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Carion: oh, having eaten the same thing many times for the master,

Carion: Friends and fellow-citizens and lovers of toil,

Carion: Come on, hasten, make haste, for the time does not permit delay,

255

Carion: But it is at the very peak, at which one must be present to ward it off.

Chorus: Don't you see that we have long been rushing eagerly?

Chorus: As it is likely, are they weak old men already?

Chorus: Perhaps you wish me to go, before you tell me these things.

Chorus: For whose sake has your master summoned me here?

260

Charon: Haven't I been saying this for a long time now? But you yourself do not listen.

Carion: for the master says that he wants all of you.

Charon: To be released from a life that is cold and difficult.

Chorus: So what is this thing, and where does it come from, that he says?

Carion: He has come here bringing an old man, you villains.

265

Carion: a filthy, hunchbacked, wretched, stinking, filthy, mute man.

Carion: I think, by heaven, that he is also a eunuch.

Chorus: O gold, tell me, how do you say it? Say it to me again.

Chorus: for you show that he is coming having a heap of money.

Carion: So I have, then, a heap of old-age troubles.

270

Chorus: Do you think it right, having tricked [us], then to be rid of [us]?

Chorus: Unworthy, and yet having my staff?

Carion: for certainly man is by nature such in every respect

Carion: Do you lead me to believe that I would think nothing of saying something healthy?

Chorus: How dignified this ragged one is! But your shins are shouting.

275

Chorus: ouch o ouch, longing for the jugs and the chains.

Charios: I was just now chosen by lot to judge your case.

Charon: But you are not walking, and Charon is giving the token.

Chorus: torn, as you are an old man and by nature a mischievous fellow,

Chorus: You who deceive, you have not yet dared to tell us,

280

Chorus: those who, having labored much, when there was no leisure, eagerly

Chorus: We have come here, uprooting the roots of many spirits.

Carion: But I should no longer be able to hide it. For indeed, men, Wealth has come.

Charon: The master is coming, who will make you rich.

285

Chorus: Indeed, is it really possible for all of us to be rich?

Carion: By the gods, indeed, if you take a donkey's ears.

Chorus: How delighted and delighted and I want to dance

Chorus: from pleasure, if indeed you say that these things are true.

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Πλοῦτος Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 2. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 253 focus

Καρίων

ὦ πολλὰ δὴ τῷ δεσπότῃ ταὐτὸν θύμον φαγόντες,

ἄνδρες φίλοι καὶ δημόται καὶ τοῦ πονεῖν ἐρασταί,

ἴτʼ ἐγκονεῖτε σπεύδεθʼ, ὡς ὁ καιρὸς οὐχὶ μέλλειν,
255

ἀλλʼ ἔστʼ ἐπʼ αὐτῆς τῆς ἀκμῆς, ᾗ δεῖ παρόντʼ ἀμύνειν.

Χορός

οὔκουν ὁρᾷς ὁρμωμένους ἡμᾶς πάλαι προθύμως,

ὡς εἰκός ἐστιν ἀσθενεῖς γέροντας ἄνδρας ἤδη;

σὺ δʼ ἀξιοῖς ἴσως με θεῖν, πρὶν ταῦτα καὶ φράσαι μοι

ὅτου χάριν μʼ ὁ δεσπότης ὁ σὸς κέκληκε δῦρο.
260

Καρίων

οὔκουν πάλαι δήπου λέγω; σὺ δʼ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀκούεις.

ὁ δεσπότης γάρ φησιν ὑμᾶς ἡδέως ἅπαντας

ψυχροῦ βίου καὶ δυσκόλου ζήσειν ἀπαλλαγέντας.

Χορός

ἔστιν δὲ δὴ τί καὶ πόθεν τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅ φησιν;

Καρίων

ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τινʼ ὦ πόνηροι
265

ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν·

οἶμαι δὲ νὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ψωλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.

Χορός

ὦ χρυσὸν ἀγγείλας ἐπῶν πῶς φῄς; πάλιν φράσον μοι.

δηλοῖς γὰρ αὐτὸν σωρὸν ἥκειν χρημάτων ἔχοντα.

