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Chorus: Come here, everyone, make your way eagerly straight for safety.

Chorus: O Panhellenes, let us come to their aid, if ever we have [done so before],

Chorus: having been released from the ranks and from the Phoenician troubles;

Chorus: For this day has dawned, the hater of war.

Chorus: To these things, if we must do anything, tell us and build them too;

305

Chorus: for I do not think that I can refuse it today,

Chorus: before we have hauled it into the light with levers and machines.

Chorus: the greatest of all the goddesses and most fond of vines.

Trygaeus: You will not be silent, lest you be overjoyed at the affair.

Trygaeus: Will you stoke up War from the inside, shouting?

310

Chorus: But having heard such an announcement, we rejoice.

Chorus: for they had not come having provisions for three days.

Trygaeus: Now be careful of that Cerberus from below,

Trygaeus: Stop splashing and shouting as when you were here,

Trygaeus: May something prevent us from dragging out the goddess.

315

Chorus: No, there is not even now anyone who will take her away,

Chorus: If they once come to grips with mine. Iou, iou.

Trygaeus: wipe me out, then, men, if you do not stop shouting;

Trygaeus: for having run out, I will stir up all these things with my two feet.

Chorus: as it stirs up and treads upon everything and stirs up,

320

Chorus: For we would not have ceased rejoicing today.

Trygaeus: What is the evil? What is happening, men? By no means, by the gods.

Trygaeus: destroy the most beautiful thing because of the costumes.

Chorus: But I do not want to act, but rather from pleasure.

Chorus: If I do not move my two legs, dance not.

325

Trygaeus: Not even now, but stop, stop dancing!

Chorus: Behold, and indeed I have stopped.

Trygaeus: You say so, but he has not yet stopped.

Chorus: Just let me pull this one thing, and no more.

Trygaeus: Well then, this much, and no more, dance no longer.

Chorus: We would not dance, if indeed we were able to benefit you in any way.

330

Trygaeus: But look, you have not yet ceased.

Chorus: By Zeus, this is it!

Chorus: Having already cast off the leg, we now cease the right one.

Trygaeus: I hand this over to you so that you may not be grieved any longer.

Chorus: But even the left side is necessarily in my favor.

Chorus: For I am glad and rejoice and fart and laugh.

335

Chorus: rather than having put off old age and escaped the shield.

Trygaeus: perhaps you are rejoicing now too; for you do not yet know clearly.

Trygaeus: But when we take it, at that time rejoice.

Trygaeus: and shout and laugh! Already

For then it will be allowed to you.

340

Trygaeus: to sail, to stay, to drink, to sleep,

Trygaeus: to go to festivals as a spectator,

Trygaeus: To feast and to play kottabos,

Trygaeus: 'to live like a Sybarite.'

Trygaeus: Ouch, ouch, I have cried out.

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Εἰρήνη Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 301-345 focus

Χορός

δεῦρο πᾶς χώρει προθύμως εὐθὺ τῆς σωτηρίας.

ὦ Πανέλληνες βοηθήσωμεν, εἴπερ πώποτε,

τάξεων ἀπαλλαγέντες καὶ κακῶν φοινικικῶν·

ἡμέρα γὰρ ἐξέλαμψεν ἥδε μισολάμαχος.

πρὸς τάδʼ ἡμῖν, εἴ τι χρὴ δρᾶν, φράζε κἀρχιτεκτόνει·
305

οὐ γὰρ ἔσθʼ ὅπως ἀπειπεῖν ἂν δοκῶ μοι τήμερον,

πρὶν μοχλοῖς καὶ μηχαναῖσιν ἐς τὸ φῶς ἀνελκύσαι

τὴν θεῶν πασῶν μεγίστην καὶ φιλαμπελωτάτην.

