Birds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.
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Pisthetaerus: Do you see a bird?
Euelpides: By Apollo, I certainly not;
Euelpides: Yet, gazing at the sky, I am gaping with wonder.
Pisthetaerus: Otherwise, then, it seems, we are not yet on the perch
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Pisthetairos: He went inside, making a croaking sound like a jackdaw.
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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.) — 263 focus
Πισθέταιρος
ὁρᾷς τινʼ ὄρνιν;
ὁρᾷς τινʼ ὄρνιν;
Ἐυελπίδης
μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω ʼγὼ μὲν οὔ·
καίτοι κέχηνά γʼ ἐς τὸν οὐρανὸν βλέπων.
μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω ʼγὼ μὲν οὔ·
καίτοι κέχηνά γʼ ἐς τὸν οὐρανὸν βλέπων.
Πισθέταιρος
ἄλλως ἄρʼ οὕποψ, ὡς ἔοικʼ, ἐς τὴν λόχμην
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ἐσβὰς ἐπῷζε χαραδριὸν μιμούμενος.
ἄλλως ἄρʼ οὕποψ, ὡς ἔοικʼ, ἐς τὴν λόχμην
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ἐσβὰς ἐπῷζε χαραδριὸν μιμούμενος.
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.) — 263 focus
Pisthetaerus
Can you see any bird?
Can you see any bird?
Euelpides
By Phoebus, no! and yet I am straining my eyesight to scan the sky.
By Phoebus, no! and yet I am straining my eyesight to scan the sky.
Pisthetaerus
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It was hardly worth Epops' while to go and bury himself in the thicket like a hatching plover.
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It was hardly worth Epops' while to go and bury himself in the thicket like a hatching plover.