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Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 574-654

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τὸ πρᾶγμα τουτὶ δεινὸν εἰσαγγέλλεται.

CHORUS: Great gods! what is it you tell us! Come, women, let us not lose a moment; let us search and rummage everywhere! Where can this man have hidden himself escape our notice? Help us to look, Clisthenes; we shall thus owe you double thanks, dear friend. CLISTHENES (to a fourth woman). Well then! let us see. To begin with you; who are you? MNESILOCHUS (aside). Wherever am I to stow myself? CLISTHENES: Each and every one must pass the scrutiny. MNESILOCHUS (aside). Oh! great gods! FOURTH WOMAN: You ask me who I am? I am the wife of Cleonymus. CLISTHENES: Do you know this woman? CHORUS: Yes, yes, pass on to the rest. CLISTHENES: And she who carries the child? MNESILOCHUS (aside). I'm a dead man. (He runs off.)

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αὕτη σὺ ποῖ στρέφει; μέν' αὐτοῦ. τί τὸ κακόν;

CLISTHENES (to Mnesilochus). Hi! you there! where are you off to? Stop there. What are you running away for? MNESILOCHUS: I want to relieve myself. CLISTHENES: The shameless thing! Come, hurry yourself; I will wait here for you. CHORUS: Wait for her and examine her closely; 'tis the only one we do not know. CLISTHENES: You are a long time about your business. MNESILOCHUS: Aye, my god, yes; 'tis because I am unwell, for I ate cress yesterday. CLISTHENES: What are you chattering about cress? Come here and be quick. MNESILOCHUS: Oh! don't pull a poor sick woman about like that. CLISTHENES: Tell me, who is your husband? MNESILOCHUS: My husband? Do you know a certain individual at Cothocidae...?

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τὸν δεῖνα γιγνώσκεις, τὸν ἐκ Κοθωκιδῶν;

CLISTHENES: Whom do you mean? Give his name. MNESILOCHUS: 'Tis an individual to whom the son of a certain individual one day.... CLISTHENES: You are drivelling! Let's see, have you ever been here before? MNESILOCHUS: Why certainly, every year. CLISTHENES: Who is your tent companion? MNESILOCHUS: 'Tis a certain.... Oh! my god! CLISTHENES: You don't answer. FIFTH WOMAN: Withdraw, all of you; I am going to examine her thoroughly about last year's mysteries. But move away, Clisthenes, for no man may hear what is going to be said. Now answer my questions! What was done first? MNESILOCHUS: Let's see then. What was done first? Oh! we drank. FIFTH WOMAN: And then?

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τί δὲ μετὰ τοῦτο δεύτερον; προὐπίνομεν.

MNESILOCHUS: We drank to our healths. FIFTH WOMAN: You will have heard that from someone. And then? MNESILOCHUS: Xenylla relieved herself in a cup, for there was no other vessel. FIFTH WOMAN: You trifle. Here, Clisthenes, here! This is the man of whom you spoke. CLISTHENES: What is to be done then? FIFTH WOMAN: Take off his clothes, I can get nothing out of him. MNESILOCHUS: What! are you going to strip a mother of nine children naked? CLISTHENES: Come, undo your girdle, you shameless thing. FIFTH WOMAN: Ah! what a sturdy frame! but she has no breasts like we have. MNESILOCHUS: That's because I'm barren. I never had any children. FIFTH WOMAN: Oh! indeed! just now you were the mother of nine. CLISTHENES: Stand up straight. Hullo! what do I see there? Why, a penis sticking out behind. FIFTH WOMAN: There's no mistaking it; you can see it projecting, and a fine red it is. CLISTHENES: Where has it gone to now? FIFTH WOMAN: To the front. CLISTHENES: No. FIFTH WOMAN: Ah! 'tis behind now. CLISTHENES: Why, friend, 'tis for all the world like the Isthmus; you keep pulling your tool backwards and forwards just as the Corinthians do their ships. FIFTH WOMAN: Ah! the wretch! this is why he insulted us and defended Euripides. MNESILOCHUS: Aye, wretch indeed, what troubles have I not got into now!

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εἰς οἷ' ἐμαυτὸν εἰσεκύλισα πράγματα.

