Aristophanes, Birds, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 1088

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Χορός

εὔδαιμον φῦλον πτηνῶν

οἰωνῶν, οἳ χειμῶνος μὲν

χλαίνας οὐκ ἀμπισχνοῦνται·
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οὐδʼ αὖ θερμὴ πνίγους ἡμᾶς

ἀκτὶς τηλαυγὴς θάλπει·

ἀλλʼ ἀνθηρῶν λειμώνων

φύλλων τʼ ἐν κόλποις ναίω,

ἡνίκʼ ἂν ὁ θεσπέσιος ὀξὺ μέλος ἀχέτας
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θάλπεσι μεσημβρινοῖς ἡλιομανὴς βοᾷ.

χειμάζω δʼ ἐν κοίλοις ἄντροις

νύμφαοις οὐρείαις ξυμπαίζων·

ἠρινά τε βοσκόμεθα παρθένια

λευκότροφα μύρτα Χαρίτων τε κηπεύματα.
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Birds. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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Ὄρνιθες (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.)

Translations (3)

Birds Perseus (Aristophanes. The Complete Greek Drama, Vol. 2. Anonymous, translator. O'Neill, Eugene; Oates, Whitney Jennings, editors. New York: Random House, 1938 (printing).) — 1088 focus

Second Semi-Chorus
Singing.

Happy indeed is the race of winged birds who

need no cloak in winter! Neither do I fear the relentless rays of the fiery dog-days;
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when the divine grasshopper, intoxicated with the sunlight, as noon is burning the ground, is breaking out into shrill melody; my home is beneath the foliage in the flowery meadows. I winter in deep caverns, where I frolic with the mountain nymphs, while in spring I despoil
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the gardens of the Graces and gather the white, virgin berry on the myrtle bushes.
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Birds (OCR draft) Experimental (Anonymous translation, 1938 compilation; legacy Perseus source migration. Preserved separately from the revised canonical perseus-eng2 at the project owner's request.) — 1088 focus

Second Semi-Chorus
Singing.

Happy indeed is the race of winged birds who 1090 need no cloak in winter! Neither do I fear the relentless rays of the fiery dog-days; 1095 when the divine grasshopper, intoxicated with the sunlight, as noon is burning the ground, is breaking out into shrill melody; my home is beneath the foliage in the flowery meadows. I winter in deep caverns, where I frolic with the mountain nymphs, while in spring I despoil 1100 the gardens of the Graces and gather the white, virgin berry on the myrtle bushes.

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.) — 1088 focus

Chorus: Happy race of birds!

Chorus: of birds, who indeed in winter

Chorus: They do not wear cloaks.

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Chorus: Nor again does a warm choking [of the] birds [affect] us.

Chorus: A far-shining ray warms.

Chorus: but of flowery meadows

Chorus: I dwell in the hollows of leaves,

Chorus: whenever the divine, piercing melody, the wailing,

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Chorus: the sun-stricken one cries out with the warmth of the midday sun.

Chorus: I am suffering in hollow caves

Chorus: playing with the mountain nymphs;

Chorus: We are feeding on the grasses of spring and on maidens.

Chorus: White-fed myrtles of the Graces, and their gardens.

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Aristophanes Birds 1088

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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