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κατέλαβον ᾗ τοῦ Πανός ἐστι ταὐλίον,

The phrase ᾗ τοῦ Πανός ἐστι ταὐλίον contains a crux regarding the location of the 'sheepfold' (ταὐλίον). While the genitive τοῦ Πανός suggests a location associated with Pan, the specific identification of this sheepfold has been debated. Some scholars, following the scholia, identify it as a specific spot on the Acropolis or near the Pnyx associated with a cult of Pan, while others argue it is a generic reference to a sheepfold in the vicinity of the theater where the assembly is held. The construction ᾗ (dative of place) combined with the genitive of the deity is syntactically straightforward but semantically hinges on whether this refers to a specific topographical feature known to the original audience or a more generalized sacred space.

Lysistrata. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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Editions (1)

Λυσιστράτη Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 706 focus

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

ἄνασσα πράγους τοῦδε καὶ βουλεύματος,

τί μοι σκυθρωπὸς ἐξελήλυθας δόμων;

Λυσιστράτη

κακῶν γυναικῶν ἔργα καὶ θήλεια φρὴν

ποιεῖ μʼ ἄθυμον περιπατεῖν τʼ ἄνω κάτω.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

τί φῄς; τί φῄς;
710

Λυσιστράτη

ἀληθῆ, ἀληθῆ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

τί δʼ ἐστὶ δεινόν; φράζε ταῖς σαυτῆς φίλαις.

Λυσιστράτη

ἀλλʼ αἰσχρὸν εἰπεῖν καὶ σιωπῆσαι βαρύ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

μή νύν με κρύψῃς ὅ τι πεπόνθαμεν κακόν.

Λυσιστράτη

βινητιῶμεν, ᾗ βράχιστον τοῦ λόγου.
715

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

ἰὼ Ζεῦ.

Λυσιστράτη

τί Ζῆνʼ ἀυτεῖς; ταῦτα δʼ οὖν οὕτως ἔχει.

ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν αὐτὰς ἀποσχεῖν οὐκέτι

οἵα τʼ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν· διαδιδράσκουσι γάρ.

τὴν μέν γε πρώτην διαλέγουσαν τὴν ὀπὴν
720

κατέλαβον ᾗ τοῦ Πανός ἐστι ταὐλίον,

τὴν δʼ ἐκ τροχιλείας αὖ κατειλυσπωμένην,

τὴν δʼ αὐτομολοῦσαν, τὴν δʼ ἐπὶ στρούθου †μίαν†

ἤδη πέτεσθαι διανοουμένην κάτω

ἐς Ὀρσιλόχου χθὲς τῶν τριχῶν κατέσπασα.
725

πάσας τε προφάσεις ὥστʼ ἀπελθεῖν οἴκαδε

ἕλκουσιν. ἤδη γοῦν τις αὐτῶν ἔρχεται.

αὕτη σὺ ποῖ θεῖς;

Γυνὴ Α

οἴκαδʼ ἐλθεῖν βούλομαι.

οἴκοι γάρ ἐστιν ἔριά μοι Μιλήσια

ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα.
730

Λυσιστράτη

ποίων σέων;

οὐκ εἶ πάλιν;

Γυνὴ Α

ἀλλʼ ἥξω ταχέως νὴ τὼ θεὼ

ὅσον διαπετάσασʼ ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης μόνον.

Λυσιστράτη

μὴ διαπετάννυ, μηδʼ ἀπέλθῃς μηδαμῇ.

Γυνὴ Α

ἀλλʼ ἐῶ ʼπολέσθαι τἄριʼ;

Λυσιστράτη

ἢν τούτου δέῃ.

Γυνὴ Β

τάλαινʼ ἐγώ, τάλαινα τῆς Ἀμοργίδος,
735

ἣν ἄλοπον οἴκοι καταλέλοιφʼ.

Λυσιστράτη

αὕθἠτέρα

ἐπὶ τὴν Ἄμοργιν τὴν ἄλοπον ἐξέρχεται.

χώρει πάλιν δεῦρʼ.

