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Πλούτων
1500ἄγε δὴ χαίρων Αἰσχύλε χώρει,
καὶ σῷζε πόλιν τὴν ἡμετέραν
γνώμαις ἀγαθαῖς καὶ παίδευσον
τοὺς ἀνοήτους: πολλοὶ δ᾽ εἰσίν:
καὶ δὸς τουτὶ Κλεοφῶντι φέρων
1505καὶ τουτὶ τοῖσι πορισταῖς
Μύρμηκί θ᾽ ὁμοῦ καὶ Νικομάχῳ,
τόδε δ᾽ Ἀρχενόμῳ:
καὶ φράζ᾽ αὐτοῖς ταχέως ἥκειν
ὡς ἐμὲ δευρὶ καὶ μὴ μέλλειν:
1510κἂν μὴ ταχέως ἥκωσιν, ἐγὼ
νὴ τὸν Ἀπόλλω στίξας αὐτοὺς
καὶ συμποδίσας
μετ᾽ Ἀδειμάντου τοῦ Λευκολόφου
κατὰ γῆς ταχέως ἀποπέμψω.
Αἰσχύλος
1515ταῦτα ποιήσω: σὺ δὲ τὸν θᾶκον
τὸν ἐμὸν παράδος Σοφοκλεῖ τηρεῖν
καὶ διασῴζειν, ἢν ἄρ᾽ ἐγώ ποτε
δεῦρ᾽ ἀφίκωμαι. τοῦτον γὰρ ἐγὼ
σοφίᾳ κρίνω δεύτερον εἶναι.
1520μέμνησο δ᾽ ὅπως ὁ πανοῦργος ἀνὴρ
καὶ ψευδολόγος καὶ βωμολόχος
μηδέποτ᾽ ἐς τὸν θᾶκον τὸν ἐμὸν
μηδ᾽ ἄκων ἐγκαθεδεῖται. Πλούτων
φαίνετε τοίνυν ὑμεῖς τούτῳ
1525λαμπάδας ἱεράς, χἄμα προπέμπετε
τοῖσιν τούτου τοῦτον μέλεσιν
καὶ μολπαῖσιν κελαδοῦντες.
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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