Τρυγαῖος

οὐ σιωπήσεσθʼ, ὅπως μὴ περιχαρεῖς τῷ πράγματι

τὸν Πόλεμον ἐκζωπυρήσετʼ ἔνδοθεν κεκραγότες;
310

Χορός

ἀλλʼ ἀκούσαντες τοιούτου χαίρομεν κηρύγματος.

οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἔχοντας ἥκειν σιτίʼ ἡμερῶν τριῶν.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐλαβεῖσθέ νυν ἐκεῖνον τὸν κάτωθεν Κέρβερον,

μὴ παφλάζων καὶ κεκραγὼς ὥσπερ ἡνίκʼ ἐνθάδʼ ἦν,

ἐμποδὼν ἡμῖν γένηται τὴν θεὸν μὴ ʼξελκύσαι.
315

Χορός

οὔτι καὶ νῦν ἔστιν αὐτὴν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται,

ἢν ἅπαξ ἐς χεῖρας ἔλθῃ τὰς ἐμάς. ἰοῦ ἰοῦ.

Τρυγαῖος

ἐξολεῖτέ μʼ ὦνδρες, εἰ μὴ τῆς βοῆς ἀνήσετε·

ἐκδραμὼν γὰρ πάντα ταυτὶ συνταράξει τοῖν ποδοῖν.

Χορός

ὡς κυκάτω καὶ πατείτω πάντα καὶ ταραττέτω,
320

οὐ γὰρ ἂν χαίροντες ἡμεῖς τήμερον παυσαίμεθʼ ἄν.

Τρυγαῖος

τί τὸ κακόν; τί πάσχετʼ ὦνδρες; μηδαμῶς πρὸς τῶν θεῶν

πρᾶγμα κάλλιστον διαφθείρητε διὰ τὰ σχήματα.

Χορός

ἀλλʼ ἔγωγʼ οὐ σχηματίζειν βούλομʼ, ἀλλʼ ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς

οὐκ ἐμοῦ κινοῦντος αὐτὼ τὼ σκέλει χορεύετον.
325

Τρυγαῖος

μή τι καὶ νυνί γʼ ἔτʼ, ἀλλὰ παῦε παῦʼ ὀρχούμενος.

Χορός

ἢν ἰδοὺ καὶ δὴ πέπαυμαι.

Τρυγαῖος

φῄς γε, παύει δʼ οὐδέπω.

Χορός

ἓν μὲν οὖν τουτί μʼ ἔασον ἑλκύσαι, καὶ μηκέτι.

Τρυγαῖος

τοῦτό νυν, καὶ μηκέτʼ ἄλλο μηδὲν ὀρχήσησθʼ ἔτι.

Χορός

οὐκ ἂν ὀρχησαίμεθʼ, εἴπερ ὠφελήσαιμέν τί σε.
330

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ ὁρᾶτʼ οὔπω πέπαυσθε.

Χορός

τουτογὶ νὴ τὸν Δία

τὸ σκέλος ῥίψαντες ἤδη λήγομεν τὸ δεξιόν.

Τρυγαῖος

ἐπιδίδωμι τοῦτό γʼ ὑμῖν ὥστε μὴ λυπεῖν ἔτι.

Χορός

ἀλλὰ καὶ τἀριστερόν τοί μʼ ἐστʼ ἀναγκαίως ἔχον.

ἥδομαι γὰρ καὶ γέγηθα καὶ πέπορδα καὶ γελῶ
335

μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ γῆρας ἐκδὺς ἐκφυγὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα.

Τρυγαῖος

μή τι καὶ νυνί γε χαίρετʼ· οὐ γὰρ ἴστε πω σαφῶς·

ἀλλʼ ὅταν λάβωμεν αὐτήν, τηνικαῦτα χαίρετε

Τρυγαῖος

καὶ βοᾶτε καὶ γελᾶτʼ· ἤδη

γὰρ ἐξέσται τόθʼ ὑμῖν
340

πλεῖν μένειν βινεῖν καθεύδειν,

ἐς πανηγύρεις θεωρεῖν,

ἑστιᾶσθαι κοτταβίζειν,

†συβαρίζειν†

ἰοῦ ἰοῦ κεκραγέναι.
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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.) — 301 focus

The Chorus enters; it consists of laborers and farmers from various Greek states.

