Aristophanes Frogs 185

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

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Χάρων

τίς εἰς ἀναπαύλας ἐκ κακῶν καὶ πραγμάτων;
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τίς ἐς τὸ Λήθης πεδίον, ἢ σʼ Ὄνου πόκας,

ἢ σʼ Κερβερίους, ἢ σʼ κόρακας, ἢ ʼπὶ Ταίναρον;

Διόνυσος

ἐγώ.

Χάρων

ταχέως ἔμβαινε.

Διόνυσος

ποῖ σχήσειν δοκεῖς;

ἐς κόρακας ὄντως;

Χάρων

ναὶ μὰ Δία σοῦ γʼ οὕνεκα.

ἔσβαινε δή.
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Διόνυσος

παῖ δεῦρο.

Χάρων

δοῦλον οὐκ ἄγω,

εἰ μὴ νεναυμάχηκε τὴν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν.

Ξανθίας

μὰ τὸν Δίʼ οὐ γὰρ ἀλλʼ ἔτυχον ὀφθαλμιῶν.

Χάρων

οὔκουν περιθρέξει δῆτα τὴν λίμνην κύκλῳ;

Ξανθίας

ποῦ δῆτʼ ἀναμενῶ;

Χάρων

παρὰ τὸν Αὑαίνου λίθον

ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀναπαύλαις.
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Διόνυσος

μανθάνεις;

Ξανθίας

πάνυ μανθάνω.

οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, τῷ ξυνέτυχον ἐξιών;

Χάρων

κάθιζʼ ἐπὶ κώπην. εἴ τις ἔτι πλεῖ, σπευδέτω.

οὗτος τί ποιεῖς;

Διόνυσος

ὅ τι ποιῶ; τί δʼ ἄλλο γʼ ἢ

ἵζω ʼπὶ κώπην, οὗπερ ἐκέλευές με σύ;

Χάρων

οὔκουν καθεδεῖ δῆτʼ ἐνθαδὶ γάστρων;
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Διόνυσος

ἰδού.

Χάρων

οὔκουν προβαλεῖ τὼ χεῖρε κἀκτενεῖς;

Διόνυσος

ἰδού.

Χάρων

οὐ μὴ φλυαρήσεις ἔχων ἀλλʼ ἀντιβὰς

ἐλᾷς προθύμως;

Διόνυσος

κᾆτα πῶς δυνήσομαι

ἄπειρος ἀθαλάττωτος ἀσαλαμίνιος

ὢν εἶτʼ ἐλαύνειν;
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Χάρων

ῥᾷστʼ· ἀκούσει γὰρ μέλη

κάλλιστʼ, ἐπειδὰν ἐμβάλῃς ἅπαξ,

Διόνυσος

τίνων;

Χάρων

βατράχων κύκνων θαυμαστά.

Διόνυσος

κατακέλευε δή.

Χάρων

ὦ ὀπὸπ ὦ ὀπόπ.

Frogs. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1907.

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Βάτραχοι (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

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Charon

Who's bound for the retreat from strife and woe?
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Who is for Lethe's plain? who comes for donkey's wool?

who for the Cerberians, or the crows, or Taenarus?

Dionysus

That's me.

Charon

Then get in quick.

Dionysus

Where do you think we'll stop?
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At the crows, really?

Charon

Absolutely, just for you.

Get in.

Dionysus

Here, boy.

Charon

I will not take the Slave,
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unless he fought at sea, to save his hide.

Xanthias

Oh God, not me—I happened to have an eye infection.

Charon

Then you must run around the lake.

Xanthias

So where should I wait up?

Charon

By the Stone of Withering
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At the rest-stop.

Dionysus

You hear?

Xanthias

O yes, I hear,

unhappy wretch, whom did I cross when I set out?

Charon

Sit down at the oar,
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If anyone else is sailing, hurry up!

Hey, you, what are you doing?

Dionysus

What am I doing? What else but

sitting on the oar, where you commanded.

Charon

Come, fatso, just sit down there.
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Dionysus

See?

Charon

Grasp the oar, stretch out your hands.

Dionysus

See?

Charon

Stop fooling around; lean your body forward,

And pull with a will.
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Dionysus

How can I row?

Inexperienced, un-seafaring, unSalaminian.

Charon

It's easy. You'll hear songs

most delightful, when once you lay into it.

Dionysus

From whom?
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Charon

The marvelous music of the frogswans.

Dionysus

Then order away!

Charon

Heave ho, heave ho—