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Χορὸς γερόντων

δεινὰ γάρ τοι τάσδε γʼ ἤδη τοὺς πολίτας νουθετεῖν,

καὶ λαλεῖν γυναῖκας οὔσας ἀσπίδος χαλκῆς πέρι,

καὶ διαλλάττειν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀνδράσιν Λακωνικοῖς,

οἷσι πιστὸν οὐδὲν εἰ μή περ λύκῳ κεχηνότι.

ἀλλὰ ταῦθʼ ὕφηναν ἡμῖν ἄνδρες ἐπὶ τυραννίδι.
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ἀλλʼ ἐμοῦ μὲν οὐ τυραννεύσουσʼ, ἐπεὶ φυλάξομαι

καὶ φορήσω τὸ ξίφος τὸ λοιπὸν ἐν μύρτου κλαδί,

ἀγοράσω τʼ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἑξῆς Ἀριστογείτονι,

ὧδέ θʼ ἑστήξω παρʼ αὐτόν· †αὐτὸσ† γάρ μοι γίγνεται

τῆς θεοῖς ἐχθρᾶς πατάξαι τῆσδε γραὸς τὴν γνάθον.
635

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.) — 626 focus

OLD MEN.

For is it not preposterous

They should talk this way to us

On a subject such as battle!

And, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle—

Make alliance with the Spartans—people I for one
780

Like very hungry wolves would always most sincere shun....

Some dirty game is up their sleeve,

I believe.

A Tyranny, no doubt... but they won't catch me, that know.

Henceforth on my guard I'll go,
785

A sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand,

And under arms in the Public Place I'll take my watchful stand,

Shoulder to shoulder with Aristogeiton. Now my staff I'll draw

And start at once by knocking

that shocking
790

Hag upon the jaw.

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.) — 626 focus

Chorus of old men: for already these things are terribly admonishing the citizens,

Chorus of old men: And even women who are, about a bronze shield, to chatter,

Chorus of old men: and to make peace with us with Lacedaemonian men,

Chorus of old men: To them, nothing is trustworthy, unless perhaps to a wolf with its mouth gaping open.

Chorus of old men: But these things men have woven for us in order to establish tyranny.

630

Chorus of old men: But they will not tyrannize over me, since I will keep watch.

Chorus of old men: And I shall wear the sword henceforth in a myrtle branch,

Chorus of old men: I will buy, next to the weapons, from Aristogeiton,

Chorus of Old Men: Thus I shall stand beside him; for I am becoming bold.

Chorus of old men: To strike the jaw of this old woman, an enemy of the goddesses.

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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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ὧδέ θʼ ἑστήξω παρʼ αὐτόν· †αὐτὸσ† γάρ μοι γίγνεται

The text contains the corruption †αὐτὸσ†, where the final sigma (σ) is an erroneous spelling of the nominative masculine singular article or pronoun, which should be αὐτός. The critical edition of the text (e.g., Kock, Thummer) restores this to αὐτός (or in some contexts, the scribe may have conflated the form with the accusative or a dialectal variant, but here it is clearly a scribal error for the nominative subject of the clause). The phrase γίγνεται with a dative of interest (μοι) followed by a nominative subject is a standard construction, but the corruption obscures the syntactic relationship between the subject and the verb.

Aristophanes Lysistrata 626

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

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