Aristophanes, Birds, 1694

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Chorus: There is also in Phanae near the

Chorus: Clepsydra, cunning de-

1695

Chorus: the race of tongue-and-stomach-eaters,

Chorus: they both reap and sow

Chorus: and they lick with their tongues

Chorus: and they fig-speak;

Chorus: but they are barbarians by birth,

1700

Chorus: Gorgias and Philip.

Chorus: and from the bird-bellies

Chorus: of those Philippics

Chorus: everywhere in Attica the

Chorus: a tongue is cut off without a knife.

1705

Birds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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English (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.)

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Editions (1)

Ὄρνιθες Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 1694 focus

Χορός

ἔστι δʼ ἐν Φαναῖσι πρὸς τῇ

Κλεψύδρᾳ πανοῦργον ἐγ-
1695

γλωττογαστόρων γένος,

οἳ θερίζουσίν τε καὶ σπείρουσι

καὶ τρυγῶσι ταῖς γλώτταισι

συκάζουσί τε·

βάρβαροι δʼ εἰσὶν γένος,
1700

Γοργίαι τε καὶ Φίλιπποι.

κἀπὸ τῶν ἐγγλωττογαστόρων

ἐκείνων τῶν Φιλίππων

πανταχοῦ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἡ

γλῶττα χωρὶς τέμνεται.
1705

Translations (2)

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

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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.) — 1694 focus

Chorus
Singing.

At Phanae, near the 1695 Clepsydra, there dwells a people who have neither faith nor law, the Englottogastors, who reap, sow, pluck the vines and the figs with their tongues; 1700 they belong to a barbaric race, and among them the Philippi and the Gorgiases are to be found; 'tis these Englottogastorian Philippi who introduced the custom all over Attica 1705 of cutting out the tongue separately at sacrifices.

Aristophanes Birds 1694

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