Leader of the Chorus

Come hither all! quick, quick, hasten to the rescue! All peoples of Greece , now is the time or never, for you to help each other. You see yourselves freed from battles and all their horrors of bloodshed. The day hateful to Lamachus has come.

To Trygaeus.

305 Come then, what must be done? Give your orders, direct us, for I swear to work this day without ceasing, until with the help of our levers and our engines we have drawn back into light the greatest of all goddesses, her to whom the olive is so dear.

Trygaeus

Silence! 310 if War should hear your shouts of joy he would bound forth from his retreat in fury.

Leader of the Chorus

Such a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the edict, which bade us muster with provisions for three days.

Trygaeus

Let us beware lest the cursed Cerberus 315 prevent us even from the nethermost hell from delivering the goddess by his furious howling, just as he did when on earth.

Leader of the Chorus

Once we have hold of her, none in the world will be able to take her from us. Huzza! huzza!

Trygaeus

You will work my death if you don't subdue your shouts. War will come running out and trample everything beneath his feet.

Leader of the Chorus

320 Well then! Let him confound, let him trample, let him overturn everything! We cannot help giving vent to our joy.

Trygaeus

Oh! cruel fate! My friends! in the name of the gods, what possess you? Your dancing will wreck the success of a fine undertaking.

Leader of the Chorus

It's not I who want to dance; 325 it's my legs that bound with delight.

Trygaeus

Enough, please, cease your gambols.

Leader of the Chorus

There! That's all.

Trygaeus

You say so, and nevertheless you go on.

Leader of the Chorus

Yet one more figure and it's done.

Trygaeus

Well, just this one; then you must dance no more.

Leader of the Chorus

330 No, no more dancing, if we can help you.

Trygaeus

But look, you are not stopping even now.

Leader of the Chorus

By Zeus, I am only throwing up my right leg, that's all.

Trygaeus

Come, I grant you that, but pray, annoy me no further.

Leader of the Chorus

Ah! the left leg too will have its fling; well, that's its right. 335 I am so happy, so delighted at not having to carry my buckler any more. I fart for joy and I laugh more than if I had cast my old age, as a serpent does its skin.

Trygaeus

No, it's not time for joy yet, for you are not sure of success. But when you have got the goddess,

Then rejoice, shout and laugh; 340 thenceforward you will be able to sail or stay at home, to make love or sleep, to attend festivals and processions, to play at cottabos, live like true Sybarites 345 and to shout, Io, io!

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†συβαρίζειν†

The form συβαρίζειν is a textual crux in this passage of Aristophanes' Peace. While the majority of manuscripts read συβαρίζειν (to act like a Sybarite, i.e., to indulge in luxury), some editors and scholars have proposed emending it to σιβαρίζειν or analyzing it as a hapax legomenon with a different etymological root, arguing that the context of the play (which satirizes the war and the restoration of peace) might call for a term related to the specific political faction or a different dialectal usage. The standard interpretation, however, treats it as a derivative of Συβάρις, playing on the contemporary reputation of Sybaris as the epitome of decadence, which Aristophanes uses to mock the Tragedy's perceived softness or the Athenian desire for comfort over war.

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Τρυγαῖος οὐ σιωπήσεσθʼ, ὅπως μὴ περιχαρεῖς τῷ πράγματι τὸν Πόλεμον ἐκζωπυρήσετʼ ἔνδοθεν κεκραγότες; 310

Χορός ἀλλʼ ἀκούσαντες τοιούτου χαίρομεν κηρύγματος. οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἔχοντας ἥκειν σιτίʼ ἡμερῶν τριῶν.

