Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae 1215

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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.) — 1226 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.) — 1226 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.) — 1226 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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ὀρτῶς δὲ συβήνη ʼστί· καταβηνῆσι γάρ.
The form συβήνη (subēnē) is an Atticizing spelling of the Doric/Chian συβόνη (subōnē), referring to the wild boar or the boar-hunting dog, reflecting the comic poet's characteristic mixture of dialects to mock the pretensions of the character speaking. The verb καταβηνῆσι is a Doric form of the aorist subjunctive καταβῆναι (katabēnai), meaning 'to go down' or 'to descend,' here used in a technical sense of a dog following a scent trail downwards or into a den, a usage attested in hunting treatises but rendered here with a dialectal flavor to emphasize the rustic, boorish nature of the speaker's argument.