Γυνὴ Β

ἀλλὰ νὴ τὴν Φωσφόρον

ἔγωγʼ ἀποδείρασʼ αὐτίκα μάλʼ ἀνέρχομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

μή μἀποδείρῃς. ἢν γὰρ ἄρξῃς τοῦτο σύ,
740

ἑτέρα γυνὴ ταὐτὸν ποιεῖν βουλήσεται.

Γυνὴ Γ

ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰλείθυιʼ ἐπίσχες τοῦ τόκου,

ἕως ἂν εἰς ὅσιον μόλω ʼγὼ χωρίον.

Λυσιστράτη

τί ταῦτα ληρεῖς;

Γυνὴ Γ

αὐτίκα μάλα τέξομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκύεις σύ γʼ ἐχθές.
745

Γυνὴ Γ

ἀλλὰ τήμερον.

ἀλλʼ οἴκαδέ μʼ ὡς τὴν μαῖαν ὦ Λυσιστράτη

ἀπόπεμψον ὡς τάχιστα.

Λυσιστράτη

τίνα λόγον λέγεις;

τί τοῦτʼ ἔχεις τὸ σκληρόν;

Γυνὴ Γ

ἄρρεν παιδίον.

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.) — 706 focus

LYSISTRATA enters in dismay.

WOMEN

Dear Mistress of our martial enterprise,
885

Why do you come with sorrow in your eyes?

LYSISTRATA

O 'tis our naughty femininity,

So weak in one spot, that hath saddened me.

WOMEN

What's this? Please speak.

LYSISTRATA

Poor women, O so weak!
890

WOMEN

What can it be? Surely your friends may know.

LYSISTRATA

Yea, I must speak it though it hurt me so.

WOMEN

Speak; can we help? Don't stand there mute in need.

LYSISTRATA

I'll blurt it out then—our women's army's mutinied.

WOMEN

O Zeus!
895

LYSISTRATA

What use is Zeus to our anatomy?

Here is the gaping calamity I meant:

I cannot shut their ravenous appetites

A moment more now. They are all deserting.

The first I caught was sidling through the postern
900

Close by the Cave of Pan: the next hoisting herself

With rope and pulley down: a third on the point

Of slipping past: while a fourth malcontent, seated

For instant flight to visit Orsilochus

On bird-back, I dragged off by the hair in time....
905

They are all snatching excuses to sneak home.

Look, there goes one.... Hey, what's the hurry?

1ST WOMAN

I must get home. I've some Milesian wool

Packed wasting away, and moths are pushing through it.

LYSISTRATA

Fine moths indeed, I know. Get back within.
910

1ST WOMAN

By the Goddesses, I'll return instantly.

I only want to stretch it on my bed.

LYSISTRATA

You shall stretch nothing and go nowhere either.

1ST WOMAN

Must I never use my wool then?

LYSISTRATA

If needs be.
915

2ND WOMAN

How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax!

It's left at home unstript.

LYSISTRATA

So here's another

That wishes to go home and strip her flax.

Inside again!
920

2ND WOMAN

No, by the Goddess of Light,

I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.

LYSISTRATA

You'll not flay anything. For if you begin

There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.

3RD WOMAN

O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth
925

Till I have left the precincts of the place!

LYSISTRATA

What nonsense is this?

3RD WOMAN

I'll drop it any minute.

LYSISTRATA

Yesterday you weren't with child.

3RD WOMAN

But I am today.
930

O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata.

O quickly!

LYSISTRATA

Now what story is this you tell?

What is this hard lump here?

3RD WOMAN

It's a male child.
935

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.) — 706 focus

Chorus of Women: mistress of this affair and counsel,

Chorus of Women: Why have you come out of the house in such a gloomy mood?

Lysistrata: Works of bad women and a female mind.

Lysistrata: She makes me sad to walk up and down.

Chorus of Women: What do you say? What do you say?

710

Lysistrata: True, true.

Chorus of Women: But what is terrible? Tell your own friends.

Lysistrata: But it is shameful to speak and heavy to remain silent.

Chorus of Women: Do not now hide from me the evil that we have suffered.

Lysistrata: Let us get on with it, in as few words as possible.

715

Chorus of Women: O Zeus.

Lysistrata: Why are you shouting 'Live!' again? But this is how it is.

