BOHN'S CLASSICAL LIBRAR'l THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES GEORGE BELL & SONS LONDON: YORK ST., COVEl'oT GARDEN NEW YORK: 66 FIFTH AVENUE, AND BOMBAY: 53 ESPLANADE R.OAD CAMBR.IDGE: DEIGHTON BELL & CO. g~'l-.tf Artffoc61d I/.l THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXTRACTS FROM METRICAL VERSIONS BY \VILLIAM JAMES HICKlE, M.A. VOL. II. LYSISTRATA, THE THESMORPHORIIZUSJE, FROGS, ECCLESIAZUSlE AND PLUTUS. LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1901 BUSWELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY WHEATON COLLEGE WHEATON,IL 60187 • [Reprinted from Stereotype plates.] Ii Y S I s T HAT A. DRAMATIS PERSONlE LYSISTRATA. CALONICE. MYRRHINA. STRATYLLIS. LAMPITO. VARIOUS WOMEN. CHORUS OF OLD MEN. CHORUS OF CLD WOMEN. COMMITTEE·MAN. CINES lAS. A CHILD. HERALD OF THE LACED_E~WNIANS. VARIOUS ATHENIANS. AMBASSADORS OF THE Lo\.C~DiRlIIONIAN5. MARKET-LOUNGEIlS. POLICE. SERVANT. 8c.SI 'fHE ARGUMENT. " Arist"phanu .Av'l'I ..rpar". Scho1. Lysistr. 173, Kaniov apxovroC .,' o~ fl"iJx9" 1'0 opupa. A rg. Lysistr., iOloax911 E1I"1Kaniov apxrvrt'\ roii PEra KAEoKplrov aptavrol:. fiaijnal Of ola KaAAlarparov. Sehol, Lysistr. 1096, i1l"t l:IKEA,a!: lpEAAov 1I"A.iv 1t'pO irwv TEa..al'wV Tij, o:aO.... w!: TOVTOVTO;; opaparo!:. Four years were the actual interval, from the sailing of the expedition, B. c. 415, ~EI'OV!: p ... o;;vro!:, to the Dionysia of the Archon Callias, B. c. 4Il. Musgrave has neglected these testimonies, and has followed Petitus in the chronology of this Play, which he places in 01. 92, 4, or three years below tbe true time." Clinton, Fast; Hellenici, P: 73. Droysen, (Introduction to the Lysistrata, P- 127,) "It has not been recorded whether this play was brought on the stage at the Leneean festival, or at the Dionysia, i, e. in January or !\Iarch of the year 411. According to the internal evidence of the time, the latter would appear the more probable." The plot is this :-Lysistrata, the wife of an Athenian magistrate, takes it into her head to attempt a pacification between the belli- gerents. She summons a council of women, who come to a deter- mination to expel their husbands from their beds, until they con- clude a peace, In the mean time the elder women are commissioned to seize the Acropolis, and make themselves masters of the money which had been stowed therein for the purposes of war. Their design succeeds; and the husbands are reduced to a terrible plight by the novel resolution of their win'S. Ambassadors at length come from the belligerent parties, and peace is concluded ",ilh the greatest despatch, under the direction of the clever L)' si.. U&ta. IJYSISTHATA. [SCE~m-t/tefront ifa house.J Lrs, WnL! if one had summoned them to the temple of Bacchus,' or Pan, or Colias,2 or Genetyllis. it would not even hare been possible to pass through hy reason of the kettle- drums: but now not a single woman is present here ; saving that my neighbour here is coming forth. [Eetnr Calonice.] 'Yelcome, Calonice ! CAJ.ON. And yon too, Lysistrata ! Why are YOll troubled ? Be not of a sad countenance, child! for it does not beseem you to arch 3 Jour eyebrows. Lrs, I am inflamed in my heart, Calonice, and am grently vexed on account of us women, because we are considered among men to be bad ;-- CALON.For,' by .Jove, we are so! Lrs, --and when it was told ~them to meet together here, I "Bacchus was considered libidinous. Eur, Ph. 21, 0 o· ~OOI';; oov/:, Ii,Tf BarXE;OV 1I'E17':'V,;a1l'flpEV ,ip;v 1I'a;oa." Enqer, t "Colias and Genetyllis were by-names of Venus. At the orgies of the above-mentioned deities the kettle-drum (rvp1ruvov) was indis- pensable." Drogsen, "The difference in usage betwr en EI, and I, III the comic writers is this; (I,is used before vowels, I, before con- sonants. The tragic writers so far recede from this rule. as to write Ie before a vowel, when the metre requires it. Cf. Person, Pnef, Hec. p, lvi, On the other side, SE'E'Fritzsche ad Thesm, vs. 657. Elmsley's opinion, (ad Acham, vs. 42,) who would expel it: fr:'T tile comic writers altogether, is plainly false." Enger. • .. ro!o1ro.. iv ruc "</>p;;c' aV17rp''1lf1valIT/lc." ITe.ych:m • Sec Kruger Gr. Gr. ~ 6!l, 32, obs. 21. , Hermann (ViI(. n. 21:ll. Matthia (Gr. Gr. § .564), Kim ((1rE'g. Cor. p, 159), and EngE'r (ad loc ) consider these forms to le nomin4- t.