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Chorus: Lead again into line, back into the same place,

400

Chorus: And lay down your anger, bending over.

Chorus: alongside the anger, just like a hoplite;

Chorus: And let us ask these people who they are, pray.

Chorus: And from where did we come?

Chorus: For what idea?

405

Chorus: Io, hoopoe, I call you.

Birds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Ὄρνιθες Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 400 focus

Χορός

ἄναγʼ ἐς τάξιν πάλιν ἐς ταὐτόν,
400

καὶ τὸν θυμὸν κατάθου κύψας

παρὰ τὴν ὀργὴν ὥσπερ ὁπλίτης·

κἀναπυθώμεθα τούσδε τίνες ποτὲ

καὶ πόθεν ἔμολον

† ἐπὶ τίνα τʼ ἐπίνοιαν. †
405

ἰὼ ἔποψ σέ τοι καλῶ.

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).)

No corresponding passage available

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.) — 400 focus

Leader of the Chorus

400 Return to your ranks and lay down your courage beside your wrath as the hoplites do. Then let us ask these men who they are, whence they come, 405 and with what intent. Here, Epops, answer me.

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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† ἐπὶ τίνα τʼ ἐπίνοιαν. †

The sentence fragment is marked with daggers (†) in the critical apparatus, indicating that the text is corrupt and likely lacunose at this point. The phrase 'ἐπὶ τίνα τʼ ἐπίνοιαν' ('onto what sort of plan?') appears syntactically suspended without a governing verb, and the particle 'τε' suggests a connection to a preceding clause that is missing or corrupted in the transmitted manuscripts. This represents a genuine textual crux where the exact wording and grammatical completeness of the passage remain uncertain, necessitating reliance on conjecture or contextual reconstruction from parallel passages in the play.

Aristophanes Birds 400

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Leader of the Chorus

400 Return to your ranks and lay down your courage beside your wrath as the hoplites do. Then let us ask these men who they are, whence they come, 405 and with what intent. Here, Epops, answer me.

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Leader of the Chorus 400 Return to your ranks and lay down your courage beside your wrath as the hoplites do. Then let us ask these men who they are, whence they come, 405 and with what intent. Here, Epops, answer me.

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Leader of the Chorus

400 Return to your ranks and lay down your courage beside your wrath as the hoplites do. Then let us ask these men who they are, whence they come, 405 and with what intent. Here, Epops, answer me.