Eleven Comedies,
章节目录
共 214 题- The Athenian Society
- ARISTOPHANES
- THE ELEVEN COMEDIES
- The Second Of Two Volumes
- CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
- INDEX
- THE WASPS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE WASPS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- THE WASPS
- XANTHIAS. Interpreting dreams so aptly certainly deserves two obols.[10]
- PHILOCLEON. Of fig-wood.[31]
- PHILOCLEON. Of Ithaca, son of Apodrasippides.[37]
- PHILOCLEON. The shade of an ass.[38]
- PHILOCLEON. If only they could bring me an image of the hero Lycus.[87]
- PHILOCLEON. Unnecessary, I shall use these vases.[94]
- PHILOCLEON. Well then! and this? what is it if not a clepsydra?[95]
- PHILOCLEON. Descend, descend, descend, descend![104]
- BDELYCLEON. Some call it a pelisse, others a Persian cloak.[130]
- PHILOCLEON. ... such a rogue or such a thief."[141]
- PHILOCLEON. "The two of us have squandered a deal between us."
- BDELYCLEON. By Zeus! But here is the Dardanian wench in person.[153]
- BDELYCLEON. And what is that black part in the middle?[154]
- PHILOCLEON. "Who loiters at the door of the vestibule?"[164]
- XANTHIAS. Go and fill yourself with hellebore.[166]
- PHILOCLEON. His leg kicks out sky-high, and his arse gapes open.[167]
- BDELYCLEON. 'Tis the younger son of Carcinus.[168]
- PHILOCLEON. What is't comes here? A shrimp or a spider?[170]
- FINIS OF "THE WASPS"
- THE BIRDS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE BIRDS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- THE BIRDS
- EUELPIDES. Apollo the Deliverer! what an enormous beak![182]
- EUELPIDES. Well, then, just ask it of my feet.[183]
- EUELPIDES. From the land of the beautiful galleys.[189]
- EPOPS. Are you dicasts?[190]
- EPOPS. Is that kind of seed sown among you?[191]
- EUELPIDES. I? Not at all! I hold the son of Scellias in horror.[192]
- EUELPIDES. Why, 'tis the life of the newly-wed indeed.[196]
- EPOPS. Undoubtedly; indeed he is called flamingo.[203]
- EPOPS. He is called the Mede.[204]
- EUELPIDES. And who is it brings an owl to Athens?[212]
- PISTHETAERUS. The owl will not attack us.[213]
- EUELPIDES. So that the lark's father is buried at Cephalae.[220]
- PISTHETAERUS. She is dazzling all over with gold, like a young girl.[247]
- PISTHETAERUS. Do you like Nephelococcygia?[270]
- PISTHETAERUS. Why not choose Athené Polias?[275]
- PISTHETAERUS. Who then shall guard the Pelargicon?[277]
- A PROPHET. Let not the goat be sacrificed.[289]
- PROPHET.
- METON. Who am I? Meton, known throughout Greece and at Colonus.[294]
- PISTHETAERUS. Meton, you new Thales....[295]
- AN INSPECTOR. Where are the Proxeni?[296]
- PISTHETAERUS. Who is this Sardanapalus?[297]
- INSPECTOR. A decree of Taleas.[299]
- PISTHETAERUS. And I'll smash your urns.[303]
- PISTHETAERUS. Ah! to what use cannot feet be put?[314]
- PISTHETAERUS. What's your name, ship or cap?[318]
- PISTHETAERUS. Paralus or Salaminia?[319]
- PISTHETAERUS. Let a buzzard rush at her and seize her.[320]
- CINESIAS. ... it is seeking fresh outlet."
- CINESIAS. "I want to become a bird, a tuneful nightingale."
