Aristophanes, Birds, 895

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Priest: Then again, even then to you

895

Priest: I need a second part.

Priest: 'Sprinkle the holy water, a pious person, and call out.'

Priest: Blessed, just one, if indeed you will have enough fish sauce.

900

Priest: For the victims present are nothing other than

Priest: He has a beard and horns.

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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

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Ὄρνιθες Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 895 focus

Ἱερεύς

εἶτʼ αὖθις αὖ τἄρα σοι
895

δεῖ με δεύτερον μέλος

χέρνιβι θεοσεβὲς ὅσιον ἐπιβοᾶν, καλεῖν δὲ

μάκαρας, ἕνα τινὰ μόνον, εἴπερ ἱκανὸν ἕξετʼ ὄψον.
900

τὰ γὰρ παρόντα θύματʼ οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν

γένειόν ἐστι καὶ κέρατα.

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.) — 895 focus

The Priest departs.

Priest
Singing.

896 It is imperative that I sing another sacred chant for the rite of the lustral water, and that I invoke 900 the immortals, or at least one of them, provided always that you have some suitable food to offer him; from what I see here, in the shape of gifts, there is naught whatever but horn and hair.

Aristophanes Birds 895

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