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Young Woman: Come here, then, come here, then,

Young Woman: My friend, come here to me.

Young woman: come forward and be my bedfellow.

Young woman: how you will shake the flask.

Young Woman: For some kind of love is very much shaking me.

Young woman: of these your ringlets.

955

Young Woman: And there is something unusual for me to endure.

Young Woman: Desire, which having gnawed me, holds me.

Young woman: let me go, I beg you, Love,

Young Woman: And lead this one into the bedroom.

Young Woman: to come to my supplication.

Ecclesiazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

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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.)

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Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 952 focus

Νεᾶνις

δεῦρο δὴ δεῦρο δή,

φίλον ἐμόν, δεῦρό μοι

πρόσελθε καὶ ξύνευνος

τὴν εὐφρόνην ὅπως ἔσει.

πάνυ γάρ τις ἔρως με δονεῖ

τῶνδε τῶν σῶν βοστρύχων.
955

ἄτοπος δʼ ἔγκειταί μοί τις

πόθος, ὅς με διακναίσας ἔχει.

μέθες, ἱκνοῦμαί σʼ Ἔρως,

καὶ ποίησον τόνδʼ ἐς εὐνὴν

τὴν ἐμὴν ἱκέσθαι.

Translations (1)

Ecclesiazusae (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 952 focus

Young Girl
She sings.

This way, my love, this way, come here and haste to rest the whole night in my arms. I worship your 955 lovely curly hair; I am consumed with ardent desire. Oh! Eros, in thy mercy, compel him to my bed.

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πόθος, ὅς με διακναίσας ἔχει.

The verb διακναίσας (aorist participle of διακναίσω) is a hapax legomenon in extant Greek literature. While the root κναίω ('to scratch' or 'to gnaw') is attested, the intensive compound διακναίσω appears here with a specific metaphorical force of 'gnawing through' or 'devouring from within' that is crucial for understanding the intensity of the speaker's longing (πόθος). This rare lexical formation creates a visceral image of desire as a corrosive, physical force, distinguishing it from more standard metaphors of love as fire or sickness found in contemporary tragedy.

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Young Girl
She sings.

This way, my love, this way, come here and haste to rest the whole night in my arms. I worship your 955 lovely curly hair; I am consumed with ardent desire. Oh! Eros, in thy mercy, compel him to my bed.

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Young Girl She sings. This way, my love, this way, come here and haste to rest the whole night in my arms. I worship your 955 lovely curly hair; I am consumed with ardent desire. Oh! Eros, in thy mercy, compel him to my bed.

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Young Girl
She sings.

This way, my love, this way, come here and haste to rest the whole night in my arms. I worship your 955 lovely curly hair; I am consumed with ardent desire. Oh! Eros, in thy mercy, compel him to my bed.