Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae 348

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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.) — 352 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.) — 352 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.) — 352 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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ἢ τῶν κοτυλῶν τὸ νόμισμα διαλυμαίνεται,
The verb διαλυμαίνεται is a hapax legomenon in the surviving corpus of Aristophanes, formed with the suffix -μα- (often indicating the result of an action) on the root of λύω. Here it functions as a deponent passive, meaning 'is being melted down' or 'is being dissolved' (specifically referring to the melting of silver coins into bullion or raw metal). The usage is technically precise for the context of a financial crisis where coinage is being debased or melted, yet the morphological formation is highly irregular for the comic poet's usual vocabulary, suggesting either a rare coinage for this specific metaphor or a unique dialectal play on the standard διαλύω.