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Chorus: these things are for a man
Chorus: having a mind and understanding and
Chorus: having sailed through many things,
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Chorus: to roll oneself over and over
Chorus: toward the well-built wall.
Chorus: rather than painted.
Chorus: [They] stand like statues, having taken one.
Chorus: a gesture; but to turn around
Chorus: towards the softer [direction].
Chorus: it is to the right of the man.
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Chorus: and by nature, Theramenes.
Dionysus: for it would not be ridiculous, if
Dionysus: Xanthias, although he is a slave, in
Dionysus: on Milesian cushions
Dionysus: with his head thrown back, the hound-
Dionysus: first she asked for a hen, then a quail, I.
Dionysus: but looking toward this one
Dionysus: I was seizing the lever, where-
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Dionysus: but he himself is quite cunning.
Dionysus: He saw it, and then from the jaw
Dionysus: He punched and cut off my nose.
Dionysus: 'the front rows of the chorus?'
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Βάτραχοι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 534 focus
Χορός
ταῦτα μὲν πρὸς ἀνδρός ἐστι
νοῦν ἔχοντος καὶ φρένας καὶ
πολλὰ περιπεπλευκότος,
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μετακυλίνδειν αὑτὸν ἀεὶ
πρὸς τὸν εὖ πράττοντα τοῖχον
μᾶλλον ἢ γεγραμμένην
εἰκόνʼ ἑστάναι, λαβόνθʼ ἓν
σχῆμα· τὸ δὲ μεταστρέφεσθαι
πρὸς τὸ μαλθακώτερον
δεξιοῦ πρὸς ἀνδρός ἐστι
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καὶ φύσει Θηραμένους.
ταῦτα μὲν πρὸς ἀνδρός ἐστι
νοῦν ἔχοντος καὶ φρένας καὶ
πολλὰ περιπεπλευκότος,
535
μετακυλίνδειν αὑτὸν ἀεὶ
πρὸς τὸν εὖ πράττοντα τοῖχον
μᾶλλον ἢ γεγραμμένην
εἰκόνʼ ἑστάναι, λαβόνθʼ ἓν
σχῆμα· τὸ δὲ μεταστρέφεσθαι
πρὸς τὸ μαλθακώτερον
δεξιοῦ πρὸς ἀνδρός ἐστι
540
καὶ φύσει Θηραμένους.
Διόνυσος
οὐ γὰρ ἂν γέλοιον ἦν, εἰ
Ξανθίας μὲν δοῦλος ὢν ἐν
στρώμασιν Μιλησίοις
ἀνατετραμμένος κυνῶν ὀρ-
χηστρίδʼ εἶτʼ ᾔτησεν ἀμίδʼ, ἐγὼ
δὲ πρὸς τοῦτον βλέπων
τοὐρεβίνθου ʼδραττόμην, οὗ-
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τος δʼ ἅτʼ ὢν αὐτὸς πανοῦργος
εἶδε, κᾆτʼ ἐκ τῆς γνάθου
πὺξ πατάξας μοὐξέκοψε
τοῦ χοροῦ τοὺς προσθίους;
οὐ γὰρ ἂν γέλοιον ἦν, εἰ
Ξανθίας μὲν δοῦλος ὢν ἐν
στρώμασιν Μιλησίοις
ἀνατετραμμένος κυνῶν ὀρ-
χηστρίδʼ εἶτʼ ᾔτησεν ἀμίδʼ, ἐγὼ
δὲ πρὸς τοῦτον βλέπων
τοὐρεβίνθου ʼδραττόμην, οὗ-
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τος δʼ ἅτʼ ὢν αὐτὸς πανοῦργος
εἶδε, κᾆτʼ ἐκ τῆς γνάθου
πὺξ πατάξας μοὐξέκοψε
τοῦ χοροῦ τοὺς προσθίους;
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Frogs (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Matthew Dillon). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 534 focus
They change again.
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Chorus
This is the mark of a man
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who's got wit and brains and
has sailed around the block a few times:
to roll himself over
to the prospering side
rather than stand like
635
a graven image, taking a single position.
But to change
for the softer
is the mark of a clever man,
a true Theramenes.
640
This is the mark of a man
630
who's got wit and brains and
has sailed around the block a few times:
to roll himself over
to the prospering side
rather than stand like
635
a graven image, taking a single position.
But to change
for the softer
is the mark of a clever man,
a true Theramenes.
640
Dionysus
Wouldn't this be a laugh, if
Xanthias, my slave, upturned on
Milesian blankets,
kissing his dancing girl,
asked me for a chamber pot,
645
and I, looking right at him,
grabbed his cucumber,
and he, being a bully himself,
saw me, and socked me on the jaw
with his fist, knocking out
650
my front row teeth.
Wouldn't this be a laugh, if
Xanthias, my slave, upturned on
Milesian blankets,
kissing his dancing girl,
asked me for a chamber pot,
645
and I, looking right at him,
grabbed his cucumber,
and he, being a bully himself,
saw me, and socked me on the jaw
with his fist, knocking out
650
my front row teeth.