Καρίων

πρεσβυτικῶν μὲν οὖν κακῶν ἔγωγʼ ἔχοντα σωρόν.
270

Χορός

μῶν ἀξιοῖς φενακίσας ἔπειτʼ ἀπαλλαγῆναι

ἀζήμιος, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ βακτηρίαν ἔχοντος;

Καρίων

πάντως γὰρ ἄνθρωπον φύσει τοιοῦτον ἐς τὰ πάντα

ἡγεῖσθέ μʼ εἶναι κοὐδὲν ἂν νομίζεθʼ ὑγιὲς εἰπεῖν;

Χορός

ὡς σεμνὸς οὑπίτριπτος· αἱ κνῆμαι δέ σου βοῶσιν
275

ἰοὺ ἰού, τὰς χοίνικας καὶ τὰς πέδας ποθοῦσαι.

Καρίων

ἐν τῇ σορῷ νυνὶ λαχὸν τὸ γράμμα σου δικάζειν,

σὺ δʼ οὐ βαδίζεις, ὁ δὲ Χάρων τὸ ξύμβολον δίδωσιν.

Χορός

διαρραγείης, ὡς μόθων εἶ καὶ φύσει κόβαλος,

ὅστις φενακίζεις, φράσαι δʼ οὔπω τέτληκας ἡμῖν,
280

οἳ πολλὰ μοχθήσαντες οὐκ οὔσης σχολῆς προθύμως

δεῦρʼ ἤλθομεν, πολλῶν θύμων ῥίζας διεκπερῶντες.

Καρίων

ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ ἂν κρύψαιμι. τὸν Πλοῦτον γὰρ ὦνδρες ἥκει

ἄγων ὁ δεσπότης, ὃς ὑμᾶς πλουσίους ποιήσει.
285

Χορός

ὄντως γὰρ ἔστι πλουσίοις ἡμῖν ἅπασιν εἶναι;

Καρίων

νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς Μίδαις μὲν οὖν, ἢν ὦτʼ ὄνου λάβητε.

Χορός

ὡς ἥδομαι καὶ τέρπομαι καὶ βούλομαι χορεῦσαι

ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς, εἴπερ λέγεις ὄντως σὺ ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ.

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They enter Chremylus' house.

Cario
To the Chorus, which has followed him in

Come, you active workers, who, like my master, eat nothing but garlic and the poorest food, you who are his friends and his neighbors, 255 hasten your steps, hurry yourselves; there's not a moment to lose; this is the critical hour, when your presence and your support are needed by him.

Leader of the Chorus

Why, don't you see we are speeding as fast as men can, who are already enfeebled by age? But do you deem it fitting to make us run like this before ever telling us 260 why your master has called us?

Cario

I've grown hoarse with the telling, but you won't listen. My master is going to drag you all out of the stupid, sapless life you are leading and ensure you one full of all delights.

Leader of the Chorus

And how is he going to manage that?

Cario

265 My poor friends, he has brought with him a disgusting old fellow, all bent and wrinkled, with a most pitiful appearance, bald and toothless; upon my word, I even believe he is circumcised like some vile barbarian.

Leader of the Chorus

This news is worth its weight in gold! What are you saying? Repeat it to me; no doubt it means he is bringing back a heap of wealth.

Cario

270 No, but a heap of all the infirmities attendant on old age.

Leader of the Chorus

If you are tricking us, you shall pay us for it. Beware of our sticks!

Cario

Do you deem me so brazen as all that, and my words mere lies?

Leader of the Chorus

275 What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! his legs are already shrieking, “oh! oh!” They are asking for the shackles and wedges.

Cario

It's in the tomb that it's your lot to judge. Why don't you go there? Charon has given you your ticket.

Leader of the Chorus

Plague take you! you cursed rascal, 280 who rail at us and have not even the heart to tell us why your master has made us come. We were pressed for time and tired out, yet we came with all haste, and in our hurry we have passed by lots of wild onions without even gathering them.

Aristophanes Wealth 253

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Καρίων

οὔκουν πάλαι δήπου λέγω; σὺ δʼ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀκούεις.