- PISTHETAERUS. Stop! easy all, I say![333]
- PISTHETAERUS. What! are you not delighted to be cleaving the air?[334]
- PISTHETAERUS. Do you want to fly straight to Pellené?[339]
- PROMETHEUS. Is it the fall of day? Is it no later than that?[344]
- PROMETHEUS. Their name? Why, the Triballi.[349]
- PISTHETAERUS. Oh, yes! 'tis thanks to you that we roast our meat.[352]
- HERACLES. What are these meats?[364]
- PISTHETAERUS. Ah! Heracles! welcome, welcome! What's the matter?[365]
- PISTHETAERUS. And yet the birds must be thoroughly basted with it.[366]
- POSIDON. Well thought of, by Posidon![367]
- TRIBALLUS. Nabaisatreu.[368]
- TRIBALLUS. Saunaka baktarikrousa.[368]
- HERACLES. He says, "Right willingly."
- FINIS OF "THE BIRDS"
- THE FROGS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FROGS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- THE FROGS
- DIONYSUS. Yes, only not, "I am quite broken up."
- HERACLES. You have dreamt it.[390]
- DIONYSUS. Oh, quite small, like Molon.[392]
- HERACLES. For pea-soup! oh! oh! yes, a thousand times in my life.[393]
- HERACLES. But he is dead.[394]
- HERACLES. And Agathon? Where is he?[397]
- HERACLES. And Xenocles?[398]
- HERACLES. And Pythangelus?[399]
- DIONYSUS. Where cookery is concerned, you can be my master.[402]
- XANTHIAS. They never speak of me.[403]
- HERACLES. Go to the Ceramicus.[406]
- HERACLES. The initiate.[410]
- DIONYSUS. Then it is the Empusa.[418]
- DIONYSUS (_stooping down_). I have just shit myself! Invoke the god.[440]
- AEACUS. There! (_He strikes Xanthias_.)
- DIONYSUS. I see some knights.[450]
- XANTHIAS. Pull out this thorn.[451]
- DIONYSUS. "Oh, Apollo!... King of Delos and Delphi!"
- XANTHIAS. What folk? this mob of rascals? (_Points to the spectators._)
- EURIPIDES. Thanks, but I sacrifice to other gods.[471]
- AESCHYLUS. Well, that was better than telling your own.[478]
- AESCHYLUS. Dionysus, your wine is not redolent of perfume.[503]
- EURIPIDES. "Oedipus was a fortunate man at first ..."
- EURIPIDES. You will wither my prologues with a little bottle?[506]
- DIONYSUS. Come then, continue; but, prithee, no more "assaults."
- AESCHYLUS. "Oh! river Sperchius! oh! meadows, where the oxen graze!"[522]
- EURIPIDES. "Eloquence is Persuasion's only sanctuary."[523]
- AESCHYLUS. "Death is the only god whom gifts cannot bribe."[524]
- EURIPIDES. "With his arm he seized a mace, studded with iron."[526]
- AESCHYLUS. "Chariot upon chariot and corpse upon corpse."[527]
- DIONYSUS. That's true, but the dicasts devour everything.[533]
- DIONYSUS. "Why shameful, if the spectators do not think so?"[535]
- FINIS OF "THE FROGS"
- THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
- The Women's Festival
- INTRODUCTION
- THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
- The Women's Festival
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
- The Women's Festival
- EURIPIDES. What you have to hear.[544]
- MNESILOCHUS. Brououou! brououou! (_Imitates the buzzing of a fly._)
- MNESILOCHUS. I am blind then! I see no man here, I only see Cyrené.[549]
- MNESILOCHUS. Oh! by the gods! (_Resumes his seat._)
- MNESILOCHUS. But this is not I, it is Clisthenes![564]
- MNESILOCHUS. Will they fit me? You like a loose fit.[566]
- MNESILOCHUS. ... who buried her father beneath the bath?[594]
- MNESILOCHUS. There! tit for tat! (_They exchange blows._)
- FOURTH WOMAN. You ask me who I am? I am the wife of Cleonymus.[597]
- MNESILOCHUS (_aside_). I'm a dead man. (_He runs off._)
- CLISTHENES. Who is your tent companion?[600]
- SIXTH WOMAN. I carried it ten months.[606]
- MNESILOCHUS. This robe belongs to the priestess.[609]
- MNESILOCHUS. Here, take it. (_Throws her the Cretan robe._)
- SEVENTH WOMAN. He your father, you rascal! Why, 'tis Phrynondas.[626]
- MNESILOCHUS. "I was given the name of Helen."
