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Χορός

τῷ γὰρ εἰκὸς ἄνδρα κυφὸν ἡλίκον Θουκυδίδην
ἐξολέσθαι συμπλακέντα τῇ Σκυθῶν ἐρημίᾳ,
705τῷδε τῷ Κηφισοδήμῳ τῷ λάλῳ ξυνηγόρῳ;
ὥστ᾽ ἐγὼ μὲν ἠλέησα κἀπεμορξάμην ἰδὼν
ἄνδρα πρεσβύτην ὑπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς τοξότου κυκώμενον,
ὃς μὰ τὴν Δήμητρ᾽, ἐκεῖνος ἡνίκ᾽ ἦν Θουκυδίδης,
οὐδ᾽ ἂν αὐτὴν τὴν Ἀχαίαν ῥᾳδίως ἠνέσχετο,
710ἀλλὰ κατεπάλαισε μέντἂν πρῶτον Εὐάθλους δέκα,
κατεβόησε δ᾽ ἂν κεκραγὼς τοξότας τρισχιλίους,
περιετόξευσεν δ᾽ ἂν αὐτοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς τοὺς ξυγγενεῖς.
ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ τοὺς γέροντας οὐκ ἐᾶθ᾽ ὕπνου τυχεῖν,
ψηφίσασθε χωρὶς εἶναι τὰς γραφάς, ὅπως ἂν ᾖ
715τῷ γέροντι μὲν γέρων καὶ νωδὸς ὁ ξυνήγορος,
τοῖς νέοισι δ᾽ εὐρύπρωκτος καὶ λάλος χὠ Κλεινίου.
κἀξελαύνειν χρὴ τὸ λοιπόν, κἂν φύγῃ τις ζημιοῦν,
τὸν γέροντα τῷ γέροντι, τὸν νέον δὲ τῷ νέῳ.

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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