Τρυγαῖος εὐλαβεῖσθέ νυν ἐκεῖνον τὸν κάτωθεν Κέρβερον, μὴ παφλάζων καὶ κεκραγὼς ὥσπερ ἡνίκʼ ἐνθάδʼ ἦν, ἐμποδὼν ἡμῖν γένηται τὴν θεὸν μὴ ʼξελκύσαι. 315

Χορός οὔτι καὶ νῦν ἔστιν αὐτὴν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται, ἢν ἅπαξ ἐς χεῖρας ἔλθῃ τὰς ἐμάς. ἰοῦ ἰοῦ.

Τρυγαῖος ἐξολεῖτέ μʼ ὦνδρες, εἰ μὴ τῆς βοῆς ἀνήσετε· ἐκδραμὼν γὰρ πάντα ταυτὶ συνταράξει τοῖν ποδοῖν.

Χορός ὡς κυκάτω καὶ πατείτω πάντα καὶ ταραττέτω, 320 οὐ γὰρ ἂν χαίροντες ἡμεῖς τήμερον παυσαίμεθʼ ἄν.

Τρυγαῖος τί τὸ κακόν; τί πάσχετʼ ὦνδρες; μηδαμῶς πρὸς τῶν θεῶν πρᾶγμα κάλλιστον διαφθείρητε διὰ τὰ σχήματα.

Χορός ἀλλʼ ἔγωγʼ οὐ σχηματίζειν βούλομʼ, ἀλλʼ ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς οὐκ ἐμοῦ κινοῦντος αὐτὼ τὼ σκέλει χορεύετον. 325

Τρυγαῖος μή τι καὶ νυνί γʼ ἔτʼ, ἀλλὰ παῦε παῦʼ ὀρχούμενος.

Χορός ἢν ἰδοὺ καὶ δὴ πέπαυμαι.

Τρυγαῖος φῄς γε, παύει δʼ οὐδέπω.

Χορός ἓν μὲν οὖν τουτί μʼ ἔασον ἑλκύσαι, καὶ μηκέτι.

Τρυγαῖος τοῦτό νυν, καὶ μηκέτʼ ἄλλο μηδὲν ὀρχήσησθʼ ἔτι.

Χορός οὐκ ἂν ὀρχησαίμεθʼ, εἴπερ ὠφελήσαιμέν τί σε. 330

Τρυγαῖος ἀλλʼ ὁρᾶτʼ οὔπω πέπαυσθε.

Χορός τουτογὶ νὴ τὸν Δία τὸ σκέλος ῥίψαντες ἤδη λήγομεν τὸ δεξιόν.

Τρυγαῖος ἐπιδίδωμι τοῦτό γʼ ὑμῖν ὥστε μὴ λυπεῖν ἔτι.

Χορός ἀλλὰ καὶ τἀριστερόν τοί μʼ ἐστʼ ἀναγκαίως ἔχον. ἥδομαι γὰρ καὶ γέγηθα καὶ πέπορδα καὶ γελῶ 335 μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ γῆρας ἐκδὺς ἐκφυγὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα.

Τρυγαῖος μή τι καὶ νυνί γε χαίρετʼ· οὐ γὰρ ἴστε πω σαφῶς· ἀλλʼ ὅταν λάβωμεν αὐτήν, τηνικαῦτα χαίρετε

Leader of the Chorus Come hither all! quick, quick, hasten to the rescue! All peoples of Greece , now is the time or never, for you to help each other. You see yourselves freed from battles and all their horrors of bloodshed. The day hateful to Lamachus has come.

To Trygaeus. 305 Come then, what must be done? Give your orders, direct us, for I swear to work this day without ceasing, until with the help of our levers and our engines we have drawn back into light the greatest of all goddesses, her to whom the olive is so dear.

Trygaeus Silence! 310 if War should hear your shouts of joy he would bound forth from his retreat in fury.

Leader of the Chorus Such a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the edict, which bade us muster with provisions for three days.

