Aristophanes Lysistrata 46

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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Λυσιστράτη

ταῦτʼ αὐτὰ γάρ τοι κἄσθʼ ἃ σώσειν προσδοκῶ,

τὰ κροκωτίδια καὶ τὰ μύρα χαἰ περιβαρίδες

χἤγχουσα καὶ τὰ διαφανῆ χιτώνια.

Καλονίκη

τίνα δὴ τρόπον ποθʼ;

Λυσιστράτη

ὥστε τῶν νῦν μηδένα

ἀνδρῶν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοισιν ἄρεσθαι δόρυ—
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Καλονίκη

κροκωτὸν ἄρα νὴ τὼ θεὼ ʼγὼ βάψομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

μηδʼ ἀσπίδα λαβεῖν—

Καλονίκη

Κιμμερικὸν ἐνδύσομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

μηδὲ ξιφίδιον.

Καλονίκη

κτήσομαι περιβαρίδας.

Λυσιστράτη

ἆρʼ οὐ παρεῖναι τὰς γυναῖκας δῆτʼ ἐχρῆν;

Καλονίκη

οὐ γὰρ μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλὰ πετομένας ἥκειν πάλαι.
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Λυσιστράτη

ἀλλʼ ὦ μέλʼ ὄψει τοι σφόδρʼ αὐτὰς Ἀττικάς,

ἅπαντα δρώσας τοῦ δέοντος ὕστερον.

ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ Παράλων οὐδεμία γυνὴ πάρα,

οὐδʼ ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος.

Καλονίκη

ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖναί γʼ οἶδʼ ὅτι

ἐπὶ τῶν κελήτων διαβεβήκασʼ ὄρθριαι.
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Λυσιστράτη

οὐδʼ ἃς προσεδόκων κἀλογιζόμην ἐγὼ

πρώτας παρέσεσθαι δεῦρο τὰς Ἀχαρνέων

γυναῖκας, οὐχ ἥκουσιν.

Καλονίκη

ἡ γοῦν Θεογένους

ὡς δεῦρʼ ἰοῦσα θοὐκάταιον ἤρετο.

ἀτὰρ αἵδε καὶ δή σοι προσέρχονταί τινες.
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¹αἱδί θʼ ἕτεραι χωροῦσί τινες. ἰοὺ ἰού,

πόθεν εἰσίν;

Λυσιστράτη

Ἀναγυρουντόθεν.

Καλονίκη

νὴ τὸν Δία·

ὁ γοῦν ἀνάγυρός μοι κεκινῆσθαι δοκεῖ.

Μυρρίνη

μῶν ὕστεραι πάρεσμεν ὦ Λυσιστράτη;

τί φῄς; τί σιγᾷς;
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Λυσιστράτη

οὔ σʼ ἐπαινῶ Μυρρίνη

ἥκουσαν ἄρτι περὶ τοιούτου πράγματος.

Μυρρίνη

μόλις γὰρ ηὗρον ἐν σκότῳ τὸ ζώνιον.

ἀλλʼ εἴ τι πάνυ δεῖ, ταῖς παρούσαισιν λέγε.

Λυσιστράτη

μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλʼ ἐπαναμείνωμεν ὀλίγου γʼ οὕνεκα

τάς τʼ ἐκ Βοιωτῶν τάς τε Πελοποννησίων
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γυναῖκας ἐλθεῖν.

Μυρρίνη

πολὺ σὺ κάλλιον λέγεις.

ἡδὶ δὲ καὶ δὴ Λαμπιτὼ προσέρχεται.

Λυσιστράτη

ὦ φιλτάτη Λάκαινα χαῖρε Λαμπιτοῖ.

οἷον τὸ κάλλος γλυκυτάτη σου φαίνεται.

ὡς δʼ εὐχροεῖς, ὡς δὲ σφριγᾷ τὸ σῶμά σου.
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κἂν ταῦρον ἄγχοις.

Λαμπιτώ

μάλα γʼ οἰῶ ναὶ τὼ σιώ·

γυμνάδδομαι γὰρ καὶ ποτὶ πυγὰν ἅλλομαι.

Καλονίκη

ὡς δὴ καλὸν τὸ χρῆμα τιτθίων ἔχεις.

Λαμπιτώ

ᾇπερ ἱερεῖόν τοί μʼ ὑποψαλάσσετε.

Λυσιστράτη

ἡδὶ δὲ ποδαπή ʼσθʼ ἡ νεᾶνις ἡτέρα;
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Lysistrata. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1907.

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Current edition Perseus

Λυσιστράτη (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

Translations (1)

Lysistrata (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Jack Lindsay). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 46 focus

LYSISTRATA

These are the very armaments of the rescue.

These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh,

Slippers, cosmetics dusting beauty, and robes

With rippling creases of light.
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CALONICE

Yes, but how?

LYSISTRATA

No man will lift a lance against another—

CALONICE

I'll run to have my tunic dyed crocus.

LYSISTRATA

Or take a shield—

CALONICE

I'll get a stately gown.
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LYSISTRATA

Or unscabbard a sword—

CALONICE

Let me buy a pair of slipper.

LYSISTRATA

Now, tell me, are the women right to lag?

CALONICE

They should have turned birds, they should have grown

wings and flown.
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LYSISTRATA

My friend, you'll see that they are true Athenians:

Always too late. Why, there's not a woman

From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis .

CALONICE

I know for certain they awoke at dawn,

And got their husbands up if not their boat sails.
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LYSISTRATA

And I'd have staked my life the Acharnian dames

Would be here first, yet they haven't come either!

CALONICE

Well anyhow there is Theagenes' wife

We can expect—she consulted Hecate.

But look, here are some at last, and more behind them.
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See ... where are they from?

CALONICE

From Anagyra they come.

LYSISTRATA

Yes, they generally manage to come first.

Enter MYRRHINE.

MYRRHINE

Are we late, Lysistrata? ... What is that?

Nothing to say?
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LYSISTRATA

I've not much to say for you,

Myrrhine, dawdling on so vast an affair.

MYRRHINE

I couldn't find my girdle in the dark.

But if the affair's so wonderfull, tell us, what is it?

LYSISTRATA

No, let us stay a little longer till
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The Peloponnesian girls and the girls of Boeotia

Are here to listen.

MYRRHINE

That's the best advice.

Ah, there comes Lampito.

Enter LAMPITO.

LYSISTRATA

Welcome Lampito!
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Dear Spartan girl with a delightful face,

Washed with the rosy spring, how fresh you look

In the easy stride of your sleek slenderness,

Why you could strangle a bull!

LAMPITO

I think I could.
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It's frae exercise and kicking high behint.¹

LYSISTRATA

What lovely breasts to own!

LAMPITO

Oo ... your fingers

Assess them, ye tickler, wi' such tender chucks

I feel as if I were an altar-victim.
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LYSISTRATA

Who is this youngster?

Notes on the current edition

Lysistrata

1. Lines 66 and 67 first part reassigned based on print edition.