Lysistrata: I shall hold them back no longer.

Lysistrata: Such is it from the men; for they are running away.

Lysistrata: the one who first opens the door.

720

Lysistrata: I have taken over the temple of Pan.

Lysistrata: but again the one who has been dragged back from the turning-wheel,

Lysistrata: the one who deserted, the one who was a prostitute on the sparrows'

Lysistrata: already intending to fly down

Lysistrata: Yesterday I pulled out Orsilochus's hair.

725

Lysistrata: all the excuses so that they might depart home

Lysistrata: They are dragging them. Indeed, one of them is already coming.

Lysistrata: Where are you running to?

Woman A: I want to go home.

Woman A: for she is at home, she has Milesian wool for me.

Woman A: being cut down by your troops.

730

Lysistrata: Whose women?

Lysistrata: Are you not here again?

Woman A: But I shall come soon, by the two goddesses.

Woman A: Just enough to spread over the bed.

Lysistrata: do not spread out, nor go anywhere.

Woman A: But let them perish, the goods?

Lysistrata: If this will be needed.

WOMAN B: Woe is me, woe to me for the woman from Amorgos,

735

Woman B: whom I have left behind unthreshed at home.

Lysistrata: the day after tomorrow

Lysistrata: She is setting out for the saltless Amorgos.

Lysistrata: Go back here.

Woman B: but by the Morning Star

Woman B: I, having stripped off [my clothes], am going upstairs at once.

Lysistrata: Do not strike me. For if you begin this, you,

740

Lysistrata: Another woman will wish to do the same thing.

Woman G: O Lady Eileithyia, hold back the birth!

Woman G: Until I have come to a sacred place.

Lysistrata: Why are you talking nonsense about these things?

Woman 3: I will give birth immediately and very quickly.

Lysistrata: But you weren't pregnant yesterday.

745

Woman G: but today.

Woman G: But take me home, as quickly as possible, to the midwife, O Lysistrata.

Woman G: Send her away as soon as possible.

Lysistrata: What story are you telling?

Lysistrata: What is the matter with that harshness?

Woman G: A male child.

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κατέλαβον ᾗ τοῦ Πανός ἐστι ταὐλίον,

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Χορὸς Γυναικῶν ἄνασσα πράγους τοῦδε καὶ βουλεύματος, τί μοι σκυθρωπὸς ἐξελήλυθας δόμων;

Λυσιστράτη κακῶν γυναικῶν ἔργα καὶ θήλεια φρὴν ποιεῖ μʼ ἄθυμον περιπατεῖν τʼ ἄνω κάτω.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν τί φῄς; τί φῄς; 710

Λυσιστράτη ἀληθῆ, ἀληθῆ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν τί δʼ ἐστὶ δεινόν; φράζε ταῖς σαυτῆς φίλαις.

Λυσιστράτη ἀλλʼ αἰσχρὸν εἰπεῖν καὶ σιωπῆσαι βαρύ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν μή νύν με κρύψῃς ὅ τι πεπόνθαμεν κακόν.

Λυσιστράτη βινητιῶμεν, ᾗ βράχιστον τοῦ λόγου. 715

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν ἰὼ Ζεῦ.

Γυνὴ Α οἴκαδʼ ἐλθεῖν βούλομαι. οἴκοι γάρ ἐστιν ἔριά μοι Μιλήσια ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα. 730

Λυσιστράτη ποίων σέων; οὐκ εἶ πάλιν;

Γυνὴ Α ἀλλʼ ἥξω ταχέως νὴ τὼ θεὼ ὅσον διαπετάσασʼ ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης μόνον.

Λυσιστράτη μὴ διαπετάννυ, μηδʼ ἀπέλθῃς μηδαμῇ.

Γυνὴ Α ἀλλʼ ἐῶ ʼπολέσθαι τἄριʼ;

Λυσιστράτη ἢν τούτου δέῃ.

Γυνὴ Β τάλαινʼ ἐγώ, τάλαινα τῆς Ἀμοργίδος, 735 ἣν ἄλοπον οἴκοι καταλέλοιφʼ.

