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Χορός

575ὦ σοφώτατοι θεαταὶ δεῦρο τὸν νοῦν προσέχετε.
ἠδικημέναι γὰρ ὑμῖν μεμφόμεσθ᾽ ἐναντίον:
πλεῖστα γὰρ θεῶν ἁπάντων ὠφελούσαις τὴν πόλιν,
δαιμόνων ἡμῖν μόναις οὐ θύετ᾽ οὐδὲ σπένδετε,
αἵτινες τηροῦμεν ὑμᾶς. ἢν γὰρ ᾖ τις ἔξοδος
580μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷ, τότ᾽ ἢ βροντῶμεν ἢ ψακάζομεν.
εἶτα τὸν θεοῖσιν ἐχθρὸν βυρσοδέψην Παφλαγόνα
ἡνίχ᾽ ᾑρεῖσθε στρατηγόν, τὰς ὀφρῦς συνήγομεν
κἀποιοῦμεν δεινά, βροντὴ δ᾽ ἐρράγη δι᾽ ἀστραπῆς:
ἡ σελήνη δ᾽ ἐξέλειπε τὰς ὁδούς, ὁ δ᾽ ἥλιος
585τὴν θρυαλλίδ᾽ εἰς ἑαυτὸν εὐθέως ξυνελκύσας
οὐ φανεῖν ἔφασκεν ὑμῖν, εἰ στρατηγήσει Κλέων.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως εἵλεσθε τοῦτον. φασὶ γὰρ δυσβουλίαν
τῇδε τῇ πόλει προσεῖναι, ταῦτα μέντοι τοὺς θεοὺς
ἅττ᾽ ἂν ὑμεῖς ἐξαμάρτητ᾽ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον τρέπειν.
590ὡς δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ξυνοίσει ῥᾳδίως διδάξομεν:
ἢν Κλέωνα τὸν λάρον δώρων ἑλόντες καὶ κλοπῆς
εἶτα φιμώσητε τούτου τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα,
αὖθις ἐς τἀρχαῖον ὑμῖν, εἴ τι κἀξημάρτετε,
ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον τὸ πρᾶγμα τῇ πόλει συνοίσεται.

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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