~e~absolute. On the contrary, Kriiger (Gr. Gr. § 56,2, obs, 5) and Idf (Gr. Gr. § 700) consider them lU"cusatives absolute. Philologers 390 LYSISTRATA. to deliberate about no small matter, they sleep, and have not come. CALON". But, my dearest, they will come. Of a truth wo- JUE'nfind it difficult to get out. For one of us goee poking I about her husband, another wakens the servant, another puts the child to bed, another washes hers, another feeds kers with morsels. Lrs, But indeed there were other matters more important for them than these. CALON". What is the matter, dear Lysistrata, for which you summon us women? What is the affair? Of what size is it? Lrs.: Great. CALON. Is it also thick?2 Lrs, And thick, by Jo\'e. CALOY. 'Vhy, how then have we not come?3 Lrs, This is not the fashion of it; for, if it had been 80, we should have quickly assembled. But thereds a certain affair which has been investigated by me, and revolved with much sleeplessness. CALON". Doubtless the matter revolved is somewhat subtle. Lrs, Aye, so subtle, that the safety of aU Greece depends upon 4 the women. ' CALON. Upon the women? Why, it depended 5 on a slight thing then. Lrs. Since" the affairs of the state depend upon us, either that there should be no longer any" Peloponnesians-- would do well to reflect whether the list of accusatives absolute be 1I0t already fuller than can be maintained by fair argument. cr. Vesl>- 1288. I The Scholiast quotes from Sophron, Iv~&le IClnrrci'ov<F.,,).ei<rra. yvvaiA'E". for this use of the aorist, see Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § li3, G, ohs. 3. • "Quod dixit Lysiotratal'iya, accipit Calonice de virili membro, 1Jru"ck. I See Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § 53, 6, obs, 2, and note 0:; Pax, IOi7. • See Hermann, Vig. n. 388. , Enger, objecting to ;xEtr~al l"t rtvo,", a~ an unstatuteahle con ..tructlon, reads "" o:\'iyov oxeir' tip", which is a slight modification )f Dobree's emendation. • See Elmsley's note on Acltarn. VS. 335. , "J,ysistrata was going to add •or any .Athenians,' but stops Jter. e«:lf.lest she should utter any thing ill-omcued for her own country, LYSISTRATA. 391 C.ALON.Then, by Jove, 'tis best they should no longer exist. Ln. --and that all the Boeotlans perish utterly.' ~.AT.O~.Not all, pray; exempt the eels.2 i.n. But about Athens I will utter no such ill language.' Do you conjecture something! else! If the women assemble here, both those from Bceotia, anti those from the Peloponnese, and wefrom Attica, we shall save Greece in common. CALON. What prudent or brilliant action could women accomplish? we, who sit decked ~out, wearing saffron-coloured robes, and beautified, and 1cearing loose Cimmerian vests, and sandals? Lrs. .For6 in truth these are even the very things, which I expect will save us; the little saffron-coloured robes, and the unguents, and the sandals, and the alkanet root, and the trans- parent vests. C.ALO~.In what manner, pray? Lrs, So that none of the men of the present day lift a spear against each other-- CALON.Then, by the two goddesses, I'll get me a saffron robe dyed Brunck, " This passage bas been misunderstood by Brunck, Din- dorf, and Bothe, who think BO.WTiov" Tf in vs, 3.5 corresponds to this rqTE. The Scholiast rightly explains, •P'; 1I'lHl~'''Ta" ;lpil1 pqTE TO;" .A~" ..aio", pqTE TO;'" OE;\.01l'0 .... "O'IVI'" (p,,""T' dval). W" ;.}"l1l'ul'" ai ci1l"0'IW1I'T/f1E1'0;'1: 'A~"vaiovl:.' He might have added ij 1I""f1~~VTa, "';v 'E;\';\'doa aw~ijval,-althougb 1I'''/J~'''Ta!: is scarcely correctv--fcr the correlative to ri in vs. 33, is what is contained in 39-41," Enger • • Cornp. note on Av. 1597. , Compo Acharn. 880. Pax, 1005. a .. hny;\.wTTqO'opal, ominabor. Cf• .lEsch. Prom. 927. Schol. ad Choeph. 1045." Enger. "ill"IYXwO'O'w' i1l'0IwI'ji:ov alii y;\.WTT""." llesychiU8. • .. Aliurl te 'U8l'icari velim. So Pluto 361, ab P'lCEV .il:',l ;'1I'0l'6u rOlOiiTo, hoc i,l meliw accipe:" Brune" " OT( a1l'0;\.ovvTal a"XOl'OT .... Scholiast. .. Have thou a different notion of me." IVheelwngl.t • .. Bessres denk von mir," Dropsen, • .. 'Vho sit dress'd out with flowers, and bearing robes Of saffron hue, and richly broider'd o'er With loose Cimmerian vests and circling sandals." IV/,eelwri'l',t " Zav~i~ta~al' ~ouJltiu~a. rd, rpiXIl~, i, 13.i1TTfu!Jal aUTu,," Ile,ycl.iuI, Menander, "';v YI11'ai",a yap 1'';'' aw'Ppov' oil Ut Td, rp'"af; (al'3cl, "0&1.... Cf. Eustath. 1\. A. p, 82. • ."co Hermann ViI{. n, 29-';. 392 LYSISTRATA. 6~-n. Lrs, --nor take a. shield-- CALO!'~.I'll put on a Cimmerian vest. Lrs, --nor little sword. CALON.I'll get sandals. Lrs. Ought not, then, the women to have been present? CALON.No, by Jove, but to have come flying long ago" Lrs.