ὁ δεσπότης γάρ φησιν ὑμᾶς ἡδέως ἅπαντας

ψυχροῦ βίου καὶ δυσκόλου ζήσειν ἀπαλλαγέντας.

Χορός

ἔστιν δὲ δὴ τί καὶ πόθεν τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅ φησιν;

Καρίων

ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τινʼ ὦ πόνηροι
265

ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν·

οἶμαι δὲ νὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ψωλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.

Χορός

ὦ χρυσὸν ἀγγείλας ἐπῶν πῶς φῄς; πάλιν φράσον μοι.

δηλοῖς γὰρ αὐτὸν σωρὸν ἥκειν χρημάτων ἔχοντα.

Καρίων

πρεσβυτικῶν μὲν οὖν κακῶν ἔγωγʼ ἔχοντα σωρόν.
270

Χορός

μῶν ἀξιοῖς φενακίσας ἔπειτʼ ἀπαλλαγῆναι

ἀζήμιος, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ βακτηρίαν ἔχοντος;

Καρίων

πάντως γὰρ ἄνθρωπον φύσει τοιοῦτον ἐς τὰ πάντα

ἡγεῖσθέ μʼ εἶναι κοὐδὲν ἂν νομίζεθʼ ὑγιὲς εἰπεῖν;

Χορός

ὡς σεμνὸς οὑπίτριπτος· αἱ κνῆμαι δέ σου βοῶσιν
275

ἰοὺ ἰού, τὰς χοίνικας καὶ τὰς πέδας ποθοῦσαι.

Καρίων

ἐν τῇ σορῷ νυνὶ λαχὸν τὸ γράμμα σου δικάζειν,

σὺ δʼ οὐ βαδίζεις, ὁ δὲ Χάρων τὸ ξύμβολον δίδωσιν.

Καρίων

ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ ἂν κρύψαιμι. τὸν Πλοῦτον γὰρ ὦνδρες ἥκει

ἄγων ὁ δεσπότης, ὃς ὑμᾶς πλουσίους ποιήσει.
285

Χορός

ὄντως γὰρ ἔστι πλουσίοις ἡμῖν ἅπασιν εἶναι;

Καρίων

νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς Μίδαις μὲν οὖν, ἢν ὦτʼ ὄνου λάβητε.

Χορός

ὡς ἥδομαι καὶ τέρπομαι καὶ βούλομαι χορεῦσαι

ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς, εἴπερ λέγεις ὄντως σὺ ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ.

Leader of the Chorus

Why, don't you see we are speeding as fast as men can, who are already enfeebled by age? But do you deem it fitting to make us run like this before ever telling us 260 why your master has called us?

Cario

I've grown hoarse with the telling, but you won't listen. My master is going to drag you all out of the stupid, sapless life you are leading and ensure you one full of all delights.

Leader of the Chorus

And how is he going to manage that?

Cario

265 My poor friends, he has brought with him a disgusting old fellow, all bent and wrinkled, with a most pitiful appearance, bald and toothless; upon my word, I even believe he is circumcised like some vile barbarian.

Leader of the Chorus

This news is worth its weight in gold! What are you saying? Repeat it to me; no doubt it means he is bringing back a heap of wealth.

Cario

270 No, but a heap of all the infirmities attendant on old age.

Leader of the Chorus

If you are tricking us, you shall pay us for it. Beware of our sticks!

Cario

Do you deem me so brazen as all that, and my words mere lies?

Leader of the Chorus

275 What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! his legs are already shrieking, “oh! oh!” They are asking for the shackles and wedges.

Cario

It's in the tomb that it's your lot to judge. Why don't you go there? Charon has given you your ticket.

Cario

I will no longer conceal the truth from you. Friends, it's Plutus 285 whom my master brings, Plutus, who will give you riches.

Leader of the Chorus

What! we shall really all become rich?

Cario

Aye, certainly; you will then be Midases, provided you grow ass's ears.

Leader of the Chorus

What joy, what happiness! If what you tell me is true, I long to dance with delight.

