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Frogs. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

English (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.) — 1500 focus
Translations (1)
Frogs (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Matthew Dillon). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 1500 focus

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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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καὶ δὸς τουτὶ Κλεοφῶντι φέρων
The imperative δὸς (doce) is followed by the present participle φέρων (pherōn), creating a syntactic construction where the participle expresses the manner of the action rather than a distinct temporal sequence. While the dative Κλεοφῶντι is the indirect object of δὸς, the participle φέρων agrees with the implied subject of the imperative, functioning as a 'manner participle' (participium modale) which is less common than the more frequent 'circumstantial' or 'temporal' uses in Attic comedy, here emphasizing the simultaneity of the giving and the carrying. This construction avoids the potential ambiguity of an aorist participle, which might suggest the carrying preceded the giving.

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Μύρμηκί θʼ ὁμοῦ καὶ Νικομάχῳ,
The vocative Μύρμηκί is a humorous nickname for the tragic poet Aeschylus, derived from his famous opening line in the *Phrygians* ('I was a man of the mountain...') where he describes himself as 'a mole' (or ant-like in his digging of deep thoughts), or more likely a reference to the character's association with the earthy, subterranean world of the dead in this play. The juxtaposition with Nicomachus, a contemporary comic poet (son of the famous comedian Phrynichus), creates a deliberate contrast between the 'old' tragic style and the 'new' comic one, a central theme of the agon in this play.

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τόδε δʼ Ἀρχενόμῳ·
The phrase functions as a speaker tag (titulus) indicating the character addressing Archonome, a figure who is otherwise silent in this scene. The construction uses the dative of the person addressed with the demonstrative τόδε ('this [thing/speech]'), a standard convention in Aristophanic comedy for introducing a character's line, though the specific choice of the dative here rather than a vocative or nominative construction with a verb of speaking reflects the script's convention for attributing lines in the manuscript tradition.