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ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

This line is a proverbial expression where the reader must supply the implied predicate (typically 'is not' or 'is no longer'). The phrase functions as a rhetorical denial of the value of the object mentioned; it asserts that Corinth, the city of Aphrodite, has no place in the speaker's current context (here, the underworld). The syntax relies on an elliptical construction common in Greek idiom but opaque without knowledge of the proverb's usage as a negative response to a proposed connection or value.

Frogs. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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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.) — 438 focus

Χορός

μηδὲν μακρὰν ἀπέλθῃς,

μηδʼ αὖθις ἐπανέρῃ με,

ἀλλʼ ἴσθʼ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν θύραν ἀφιγμένος.
440

Διόνυσος

αἴροιʼ ἂν αὖθις ὦ παῖ.

Ξανθίας

τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμα;

ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

Χορός

χωρεῖτε

νῦν ἱερὸν ἀνὰ κύκλον θεᾶς, ἀνθοφόρον ἀνʼ ἄλσος
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παίζοντες οἷς μετουσία θεοφιλοῦς ἑορτῆς·

ἐγὼ δὲ σὺν ταῖσιν κόραις εἶμι καὶ γυναιξίν,

οὗ παννυχίζουσιν θεᾷ, φέγγος ἱερὸν οἴσων.

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.) — 438 focus

Chorus

You needn't go far
515

and don't ask me again,

but know that you've come to the very door.

Dionysus

Pick them up again, my boy.

Xanthias

This business is nothing

but that old cliché “Zeus' Corinth”—it bugs me!
520

Chorus

Onward!

In the sacred round dance of the goddess, in the flower-bearing grove

sporting with all who partake in festival dear to the goddess

I will go with the women and girls

where they dance all night for the goddess, to bring the sacred torch.
525

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.) — 438 focus

Chorus: Do not go very far,

Chorus: and do not come back to me again,

Chorus: But know that you have arrived at that very door.

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Dionysus: would he lift it up again, boy.

Xanthias: What was this affair?

Xanthias: But either Corinth of Zeus is among the mattresses.

Chorus: Go!

Chorus: now a sacred [dance] in a circle of the goddess, flower-bearing through the grove

445

Chorus: playing with those who are present at the god-loving festival;

Chorus: And I, along with the girls and the women, am going.

Chorus: Where they spend the night in honor of the goddess, bringing forth holy light.

Commentary

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ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

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Χορός

μηδὲν μακρὰν ἀπέλθῃς,

μηδʼ αὖθις ἐπανέρῃ με,

ἀλλʼ ἴσθʼ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν θύραν ἀφιγμένος.
440

Διόνυσος

αἴροιʼ ἂν αὖθις ὦ παῖ.

Ξανθίας

τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμα;

ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

Chorus

You needn't go far
515

and don't ask me again,

but know that you've come to the very door.

Dionysus

Pick them up again, my boy.

Xanthias

This business is nothing

but that old cliché “Zeus' Corinth”—it bugs me!
520

Chorus

Onward!

In the sacred round dance of the goddess, in the flower-bearing grove

sporting with all who partake in festival dear to the goddess

I will go with the women and girls

where they dance all night for the goddess, to bring the sacred torch.
525

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Χορός μηδὲν μακρὰν ἀπέλθῃς, μηδʼ αὖθις ἐπανέρῃ με, ἀλλʼ ἴσθʼ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν θύραν ἀφιγμένος. 440

Διόνυσος αἴροιʼ ἂν αὖθις ὦ παῖ.

Ξανθίας τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμα; ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

Chorus You needn't go far 515 and don't ask me again, but know that you've come to the very door.

Dionysus Pick them up again, my boy.

Xanthias This business is nothing but that old cliché “Zeus' Corinth”—it bugs me! 520

Chorus Onward! In the sacred round dance of the goddess, in the flower-bearing grove sporting with all who partake in festival dear to the goddess I will go with the women and girls where they dance all night for the goddess, to bring the sacred torch. 525

Commentary

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Χορός

μηδὲν μακρὰν ἀπέλθῃς,

μηδʼ αὖθις ἐπανέρῃ με,

ἀλλʼ ἴσθʼ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν θύραν ἀφιγμένος.
440

Διόνυσος

αἴροιʼ ἂν αὖθις ὦ παῖ.

Ξανθίας

τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμα;

ἀλλʼ ἢ Διὸς Κόρινθος ἐν τοῖς στρώμασιν.

Chorus

You needn't go far
515

and don't ask me again,

but know that you've come to the very door.

Dionysus

Pick them up again, my boy.

Xanthias

This business is nothing

but that old cliché “Zeus' Corinth”—it bugs me!
520

Chorus

Onward!

In the sacred round dance of the goddess, in the flower-bearing grove

sporting with all who partake in festival dear to the goddess

I will go with the women and girls

where they dance all night for the goddess, to bring the sacred torch.
525