Aristophanes Lysistrata 541

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

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Lysistrata. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1907.

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

Translations (2)
Lysistrata (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Jack Lindsay). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 541 focus
English (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) Experimental (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) — 541 focus

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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†οὐδὲ τὰ γόνατα κόπος ἕλοι μου καματηρόσ†·
The text contains a significant textual crux at the end of the line. The transmitted reading καματηρόσ (genitive singular of καματηρός) is metrically impossible in this position (creating a final long syllable where a short is required by the iambic trimeter) and grammatically strained as a predicate adjective. Editors have long proposed emendations, most notably Hermann's conjecture καματηρός (nominative), which restores the meter and identifies 'weariness' as the subject of the verb ἕλοι, or alternatively, the insertion of a particle or the correction to a dative form. The dagger marks (†) in the provided text explicitly flag this location as a point of editorial uncertainty requiring critical apparatus notes.