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Frogs. 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)
Βάτραχοι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 1078 focus
Translations (2)
Frogs (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Matthew Dillon). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1078 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.) — 1078 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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ὑπογραμματέων ἀνεμεστώθη
The verb ἀνεμεστώθη (aorist passive indicative of ἀνεμιοῦν, attested only here in the extant corpus of Aristophanes) is a hapax legomenon constructed from ἀνήμι ('to empty') and the intensive or causative prefix ἀνέ-. In this context, it functions as a vivid, comic neologism describing the scribes' stomachs as having been 'emptied out' or 'hollowed' by hunger, playing on the physical sensation of the 'scribes' (ὑπογραμματέων) being so impoverished they are literally air-filled or empty. The form is a rare instance of Aristophanic morphological invention where a compound verb is formed on the spot to suit the metrical and comic necessity of describing a state of extreme destitution.