- MNESILOCHUS. "This is the palace of Proteus."[628]
- EURIPIDES. "Of what Proteus?"
- EURIPIDES. "What is this shore whither the wind has driven our boat?"
- MNESILOCHUS. "It's Egypt."
- EURIPIDES. "Alas! how far we are from our own country!"
- EURIPIDES. "Is Proteus in these parts?"
- EURIPIDES. "He is no more! Oh! woe! where lie his ashes?"
- MNESILOCHUS. "They want to force me to marry a son of Proteus."
- EURIPIDES. "Who is the old woman who reviles you, stranger lady?"
- MNESILOCHUS. "'Tis Theonoé, the daughter of Proteus."
- EURIPIDES. "What are you saying? Turn your face towards me."
- EURIPIDES. "Are you Grecian or born in this country?"
- MNESILOCHUS. "I am Grecian. But now your name, what is it?"
- EURIPIDES. "Oh! how you resemble Helen!"
- MNESILOCHUS. And you Menelaus, if I can judge by those pot-herbs.[633]
- MNESILOCHUS. Loosen the wedge a little.[638]
- MNESILOCHUS. "Sad death!"
- EURIPIDES. "Oh! virgin! I take pity on your chains."
- CHORUS.
- MNESILOCHUS. That's just what I am doing. [_Exit with Euripides._
- FINIS OF "THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE"
- THE ECCLESIAZUSAE
- Women In Council
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ECCLESIAZUSAE
- Women In Council
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- THE ECCLESIAZUSAE
- Women In Council
- FIFTH WOMAN. Aye, much finer than Epicrates'.[652]
- PRAXAGORA. Hah! she wants to drink![659]
- PRAXAGORA. To him I shall say, "Go and look at a dog's backside".[673]
- PRAXAGORA. Go and eat your excrements![696]
- YOUNG MAN. I am looking for a man from Anaphlystia.[717]
- YOUNG MAN. Alas! I shall become a Procrustes.[723]
- FIRST OLD WOMAN. No man may dispose of anything above a medimnus.[724]
- YOUNG MAN. I shall declare myself a merchant and so escape service.[725]
- FIRST OLD WOMAN. Yes, as surely as if Diomedes had commanded it.[726]
- FINIS OF "THE ECCLESIAZUSAE"
- PLUTUS[*]
- INTRODUCTION
- PLUTUS
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- PLUTUS
- CARIO. And with what responding tones did the sacred tripod resound?[738]
- CHREMYLUS. Is it not he who draws the citizens to the Assembly?[745]
- CARIO. And tell me, is it not you who equip the triremes?[746]
- CHREMYLUS. And who feed our mercenaries at Corinth?[747]
- CARIO. Are not you the cause of Pamphilus' sufferings?[748]
- CARIO. That troops are sent to succour the Egyptians?[752]
- CHREMYLUS. And that Laïs is kept by Philonides?[753]
- CARIO. Of lentils.[755]
- POVERTY. "Oh! citizens of Argos! do you hear what he says?"[776]
- CHREMYLUS. Invoke Pauson, your boon companion, rather.[777]
- CHORUS. [_Missing._][778]
- CARIO. I don't say that, but he's used to tasting shit.[783]
- CHORUS. [_Missing._]
- CHORUS. [_Missing_.]
- JUST MAN. I wish to dedicate it to the god.[790]
- INFORMER. I assume the title, when it serves me.[793]
- CHREMYLUS. Whoever wishes to be.[794]
- CHORUS. [_Missing._]
- CHREMYLUS. Aye, rightly; but he thinks you are no longer alive.[799]
- CHORUS. [_Missing._]
- CARIO. Here, swallow that and be off. (_He discharges a fart._)
- HERMES. Which afterwards you ate up all by yourself.[804]
- HERMES. "Where I live well, there is my country."[806]
- HERMES. Let me intrigue for you.[807]
- FINIS OF "PLUTUS"
- INDEX[*]
- Quiver, pun on word
- Xenocles, an inferior poet
- Zeus, the Deliverer