄνδρα περιεζώσατο.

Ἑρμῆς

πῶς οὖν ξυνοίσει ταῦτʼ ἐρωτᾷ τῇ πόλει.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐβουλότεροι γενησόμεθα.

Ἑρμῆς

τρόπῳ τίνι;

Τρυγαῖος

ὅτι τυγχάνει λυχνοποιὸς ὤν. πρὸ τοῦ μὲν οὖν
690

ἐψηλαφῶμεν ἐν σκότῳ τὰ πράγματα,

νυνὶ δʼ ἅπαντα πρὸς λύχνον βουλεύσομεν.

Ἑρμῆς

ὢ ὤ,

οἷά μʼ ἐκέλευσεν ἀναπυθέσθαι σου.

Τρυγαῖος

τὰ τί;

Ἑρμῆς

πάμπολλα καὶ τἀρχαῖʼ ἃ κατέλιπεν τότε·

πρῶτον δʼ ὅ τι πράττει Σοφοκλέης ἀνήρετο.
695

Τρυγαῖος

εὐδαιμονεῖ, πάσχει δὲ θαυμαστόν.

Ἑρμῆς

τὸ τί;

Τρυγαῖος

ἐκ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους γίγνεται Σιμωνίδης.

Ἑρμῆς

Σιμωνίδης; πῶς;

Τρυγαῖος

ὅτι γέρων ὢν καὶ σαπρὸς

κέρδους ἕκατι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι.

Ἑρμῆς

τί δαί; Κρατῖνος ὁ σοφὸς ἔστιν;
700

Τρυγαῖος

ἀπέθανεν

ὅθʼ οἱ Λάκωνες ἐνέβαλον.

Ἑρμῆς

τί παθών;

Ἑρμῆς

ἴθι νυν ἐπὶ τούτοις τὴν Ὀπώραν λάμβανε

γυναῖκα σαυτῷ τήνδε· κᾆτʼ ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς

ταύτῃ ξυνοικῶν ἐκποιοῦ σαυτῷ βότρυς.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ φιλτάτη δεῦρʼ ἐλθὲ καὶ δός μοι κύσαι.

ἆρʼ ἂν βλαβῆναι διὰ χρόνου τί σοι δοκῶ
710

ὦ δέσποθʼ Ἑρμῆ τῆς Ὀπώρας κατελάσας;

Ἑρμῆς

οὐκ εἴ γε κυκεῶνʼ ἐπιπίοις βληχωνίαν.

ἀλλʼ ὡς τάχιστα τήνδε τὴν Θεωρίαν

ἀπάγαγε τῇ βουλῇ λαβών, ἧσπέρ ποτʼ ἦν.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ μακαρία βουλὴ σὺ τῆς Θεωρίας,
715

ὅσον ῥοφήσει ζωμὸν ἡμερῶν τριῶν,

ὅσας δὲ κατέδει ξόλικας ἑφθὰς καὶ κρέα.

ἀλλʼ ὦ φίλʼ Ἑρμῆ χαῖρε πολλά.

Ἑρμῆς

καὶ σύ γε

ὦνθρωπε χαίρων ἄπιθι καὶ μέμνησό μου.

Τρυγαῖος

ὦ κάνθαρʼ οἴκαδʼ οἴκαδʼ ἀποπετώμεθα.
720

Ἑρμῆς

οὐκ ἐνθάδʼ ὦ τᾶν ἔστι.

Τρυγαῖος

ποῖ γὰρ οἴχεται;

Ἑρμῆς

ὑφʼ ἅρματʼ ἐλθὼν Ζηνὸς ἀστραπηφορεῖ.

Τρυγαῖος

πόθεν οὖν ὁ τλήμων ἐνθάδʼ ἕξει σιτία;

Ἑρμῆς

τὴν τοῦ Γανυμήδους ἀμβροσίαν σιτήσεται.

Τρυγαῖος

πῶς δῆτʼ ἐγὼ καταβήσομαι;
725

Ἑρμῆς

θάρρει, καλῶς·

τῃδὶ παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν θεόν.

Τρυγαῖος

δεῦρʼ ὦ κόραι

ἕπεσθον ἅμʼ ἐμοὶ θᾶττον, ὡς πολλοὶ πάνυ

ποθοῦντες ὑμᾶς ἀναμένουσʼ ἐστυκότες.

Trygaeus

Listen, good folk! Let the husbandmen take their farming tools and return to their fields as quickly as possible, but without either sword, spear or javelin. All is as quiet as if Peace had been reigning for a century. 555 Come, let everyone go and till the earth, singing the Paean.

Leader of the Chorus
To Peace.

Oh, thou, whom men of standing desired and who art good to husbandmen, I have gazed upon thee with delight; and now I go to greet my vines, to caress after so long an absence the fig trees I planted in my youth.

Trygaeus

560 Friends, let us first adore the goddess, who has delivered us from crests and Gorgons; then let us hurry to our farms, having first bought a nice little piece of salt fish to eat in the fields.

Hermes

By Poseidon! what a fine crew they make 565 and dense as the crust of a cake; they are as nimble as guests on their way to a feast.

Trygaeus

See, how their iron spades glitter and how beautifully their three-pronged mattocks glisten in the sun! How regularly they align the plants! I also burn to go into the country 570 and to turn over the earth I have so long neglected. —