Trygaeus Let us beware lest the cursed Cerberus 315 prevent us even from the nethermost hell from delivering the goddess by his furious howling, just as he did when on earth.

Leader of the Chorus Once we have hold of her, none in the world will be able to take her from us. Huzza! huzza!

Trygaeus You will work my death if you don't subdue your shouts. War will come running out and trample everything beneath his feet.

Leader of the Chorus 320 Well then! Let him confound, let him trample, let him overturn everything! We cannot help giving vent to our joy.

Trygaeus Oh! cruel fate! My friends! in the name of the gods, what possess you? Your dancing will wreck the success of a fine undertaking.

Leader of the Chorus It's not I who want to dance; 325 it's my legs that bound with delight.

Trygaeus Enough, please, cease your gambols.

Leader of the Chorus There! That's all.

Trygaeus You say so, and nevertheless you go on.

Leader of the Chorus Yet one more figure and it's done.

Trygaeus Well, just this one; then you must dance no more.

Leader of the Chorus 330 No, no more dancing, if we can help you.

Trygaeus But look, you are not stopping even now.

Leader of the Chorus By Zeus, I am only throwing up my right leg, that's all.

Trygaeus Come, I grant you that, but pray, annoy me no further.

Leader of the Chorus Ah! the left leg too will have its fling; well, that's its right. 335 I am so happy, so delighted at not having to carry my buckler any more. I fart for joy and I laugh more than if I had cast my old age, as a serpent does its skin.

Trygaeus No, it's not time for joy yet, for you are not sure of success. But when you have got the goddess,

Then rejoice, shout and laugh; 340 thenceforward you will be able to sail or stay at home, to make love or sleep, to attend festivals and processions, to play at cottabos, live like true Sybarites 345 and to shout, Io, io!

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Τρυγαῖος

οὐ σιωπήσεσθʼ, ὅπως μὴ περιχαρεῖς τῷ πράγματι

τὸν Πόλεμον ἐκζωπυρήσετʼ ἔνδοθεν κεκραγότες;
310

Χορός

ἀλλʼ ἀκούσαντες τοιούτου χαίρομεν κηρύγματος.

οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἔχοντας ἥκειν σιτίʼ ἡμερῶν τριῶν.

Τρυγαῖος

εὐλαβεῖσθέ νυν ἐκεῖνον τὸν κάτωθεν Κέρβερον,

μὴ παφλάζων καὶ κεκραγὼς ὥσπερ ἡνίκʼ ἐνθάδʼ ἦν,

ἐμποδὼν ἡμῖν γένηται τὴν θεὸν μὴ ʼξελκύσαι.
315

Χορός

οὔτι καὶ νῦν ἔστιν αὐτὴν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται,

ἢν ἅπαξ ἐς χεῖρας ἔλθῃ τὰς ἐμάς. ἰοῦ ἰοῦ.

Τρυγαῖος

ἐξολεῖτέ μʼ ὦνδρες, εἰ μὴ τῆς βοῆς ἀνήσετε·

ἐκδραμὼν γὰρ πάντα ταυτὶ συνταράξει τοῖν ποδοῖν.

Χορός

ὡς κυκάτω καὶ πατείτω πάντα καὶ ταραττέτω,
320

οὐ γὰρ ἂν χαίροντες ἡμεῖς τήμερον παυσαίμεθʼ ἄν.

Τρυγαῖος

τί τὸ κακόν; τί πάσχετʼ ὦνδρες; μηδαμῶς πρὸς τῶν θεῶν

πρᾶγμα κάλλιστον διαφθείρητε διὰ τὰ σχήματα.

Χορός

ἀλλʼ ἔγωγʼ οὐ σχηματίζειν βούλομʼ, ἀλλʼ ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς

οὐκ ἐμοῦ κινοῦντος αὐτὼ τὼ σκέλει χορεύετον.
325

Τρυγαῖος

μή τι καὶ νυνί γʼ ἔτʼ, ἀλλὰ παῦε παῦʼ ὀρχούμενος.