Λυσιστράτη αὕθἠτέρα ἐπὶ τὴν Ἄμοργιν τὴν ἄλοπον ἐξέρχεται. χώρει πάλιν δεῦρʼ.

Γυνὴ Β ἀλλὰ νὴ τὴν Φωσφόρον ἔγωγʼ ἀποδείρασʼ αὐτίκα μάλʼ ἀνέρχομαι.

Λυσιστράτη μή μἀποδείρῃς. ἢν γὰρ ἄρξῃς τοῦτο σύ, 740 ἑτέρα γυνὴ ταὐτὸν ποιεῖν βουλήσεται.

Γυνὴ Γ ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰλείθυιʼ ἐπίσχες τοῦ τόκου, ἕως ἂν εἰς ὅσιον μόλω ʼγὼ χωρίον.

Λυσιστράτη τί ταῦτα ληρεῖς;

Γυνὴ Γ αὐτίκα μάλα τέξομαι.

Λυσιστράτη ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκύεις σύ γʼ ἐχθές. 745

Γυνὴ Γ ἀλλὰ τήμερον. ἀλλʼ οἴκαδέ μʼ ὡς τὴν μαῖαν ὦ Λυσιστράτη ἀπόπεμψον ὡς τάχιστα.

Λυσιστράτη τίνα λόγον λέγεις; τί τοῦτʼ ἔχεις τὸ σκληρόν;

Γυνὴ Γ ἄρρεν παιδίον.

WOMEN Dear Mistress of our martial enterprise, 885 Why do you come with sorrow in your eyes?

LYSISTRATA O 'tis our naughty femininity, So weak in one spot, that hath saddened me.

WOMEN What's this? Please speak.

LYSISTRATA Poor women, O so weak! 890

WOMEN What can it be? Surely your friends may know.

LYSISTRATA Yea, I must speak it though it hurt me so.

WOMEN Speak; can we help? Don't stand there mute in need.

LYSISTRATA I'll blurt it out then—our women's army's mutinied.

WOMEN O Zeus! 895

1ST WOMAN I must get home. I've some Milesian wool Packed wasting away, and moths are pushing through it.

LYSISTRATA Fine moths indeed, I know. Get back within. 910

1ST WOMAN By the Goddesses, I'll return instantly. I only want to stretch it on my bed.

LYSISTRATA You shall stretch nothing and go nowhere either.

1ST WOMAN Must I never use my wool then?

LYSISTRATA If needs be. 915

2ND WOMAN How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax! It's left at home unstript.

LYSISTRATA So here's another That wishes to go home and strip her flax. Inside again! 920

2ND WOMAN No, by the Goddess of Light, I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.

LYSISTRATA You'll not flay anything. For if you begin There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.

3RD WOMAN O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth 925 Till I have left the precincts of the place!

LYSISTRATA What nonsense is this?

3RD WOMAN I'll drop it any minute.

LYSISTRATA Yesterday you weren't with child.

3RD WOMAN But I am today. 930 O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata. O quickly!

LYSISTRATA Now what story is this you tell? What is this hard lump here?

3RD WOMAN It's a male child. 935

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Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

ἄνασσα πράγους τοῦδε καὶ βουλεύματος,

τί μοι σκυθρωπὸς ἐξελήλυθας δόμων;

Λυσιστράτη

κακῶν γυναικῶν ἔργα καὶ θήλεια φρὴν

ποιεῖ μʼ ἄθυμον περιπατεῖν τʼ ἄνω κάτω.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

τί φῄς; τί φῄς;
710

Λυσιστράτη

ἀληθῆ, ἀληθῆ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

τί δʼ ἐστὶ δεινόν; φράζε ταῖς σαυτῆς φίλαις.

Λυσιστράτη

ἀλλʼ αἰσχρὸν εἰπεῖν καὶ σιωπῆσαι βαρύ.

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

μή νύν με κρύψῃς ὅ τι πεπόνθαμεν κακόν.

Λυσιστράτη

βινητιῶμεν, ᾗ βράχιστον τοῦ λόγου.
715

Χορὸς Γυναικῶν

ἰὼ Ζεῦ.

