Chorus: But I hear of the son of Cleisthenes.
Chorus: in the funerals, an anus
Chorus: to pluck out one's own and tear the jaws;
Frogs. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.
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Chorus
And Cleisthenes I hear
among the tombstones
plucks his rear and rips his cheeks
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And Cleisthenes I hear
among the tombstones
plucks his rear and rips his cheeks
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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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ἐν ταῖς ταφαῖσι πρωκτὸν
The phrase contains a rare and striking instance of the dative of disadvantage or malevolence (dativus incommodi) with a verb of motion implied or elided, where the body part 'prōkton' (anus) is the target of an action not explicitly stated in this fragment but understood from the context of the play's scatological humor. This construction is highly irregular for Aristophanes, who typically employs more explicit verbal constructions even in crude contexts, suggesting a deliberate syntactic compression to heighten the shock value of the insult.