Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 571

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Χορός

νῦν δὴ δεῖ σε πυκνὴν φρένα καὶ φιλόσοφον ἐγείρειν

φροντίδʼ ἐπισταμένην

ταῖσι φίλαισιν ἀμύνειν.

καινὴ γὰρ ἐπʼ εὐτυχίαισιν

ἔρχεται γλώττης ἐπίνοια πολίτην

δῆμον ἐπαγλαϊοῦσα
575

μυρίαισιν ὠφελίαισι βίου· δηλοῦν δʼ ὅ τί περ δύνασαι καιρός.

δεῖται γάρ τοι σοφοῦ τινος ἐξευρήματος ἡ πόλις ἡμῶν.

ἀλλὰ πέραινε μόνον

μήτε δεδραμένα μήτʼ εἰρημένα πω πρότερον·

μισοῦσι γὰρ ἢν τὰ παλαιὰ πολλάκις θεῶνται.
580

Ecclesiazusae. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1907.

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Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

Translations (2)

Ecclesiazusae (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 571 focus

Chorus
Singing.

You have served your friends, but now it behooves you to apply your ability and your care to the welfare of the people. Devote the fecundity of your mind to the public weal; 575 adorn the citizens' lives with a thousand enjoyments and teach them to seize every favourable opportunity. Devise some ingenious method to secure the much-needed salvation of Athens ; but let neither your acts nor your words recall anything of the past, 580 for 'tis only innovations that please.

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.) — 571 focus

Chorus: Now you must indeed rouse a dense and philosophical mind.

Chorus: knowing care

Chorus: to defend the friends.

Chorus: for a new one has come to good fortunes.

Chorus: A thought of the tongue comes to the citizen

Chorus: delighting the people

575

Chorus: with countless benefits of life; but the timing shows what you are able to do.

Chorus: For our city needs some clever invention.

Chorus: but only finish it.

Chorus: neither things done nor things spoken before now;

Chorus: for they hate the old things whenever they see them often.

580

Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 571

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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