Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae 1041

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Thesmophoriazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (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.

Editions (1)
Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 1056 focus
Translations (2)
Thesmophoriazusae (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1056 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.) — 1056 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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γόον †φεύγουσαν†
The text presents a clear crux: the reading φεύγουσαν ('fleeing') is widely rejected by modern editors as a corruption. The participle is syntactically anomalous here, as it appears to describe the subject of γόον ('mourning'), yet the context of the Thesmophoriazousai suggests a scene of lamentation rather than flight. Most scholars, following the conjecture of Porson or similar emendations, propose that the original reading was likely γόον κωλύουσαν ('preventing mourning') or a similar construction, or that φεύγουσαν is a dittography or scribal error for a word like φθορούσαν ('destroying') or a reference to a specific mythological figure fleeing a specific act. The manuscript tradition is corrupt at this point, and the reading φεύγουσαν creates a semantic dissonance that requires textual intervention to restore the sense of the passage.