Χορός

ἢν ἰδοὺ καὶ δὴ πέπαυμαι.

Τρυγαῖος

φῄς γε, παύει δʼ οὐδέπω.

Χορός

ἓν μὲν οὖν τουτί μʼ ἔασον ἑλκύσαι, καὶ μηκέτι.

Τρυγαῖος

τοῦτό νυν, καὶ μηκέτʼ ἄλλο μηδὲν ὀρχήσησθʼ ἔτι.

Χορός

οὐκ ἂν ὀρχησαίμεθʼ, εἴπερ ὠφελήσαιμέν τί σε.
330

Τρυγαῖος

ἀλλʼ ὁρᾶτʼ οὔπω πέπαυσθε.

Χορός

τουτογὶ νὴ τὸν Δία

τὸ σκέλος ῥίψαντες ἤδη λήγομεν τὸ δεξιόν.

Τρυγαῖος

ἐπιδίδωμι τοῦτό γʼ ὑμῖν ὥστε μὴ λυπεῖν ἔτι.

Χορός

ἀλλὰ καὶ τἀριστερόν τοί μʼ ἐστʼ ἀναγκαίως ἔχον.

ἥδομαι γὰρ καὶ γέγηθα καὶ πέπορδα καὶ γελῶ
335

μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ γῆρας ἐκδὺς ἐκφυγὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα.

Τρυγαῖος

μή τι καὶ νυνί γε χαίρετʼ· οὐ γὰρ ἴστε πω σαφῶς·

ἀλλʼ ὅταν λάβωμεν αὐτήν, τηνικαῦτα χαίρετε

Leader of the Chorus

Come hither all! quick, quick, hasten to the rescue! All peoples of Greece , now is the time or never, for you to help each other. You see yourselves freed from battles and all their horrors of bloodshed. The day hateful to Lamachus has come.

To Trygaeus.

305 Come then, what must be done? Give your orders, direct us, for I swear to work this day without ceasing, until with the help of our levers and our engines we have drawn back into light the greatest of all goddesses, her to whom the olive is so dear.

Trygaeus

Silence! 310 if War should hear your shouts of joy he would bound forth from his retreat in fury.

Leader of the Chorus

Such a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the edict, which bade us muster with provisions for three days.

Trygaeus

Let us beware lest the cursed Cerberus 315 prevent us even from the nethermost hell from delivering the goddess by his furious howling, just as he did when on earth.

Leader of the Chorus

Once we have hold of her, none in the world will be able to take her from us. Huzza! huzza!

Trygaeus

You will work my death if you don't subdue your shouts. War will come running out and trample everything beneath his feet.

Leader of the Chorus

320 Well then! Let him confound, let him trample, let him overturn everything! We cannot help giving vent to our joy.

Trygaeus

Oh! cruel fate! My friends! in the name of the gods, what possess you? Your dancing will wreck the success of a fine undertaking.

Leader of the Chorus

It's not I who want to dance; 325 it's my legs that bound with delight.

Trygaeus

Enough, please, cease your gambols.

Leader of the Chorus

There! That's all.

Trygaeus

You say so, and nevertheless you go on.

Leader of the Chorus

Yet one more figure and it's done.

Trygaeus

Well, just this one; then you must dance no more.

Leader of the Chorus

330 No, no more dancing, if we can help you.

Trygaeus

But look, you are not stopping even now.

Leader of the Chorus

By Zeus, I am only throwing up my right leg, that's all.

Trygaeus

Come, I grant you that, but pray, annoy me no further.

Leader of the Chorus

Ah! the left leg too will have its fling; well, that's its right. 335 I am so happy, so delighted at not having to carry my buckler any more. I fart for joy and I laugh more than if I had cast my old age, as a serpent does its skin.

Trygaeus

No, it's not time for joy yet, for you are not sure of success. But when you have got the goddess,