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Καρίων οὔκουν πάλαι δήπου λέγω; σὺ δʼ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀκούεις. ὁ δεσπότης γάρ φησιν ὑμᾶς ἡδέως ἅπαντας ψυχροῦ βίου καὶ δυσκόλου ζήσειν ἀπαλλαγέντας.

Χορός ἔστιν δὲ δὴ τί καὶ πόθεν τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅ φησιν;

Καρίων ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τινʼ ὦ πόνηροι 265 ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν· οἶμαι δὲ νὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ψωλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.

Χορός ὦ χρυσὸν ἀγγείλας ἐπῶν πῶς φῄς; πάλιν φράσον μοι. δηλοῖς γὰρ αὐτὸν σωρὸν ἥκειν χρημάτων ἔχοντα.

Καρίων πρεσβυτικῶν μὲν οὖν κακῶν ἔγωγʼ ἔχοντα σωρόν. 270

Χορός μῶν ἀξιοῖς φενακίσας ἔπειτʼ ἀπαλλαγῆναι ἀζήμιος, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ βακτηρίαν ἔχοντος;

Καρίων πάντως γὰρ ἄνθρωπον φύσει τοιοῦτον ἐς τὰ πάντα ἡγεῖσθέ μʼ εἶναι κοὐδὲν ἂν νομίζεθʼ ὑγιὲς εἰπεῖν;

Χορός ὡς σεμνὸς οὑπίτριπτος· αἱ κνῆμαι δέ σου βοῶσιν 275 ἰοὺ ἰού, τὰς χοίνικας καὶ τὰς πέδας ποθοῦσαι.

Καρίων ἐν τῇ σορῷ νυνὶ λαχὸν τὸ γράμμα σου δικάζειν, σὺ δʼ οὐ βαδίζεις, ὁ δὲ Χάρων τὸ ξύμβολον δίδωσιν.

Καρίων ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ ἂν κρύψαιμι. τὸν Πλοῦτον γὰρ ὦνδρες ἥκει ἄγων ὁ δεσπότης, ὃς ὑμᾶς πλουσίους ποιήσει. 285

Χορός ὄντως γὰρ ἔστι πλουσίοις ἡμῖν ἅπασιν εἶναι;

Καρίων νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς Μίδαις μὲν οὖν, ἢν ὦτʼ ὄνου λάβητε.

Χορός ὡς ἥδομαι καὶ τέρπομαι καὶ βούλομαι χορεῦσαι ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς, εἴπερ λέγεις ὄντως σὺ ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ.

Leader of the Chorus Why, don't you see we are speeding as fast as men can, who are already enfeebled by age? But do you deem it fitting to make us run like this before ever telling us 260 why your master has called us?

Cario I've grown hoarse with the telling, but you won't listen. My master is going to drag you all out of the stupid, sapless life you are leading and ensure you one full of all delights.

Leader of the Chorus And how is he going to manage that?

Cario 265 My poor friends, he has brought with him a disgusting old fellow, all bent and wrinkled, with a most pitiful appearance, bald and toothless; upon my word, I even believe he is circumcised like some vile barbarian.

Leader of the Chorus This news is worth its weight in gold! What are you saying? Repeat it to me; no doubt it means he is bringing back a heap of wealth.

Cario 270 No, but a heap of all the infirmities attendant on old age.

Leader of the Chorus If you are tricking us, you shall pay us for it. Beware of our sticks!

Cario Do you deem me so brazen as all that, and my words mere lies?

Leader of the Chorus 275 What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! his legs are already shrieking, “oh! oh!” They are asking for the shackles and wedges.

Cario It's in the tomb that it's your lot to judge. Why don't you go there? Charon has given you your ticket.

Cario I will no longer conceal the truth from you. Friends, it's Plutus 285 whom my master brings, Plutus, who will give you riches.

Leader of the Chorus What! we shall really all become rich?

Cario Aye, certainly; you will then be Midases, provided you grow ass's ears.

Leader of the Chorus What joy, what happiness! If what you tell me is true, I long to dance with delight.

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Καρίων

οὔκουν πάλαι δήπου λέγω; σὺ δʼ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἀκούεις.

