Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart, 300

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Χορός

ὅρα δʼ ὅπως ὠθήσομεν τούσδε τοὺς ἐξ ἄστεως
300

ἥκοντας, ὅσοι πρὸ τοῦ

μέν, ἡνίκʼ ἔδει λαβεῖν

ἐλθόντʼ ὀβολὸν μόνον,

καθῆντο λαλοῦντες

ἐν τοῖς στεφανώμασιν,

νυνὶ δʼ ἐνοχλοῦσʼ ἄγαν.

ἀλλʼ οὐχί, Μυρωνίδης

ὅτʼ ἦρχεν ὁ γεννάδας,

οὐδεὶς ἂν ἐτόλμα

τὰ τῆς πόλεως διοικεῖν
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ἀργύριον φέρων·

ἀλλʼ ἧκεν ἕκαστος

ἐν ἀσκιδίῳ φέρων

πιεῖν ἅμα τʼ ἄρτον αὑτῷ

καὶ δύο κρομμύω

καὶ τρεῖς ἂν ἐλάας.

νυνὶ δὲ τριώβολον

ζητοῦσι λαβεῖν, ὅταν

πράττωσί τι κοινὸν ὥσ-

περ πηλοφοροῦντες.
310

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.)

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Ecclesiazusae (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 300 focus

Chorus

Let us drive away these men of the city who used 301 to stay at home and 302 chatter round the table in the days when only an obolus was paid, whereas now one is stifled by the crowds at the Pnyx. No! during the archonship of generous Myronides, none would have dared 305 to let himself be paid for the trouble he spent over public business; each one brought his own meal of bread, a couple of onions, three olives 307 and some wine in a little wine-skin. But nowadays we run here to earn the three obols, for the citizen has become as mercenary 310 as the stonemason.

Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 300

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

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