Γυνὴ Α

οἴκαδʼ ἐλθεῖν βούλομαι.

οἴκοι γάρ ἐστιν ἔριά μοι Μιλήσια

ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα.
730

Λυσιστράτη

ποίων σέων;

οὐκ εἶ πάλιν;

Γυνὴ Α

ἀλλʼ ἥξω ταχέως νὴ τὼ θεὼ

ὅσον διαπετάσασʼ ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης μόνον.

Λυσιστράτη

μὴ διαπετάννυ, μηδʼ ἀπέλθῃς μηδαμῇ.

Γυνὴ Α

ἀλλʼ ἐῶ ʼπολέσθαι τἄριʼ;

Λυσιστράτη

ἢν τούτου δέῃ.

Γυνὴ Β

τάλαινʼ ἐγώ, τάλαινα τῆς Ἀμοργίδος,
735

ἣν ἄλοπον οἴκοι καταλέλοιφʼ.

Λυσιστράτη

αὕθἠτέρα

ἐπὶ τὴν Ἄμοργιν τὴν ἄλοπον ἐξέρχεται.

χώρει πάλιν δεῦρʼ.

Γυνὴ Β

ἀλλὰ νὴ τὴν Φωσφόρον

ἔγωγʼ ἀποδείρασʼ αὐτίκα μάλʼ ἀνέρχομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

μή μἀποδείρῃς. ἢν γὰρ ἄρξῃς τοῦτο σύ,
740

ἑτέρα γυνὴ ταὐτὸν ποιεῖν βουλήσεται.

Γυνὴ Γ

ὦ πότνιʼ Εἰλείθυιʼ ἐπίσχες τοῦ τόκου,

ἕως ἂν εἰς ὅσιον μόλω ʼγὼ χωρίον.

Λυσιστράτη

τί ταῦτα ληρεῖς;

Γυνὴ Γ

αὐτίκα μάλα τέξομαι.

Λυσιστράτη

ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκύεις σύ γʼ ἐχθές.
745

Γυνὴ Γ

ἀλλὰ τήμερον.

ἀλλʼ οἴκαδέ μʼ ὡς τὴν μαῖαν ὦ Λυσιστράτη

ἀπόπεμψον ὡς τάχιστα.

Λυσιστράτη

τίνα λόγον λέγεις;

τί τοῦτʼ ἔχεις τὸ σκληρόν;

Γυνὴ Γ

ἄρρεν παιδίον.

WOMEN

Dear Mistress of our martial enterprise,
885

Why do you come with sorrow in your eyes?

LYSISTRATA

O 'tis our naughty femininity,

So weak in one spot, that hath saddened me.

WOMEN

What's this? Please speak.

LYSISTRATA

Poor women, O so weak!
890

WOMEN

What can it be? Surely your friends may know.

LYSISTRATA

Yea, I must speak it though it hurt me so.

WOMEN

Speak; can we help? Don't stand there mute in need.

LYSISTRATA

I'll blurt it out then—our women's army's mutinied.

WOMEN

O Zeus!
895

1ST WOMAN

I must get home. I've some Milesian wool

Packed wasting away, and moths are pushing through it.

LYSISTRATA

Fine moths indeed, I know. Get back within.
910

1ST WOMAN

By the Goddesses, I'll return instantly.

I only want to stretch it on my bed.

LYSISTRATA

You shall stretch nothing and go nowhere either.

1ST WOMAN

Must I never use my wool then?

LYSISTRATA

If needs be.
915

2ND WOMAN

How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax!

It's left at home unstript.

LYSISTRATA

So here's another

That wishes to go home and strip her flax.

Inside again!
920

2ND WOMAN

No, by the Goddess of Light,

I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.

LYSISTRATA

You'll not flay anything. For if you begin

There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.

3RD WOMAN

O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth
925

Till I have left the precincts of the place!

LYSISTRATA

What nonsense is this?

3RD WOMAN

I'll drop it any minute.

LYSISTRATA

Yesterday you weren't with child.

3RD WOMAN

But I am today.
930

O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata.

O quickly!

LYSISTRATA

Now what story is this you tell?

What is this hard lump here?

3RD WOMAN

It's a male child.
935