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Δικαιόπολις
ὥρα 'στὶν ἤδη καρτερὰν ψυχὴν λαβεῖν,
καί μοι βαδιστέ᾽ ἐστὶν ὡς Εὐριπίδην.
395παῖ παῖ. Κηφισόφων
τίς οὗτος, Δικαιόπολις
ἔνδον ἔστ᾽ Εὐριπίδης; Κηφισόφων
οὐκ ἔνδον ἔνδον ἐστίν, εἰ γνώμην ἔχεις. Δικαιόπολις
πῶς ἔνδον εἶτ᾽ οὐκ ἔνδον; Κηφισόφων
ὀρθῶς ὦ γέρον.
ὁ νοῦς μὲν ἔξω ξυλλέγων ἐπύλλια
οὐκ ἔνδον, αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἔνδον ἀναβάδην ποιεῖ
400τραγῳδίαν. Δικαιόπολις
ὦ τρισμακάρι᾽ Εὐριπίδη,
ὅθ᾽ ὁ δοῦλος οὑτωσὶ σαφῶς ἀπεκρίνατο.
ἐκκάλεσον αὐτόν. Κηφισόφων
ἀλλ᾽ ἀδύνατον. Δικαιόπολις
ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως:
οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἀπέλθοιμ᾽, ἀλλὰ κόψω τὴν θύραν.
Εὐριπίδη, Εὐριπίδιον,
405ὑπάκουσον, εἴπερ τώποτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων τινί:
Δικαιόπολις καλεῖ σε Χολλῄδης, ἐγώ.
Aristophanes. Aristophanes Comoediae, ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 2. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.
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