FIFTH WOMAN: What shall we do? CLISTHENES: Watch him closely, so that he does not escape. As for me, I go to report the matter to the magistrates, the Prytanes. CHORUS: Let us kindle our lamps; let us go firmly to work and with courage, let us take off our cloaks and search whether some other man has not come here too; let us pass round the whole Pnyx, examine the tents and the passages. Come, be quick, let us start off on a light toe and rummage all round in silence. Let us hasten, let us finish our round as soon as possible. Look quickly for the traces that might show you a man hidden here, let your glance fall on every side; look well to the right and to the left. If we seize some impious fellow, woe to him! He will know how we punish the outrage, the crime, the sacrilege. The criminal will then acknowledge at last that gods exist; his fate will teach all men that the deities must be revered, that justice must be observed and that they must submit to the sacred laws. If not, then woe to them! Heaven itself will punish sacrilege; being aflame with fury and mad with frenzy, all their deeds will prove to mortals, both men and women, that the deity punishes injustice and impiety, and that she is not slow to strike. But I think I have now searched everywhere and that no other man is hidden among us. SIXTH WOMAN: Where is he flying to? Stop him! stop him! Ah! miserable woman that I am, he has torn my child from my breast and has disappeared with it. MNESILOCHUS: Scream as loud as you will, but he shall never suck your bosom more. If you do not let me go this very instant, I am going to cut open the veins of his thighs with this cutlass and his blood shall flow over the altar. SIXTH WOMAN: Oh! great gods! oh! friends, help me! terrify him with your shrieks, triumph over this monster, permit him not to rob me of my only child. CHORUS: Oh! oh! venerable Parcae, what fresh attack is this? 'Tis the crowning act of audacity and shamelessness! What has he done now, friends, what has he done? MNESILOCHUS: Ah! this insolence passes all bounds, but I shall know how to curb it. CHORUS: What a shameful deed! the measure of his iniquities is full! SIXTH WOMAN: Aye, 'tis shameful that he should have robbed me of my child.

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Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

9 results

1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 105-108, 114-122, 204-368, 370-386, 391, 393-489, 496-556, 560-562, 564, 566-574, 582, 593-625, 75, 89-90, 104 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

104. οὐ λῆψι χρῦσο χαυνόπρωκτ' ̓Ιαοναῦ.

2. Aristophanes, Women of The Assembly, 156-159, 155 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

155. ὕδατος. ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐ δοκεῖ μὰ τὼ θεώ.

3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 355 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

355. καὶ νῦν γ' ὅτι Κλεισθένη εἶδον, ὁρᾷς, διὰ τοῦτ' ἐγένοντο γυναῖκες.

4. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 1008-1132, 1136-1142, 1172-1198, 177-266, 275, 279-573, 575-687, 689-761, 764, 804, 808-809, 941-942, 947-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1000. εὐπέταλος ἕλικι θάλλει.

5. Xenophon, Memoirs, 2.7.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2.7.4. And which do you think are the better, his slaves or your gentlefolk? My gentlefolk, I think. Then is it not disgraceful that you with your gentlefolk should be in distress, while he is kept in affluence by his meaner household? of course his dependants are artisans, while mine have had a liberal education.

6. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 55.5 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Demosthenes, Orations, 24.151 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Lucian, Dialogues of The Courtesans, 4.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations, 1 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acharnians, women at the thesmophoria	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
acharnians	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
achilles	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
acropolis, as ritual location for oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
agora	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
alazoneia (charlatanry, being an impostor)	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
allusion	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
antiphon, anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
apollo, oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
apologia	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
aristophanes, and anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
aristophanes, dicaeopolis in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
aristophanes, metatheatre in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
aristophanes, on disguise	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
aristophanes, works, acharnians	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
aristophanes	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261; MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
athena, oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
athens, comic vision of	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
athens, oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
audience, gregorys	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
basil of caesarea	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
callicles (character in platos gorgias)	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
castor and pollux (twin gods), oaths, invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
chaerephon (character in platos gorgias)	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
christian, leadership	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
deception, and comedy	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
deception, association with rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
decree-proposer	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
demades	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
demeter, informal oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322, 323
dialogue	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
earth (gaia/ge), oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
elm, susanna	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
eros (sexual desire), of barbarians	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 404
euripides, telephus	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
euripides	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
gregory of nazianus, audience	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
gregory of nazianus, or. '2 apologetikos"	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
heckling	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
informal oaths, zeus invoked	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
kleon and descendants	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
kore (persephone) as oath witness	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322, 323
language of oaths, and gender	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 323
lykourgos, policies	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
myth	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
official oaths, on acropolis	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
oracle	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
parody	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
perikles, kin	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
persephone (kore) as oath witness	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322, 323
plato, dialogues	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
plato, gorgias	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
praxagora (ecclesiazusae)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 323
promiscuity, of barbarians	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 404
prostitution, athenian'	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 191
rhetoric, of anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 261
rome	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
sidestepped, twin gods (castor and pollux)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322
socrates	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
telephus	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
telephus (euripides)	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
theoria	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
thesmophoria	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
thoukydides son of melesias	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 528
vita activa	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
vita contemplativa	MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 72
zeus, oaths invoking, gender and	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 322, 323