Aristophanes, Birds, 386

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Pisthetaerus: They are keeping the peace all the more, by Zeus, so that the pot...

Pisthetaerus: He settled down on the tray.

Pisthetaerus: And there must be a spear, a spit,

Pisthetaerus: to walk, having us

Pisthetaerus: the weapons inside, by her.

390

Pisthetaerus: seeing the pot empty

Pisthetaerus: Close by; we must not flee now.

Euelpides: 'It was true, then, that we should die,'

Eupolis: Where shall we be dug out of the ground?

Pisthetairos: The Kerameikos will take us.

395

Pisthetaerus: for let us bury him publicly,

Pisthetaerus: We will say to the generals

Pisthetaerus: fighting the enemies

Pisthetaerus: to die in the Birds.

Birds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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Ὄρνιθες Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 386 focus

Πισθέταιρος

μᾶλλον εἰρήνην ἄγουσι νὴ Δίʼ, ὥστε τὴν χύτραν

τώ τε τρυβλίω καθίει·

καὶ τὸ δόρυ χρή, τὸν ὀβελίσκον,

περιπατεῖν ἔχοντας ἡμᾶς

τῶν ὅπλων ἐντός, παρʼ αὐτὴν
390

τὴν χύτραν ἄκραν ὁρῶντας

ἐγγύς· ὡς οὐ φευκτέον νῷν.

Ἐυελπίδης

ἐτεὸν ἢν δʼ ἄρʼ ἀποθάνωμεν,

κατορυχθησόμεσθα ποῦ γῆς;

Πισθέταιρος

ὁ Κεραμεικὸς δέξεται νώ.
395

δημοσίᾳ γὰρ ἵνα ταφῶμεν,

φήσομεν πρὸς τοὺς στρατηγοὺς

μαχομένω τοῖς πολεμίοισιν

ἀποθανεῖν ἐν Ὀρνεαῖς.

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.) — 386 focus

Pisthetaerus

They are in a more peaceful mood; put down your stew-pot and your two dishes; spit in hand, doing duty for a spear, let us mount guard inside the camp 390 close to the pot and watch in our arsenal closely; for we must not fly.

Aristophanes Birds 386

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Ἐυελπίδης

ἐτεὸν ἢν δʼ ἄρʼ ἀποθάνωμεν,

κατορυχθησόμεσθα ποῦ γῆς;

Πισθέταιρος

ὁ Κεραμεικὸς δέξεται νώ.
395

δημοσίᾳ γὰρ ἵνα ταφῶμεν,

φήσομεν πρὸς τοὺς στρατηγοὺς

μαχομένω τοῖς πολεμίοισιν

ἀποθανεῖν ἐν Ὀρνεαῖς.

Pisthetaerus

They are in a more peaceful mood; put down your stew-pot and your two dishes; spit in hand, doing duty for a spear, let us mount guard inside the camp 390 close to the pot and watch in our arsenal closely; for we must not fly.

Euelpides

You are right. But where shall we be buried, if we die?

Pisthetaerus

395 In the Ceramicus; for, to get a public funeral, we shall tell the Strategi that we fell at Orneae, fighting the country's foes.

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Ἐυελπίδης ἐτεὸν ἢν δʼ ἄρʼ ἀποθάνωμεν, κατορυχθησόμεσθα ποῦ γῆς;

Πισθέταιρος ὁ Κεραμεικὸς δέξεται νώ. 395 δημοσίᾳ γὰρ ἵνα ταφῶμεν, φήσομεν πρὸς τοὺς στρατηγοὺς μαχομένω τοῖς πολεμίοισιν ἀποθανεῖν ἐν Ὀρνεαῖς.

Pisthetaerus They are in a more peaceful mood; put down your stew-pot and your two dishes; spit in hand, doing duty for a spear, let us mount guard inside the camp 390 close to the pot and watch in our arsenal closely; for we must not fly.

Euelpides You are right. But where shall we be buried, if we die?

Pisthetaerus 395 In the Ceramicus; for, to get a public funeral, we shall tell the Strategi that we fell at Orneae, fighting the country's foes.

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Ἐυελπίδης

ἐτεὸν ἢν δʼ ἄρʼ ἀποθάνωμεν,

κατορυχθησόμεσθα ποῦ γῆς;

Πισθέταιρος

ὁ Κεραμεικὸς δέξεται νώ.
395

δημοσίᾳ γὰρ ἵνα ταφῶμεν,

φήσομεν πρὸς τοὺς στρατηγοὺς

μαχομένω τοῖς πολεμίοισιν

ἀποθανεῖν ἐν Ὀρνεαῖς.

Pisthetaerus

They are in a more peaceful mood; put down your stew-pot and your two dishes; spit in hand, doing duty for a spear, let us mount guard inside the camp 390 close to the pot and watch in our arsenal closely; for we must not fly.

Euelpides

You are right. But where shall we be buried, if we die?

Pisthetaerus

395 In the Ceramicus; for, to get a public funeral, we shall tell the Strategi that we fell at Orneae, fighting the country's foes.