Aristophanes - Aristophanis Lysistrata

STRAT. – Omitte, oh! quid hoc est, viri improbissimi? Nunquam enim probi, aut pii hoc fecissent viri!

CHOR. SEN. – Hanc rem inexpectatam cernimus nobis evenire: mulierum examen foribus 37 37 Leipzig: "mulierum examen foris succurrit." succurrit.

CHOR. MUL. – Quid nos formidatis? numquid multæ videmur esse? atqui partem nostrûm decem-millesimam nondum videtis.

CHOR. SEN. – O Phædria, hasce garrire tam multa sinemus? nonne oportet aliquem nostrûm has verberando baculum frangere?

CHOR. MUL. – Deponamus jam urnas nos etiam humi, ut ne impedimento mihi sit, si quis manum admoverit.

CHOR. SEN. – Næ hercle, si quis jam maxillas istarum, tanquam Bupali, 38 38 Bupalus was a celebrated contemporary sculptor, a native of Clazomenae. The satiric poet Hipponax, who was extremely ugly, having been portrayed by Bupalus as even more unsightly-looking than the reality, composed against the artist so scurrilous an invective that the latter hung himself in despair. Apparently Aristophanes alludes here to a verse in which Hipponax threatened to beat Bupalus. bis aut ter tutudisset, vocem non haberent.

CHOR. MUL. – Atqui en, tundat aliquis: stans ego os præbebo, et nunquam alia canis testiculis te prehendet.

CHOR. SEN. – Ni taces, verberando te senectutis meæ vires exhauriam.

CHOR. MUL. – Accede modo, et digito tange Stratyllida.

CHOR. SEN. – Quid, si contundam eam pugnis? quid mihi facies mali?

CHOR. MUL. – Mordicus tibi pulmones et intestina extraham.

CHOR. SEN. – Non est Euripide poëta sapientior. Nullum enim animal æque impudens est, atque mulieres.

CHOR. MUL. – Tollamus nos aquæ urnam, ô Rhodippe.

CHOR. SEN. – Cur tu, ô diis invisa, huc venisti cum aqua?

CHOR. MUL. – Tu vero cur cum igne, senex Acheruntice? an ut teipsum combusturus? 39 39 Leipzig: "an ut humanum exuras tibi?"

CHOR. SEN. – Ego, ut aggesta pyra incendam tuas amicas.

CHOR. MUL. – Ego vero, ut tuam pyram ista restinguam aqua.

CHOR. SEN. – Tu meum ignem restinguas?

CHOR. MUL. – Res ipsa mox indicabit.

CHOR. SEN. – Nescis, an ista lampade mox te ustulem?

CHOR. MUL. – Si forte sordes habes, balneum tibi præbebo.

CHOR. SEN. – Tu mihi balneum, obsoleta?

CHOR. MUL. – Et quidem nuptiale.

CHOR. SEN. – Audistin' ejus audaciam?

CHOR. MUL. – Enimvero libera sum.

CHOR. SEN. – Reprimam ego tibi hunc clamorem.

CHOR. MUL. – Sed non amplius judex in Heliæa sedebis. 40 40 The Heliasts at Athens were the body of citizens chosen by lot to act as jurymen (or, more strictly speaking, as judges and jurymen, the Dicast, or so-called Judge, being merely President of the Court, the majority of the Heliasts pronouncing sentence) in the Heliaia, or High Court, where all offences liable to public prosecution were tried. They were 6000 in number, divided into ten panels of 500 each, a thousand being held in reserve to supply occasional vacancies. Each Heliast was paid three obols for each day's attendance in court.

CHOR. SEN. – Incende comas ejus.

CHOR. MUL. – Tuæ sunt partes, ô Acheloë.

CHOR. SEN. – Væ misero mihi!

CHOR. MUL. – Num calida erat?

CHOR. SEN. – Quid calida? nonne desines? quid facis?

CHOR. MUL. – Irrigo te, ut regermines.

CHOR SEN. – Sed aridus jam sum et tremulus.

CHOR. MUL. – Itaque, quum ignem habeas, teipsum tepefacies.

PROV. – Satin' emicuit mulierum luxuria, et tympanorum pulsatio, et frequentes Bacchationes, et illa in ædium tectis Adonia 41 41 Women only celebrated the festivals of Adonis. These rites were not performed in public, but on the terraces and flat roofs of the houses. celebrantium lamenta, quæ ego, quum essem in concione, 42 42 The Assembly, or Ecclesia, was the General Parliament of the Athenian people, in which every adult citizen had a vote. It met on the Pnyx hill, where the assembled Ecclesiasts were addressed from the Bema, or speaking-block. audiebam. Demostratus 43 43 An orator and statesman who had first proposed the disastrous Sicilian Expedition, of 415-413 B.C. This was on the first day of the festival of Adonis – ever afterwards regarded by the Athenians as a day of ill omen. enim, dignus ille hercle qui male pereat, dicebat navigandum esse in Siciliam: mulier autem tripudians, hei, hei, Adoni , inquit. Porro Demostratus dicebat milites gravis armaturæ esse conscribendos e Zacyntho: 44 44 An island in the Ionian Sea, on the west of Greece, near Cephalenia, and an ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. mulier autem in tecto temulenta, Plangite Adonin , ait. Contra omni studio enitebatur diis invisus ille et scelestus Cholozyges. 45 45 Cholozyges, a nickname for Demostratus. Tales earum sunt obscenæ cantilenæ.

CHOR. SEN. – Quid, si audias harum insolentiam? quæ tum aliis contumeliis nos adfecerunt, tum etiam effusis urnis nos lavarunt, ita ut vestes nobis quatiendæ sint, tanquam si imminxissemus.

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At Athens more than anywhere the festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus) were celebrated with the utmost pomp – and also with the utmost licence, not to say licentiousness.

Leipzig: "existumant"

An obscene double entendre ; Calonicé understands, or pretends to understand, Lysistrata as meaning a long and thick "membrum virile"!

Leipzig: "optumum"

The eels from Lake Copaïs in Boeotia were esteemed highly by epicures.

Leipzig: "De Athenis autem nil tale ominabor: aliud te suspicari velim.

This is the reproach Demosthenes constantly levelled against his Athenian fellow-countrymen – their failure to seize opportunity.

An island of the Saronic Gulf, lying between Magara and Attica. It was separated by a narrow strait – scene of the naval battle of Salamis, in which the Athenians defeated Xerxes – only from the Attic coast, and was subject to Athens.

A deme, or township, of Attica, lying five or six miles north of Athens. The Acharnians were throughout the most extreme partisans of the warlike party during the Peloponnesian struggle. See 'The Acharnians.'

The precise reference is uncertain, and where the joke exactly comes in. The Scholiast says Theagenes was a rich, miserly and superstitious citizen, who never undertook any enterprise without first consulting an image of Hecaté, the distributor of honour and wealth according to popular belief; and his wife would naturally follow her husband's example.