ὁ δεσπότης γάρ φησιν ὑμᾶς ἡδέως ἅπαντας

ψυχροῦ βίου καὶ δυσκόλου ζήσειν ἀπαλλαγέντας.

Χορός

ἔστιν δὲ δὴ τί καὶ πόθεν τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦθʼ ὅ φησιν;

Καρίων

ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τινʼ ὦ πόνηροι
265

ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν·

οἶμαι δὲ νὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ψωλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.

Χορός

ὦ χρυσὸν ἀγγείλας ἐπῶν πῶς φῄς; πάλιν φράσον μοι.

δηλοῖς γὰρ αὐτὸν σωρὸν ἥκειν χρημάτων ἔχοντα.

Καρίων

πρεσβυτικῶν μὲν οὖν κακῶν ἔγωγʼ ἔχοντα σωρόν.
270

Χορός

μῶν ἀξιοῖς φενακίσας ἔπειτʼ ἀπαλλαγῆναι

ἀζήμιος, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ βακτηρίαν ἔχοντος;

Καρίων

πάντως γὰρ ἄνθρωπον φύσει τοιοῦτον ἐς τὰ πάντα

ἡγεῖσθέ μʼ εἶναι κοὐδὲν ἂν νομίζεθʼ ὑγιὲς εἰπεῖν;

Χορός

ὡς σεμνὸς οὑπίτριπτος· αἱ κνῆμαι δέ σου βοῶσιν
275

ἰοὺ ἰού, τὰς χοίνικας καὶ τὰς πέδας ποθοῦσαι.

Καρίων

ἐν τῇ σορῷ νυνὶ λαχὸν τὸ γράμμα σου δικάζειν,

σὺ δʼ οὐ βαδίζεις, ὁ δὲ Χάρων τὸ ξύμβολον δίδωσιν.

Καρίων

ἀλλʼ οὐκέτʼ ἂν κρύψαιμι. τὸν Πλοῦτον γὰρ ὦνδρες ἥκει

ἄγων ὁ δεσπότης, ὃς ὑμᾶς πλουσίους ποιήσει.
285

Χορός

ὄντως γὰρ ἔστι πλουσίοις ἡμῖν ἅπασιν εἶναι;

Καρίων

νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς Μίδαις μὲν οὖν, ἢν ὦτʼ ὄνου λάβητε.

Χορός

ὡς ἥδομαι καὶ τέρπομαι καὶ βούλομαι χορεῦσαι

ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς, εἴπερ λέγεις ὄντως σὺ ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ.

Leader of the Chorus

Why, don't you see we are speeding as fast as men can, who are already enfeebled by age? But do you deem it fitting to make us run like this before ever telling us 260 why your master has called us?

Cario

I've grown hoarse with the telling, but you won't listen. My master is going to drag you all out of the stupid, sapless life you are leading and ensure you one full of all delights.

Leader of the Chorus

And how is he going to manage that?

Cario

265 My poor friends, he has brought with him a disgusting old fellow, all bent and wrinkled, with a most pitiful appearance, bald and toothless; upon my word, I even believe he is circumcised like some vile barbarian.

Leader of the Chorus

This news is worth its weight in gold! What are you saying? Repeat it to me; no doubt it means he is bringing back a heap of wealth.

Cario

270 No, but a heap of all the infirmities attendant on old age.

Leader of the Chorus

If you are tricking us, you shall pay us for it. Beware of our sticks!

Cario

Do you deem me so brazen as all that, and my words mere lies?

Leader of the Chorus

275 What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! his legs are already shrieking, “oh! oh!” They are asking for the shackles and wedges.

Cario

It's in the tomb that it's your lot to judge. Why don't you go there? Charon has given you your ticket.

Cario

I will no longer conceal the truth from you. Friends, it's Plutus 285 whom my master brings, Plutus, who will give you riches.

Leader of the Chorus

What! we shall really all become rich?

Cario

Aye, certainly; you will then be Midases, provided you grow ass's ears.

Leader of the Chorus

What joy, what happiness! If what you tell me is true, I long to dance with delight.