Aristophanes, Frogs, 164-184

Διόνυσος
νὴ Δία καὶ σύ γε
ὑγίαινε. σὺ δὲ τὰ στρώματ᾽ αὖθις λάμβανε. [165]

Ξανθίας

πρὶν καὶ καταθέσθαι;

Διόνυσος
καὶ ταχέως μέντοι πάνυ.

Ξανθίας

μὴ δῆθ᾽, ἱκετεύω σ᾽, ἀλλὰ μίσθωσαί τινα
τῶν ἐκφερομένων, ὅστις ἐπὶ τοῦτ᾽ ἔρχεται.

Διόνυσος

ἐὰν δὲ μὴ εὕρω;

Ξανθίας
τότε μ᾽ ἄγειν.

Διόνυσος
καλῶς λέγεις.
καὶ γάρ τιν᾽ ἐκφέρουσι τουτονὶ νεκρόν, [170]
οὗτος, σὲ λέγω μέντοι, σὲ τὸν τεθνηκότα:
ἄνθρωπε βούλει σκευάρι᾽ εἰς Ἅιδου φέρειν;

Νέκρος

πόσ᾽ ἄττα;

Διόνυσος
ταυτί.

Νέκρος
δύο δραχμὰς μισθὸν τελεῖς;

Διόνυσος

μὰ Δί᾽ ἀλλ᾽ ἔλαττον.

Νέκρος
ὑπάγεθ᾽ ὑμεῖς τῆς ὁδοῦ.

Διόνυσος

ἀνάμεινον ὦ δαιμόνι᾽, ἐὰν ξυμβῶ τί σοι. [175]

Νέκρος

εἰ μὴ καταθήσεις δύο δραχμάς, μὴ διαλέγου.

Διόνυσος

λάβ᾽ ἐννέ᾽ ὀβολούς.

Νέκρος
ἀναβιοίην νυν πάλιν.

Ξανθίας

ὡς σεμνὸς ὁ κατάρατος: οὐκ οἰμώξεται;
ἐγὼ βαδιοῦμαι.

Διόνυσος
χρηστὸς εἶ καὶ γεννάδας.
χωρῶμεν ἐπὶ τὸ πλοῖον. [180]

Χάρων
ὠὸπ παραβαλοῦ.

Ξανθίας

τουτὶ τί ἔστι;

Διόνυσος
τοῦτο; λίμνη νὴ Δία
αὕτη 'στὶν ἣν ἔφραζε, καὶ πλοῖόν γ᾽ ὁρῶ.

Ξανθίας

νὴ τὸν Ποσειδῶ κἄστι γ᾽ ὁ Χάρων οὑτοσί.

Διόνυσος

χαῖρ᾽ ὦ Χάρων, χαῖρ᾽ ὦ Χάρων, χαῖρ᾽ ὦ Χάρων.


Dionysos:
By Zeus you also
be healthy. And you, take up the baggage again.

Xanthias:
Before it's even been put down?

Dionysos:
And very quickly now indeed!

Xanthias:
Don't let there be need, I beseech you, but hire one of those being carried down [one of the dead borne down], who comes this way.

Dionysos:
And if I don't find one?

Xanthias:
Then I'm to bring them.

Dionysos:
You speak well.
For already they're carrying out some corpse here.
You there! Right, I'm talking to you, you, the dead guy.
My good fellow, do you want to carry a little bag into Hades?

Corpse:
What, how much?

Dionysos:
This one, yes.

Corpse:
Two drachmas you'll pay in wages.

Dionysos:
By Zeus, less!

Corpse:
You, carry me on along the road.

Dionysos:
Wait, O spirits! If I come to some arrangement with you.

Corpse:
If you don't lay down two drachmas, no discussion. [no deal]

Dionysos:
Take nine obols.

Corpse:
Now I'd come back to life!

Xanthias:
How accursed proud! I shan't lament him.
I'll go slowly on.

Dionysos:
Honest you are and noble.
Let's go on to the boat.

Kharon:
O-op! Come alongside.

Xanthias:
What's this?

Dionysos:
This? A lake, by Zeus.
It is the one which he pointed out, and I see the boat.

Xanthias:
By Poseidon! It's Kharon!

Dionysos:
Hey, Kharon! Hey, Kharon! Hey, Kharon!

Aristophanes, Frogs, 185-202

Χάρων

τίς εἰς ἀναπαύλας ἐκ κακῶν καὶ πραγμάτων; [185]
τίς ἐς τὸ Λήθης πεδίον, ἢ σ᾽ Ὄνου πόκας,
ἢ σ᾽ Κερβερίους, ἢ σ᾽ κόρακας, ἢ 'πὶ Ταίναρον;

Διόνυσος

ἐγώ.

Χάρων
ταχέως ἔμβαινε.

Διόνυσος
ποῖ σχήσειν δοκεῖς;
ἐς κόρακας ὄντως;

Χάρων
ναὶ μὰ Δία σοῦ γ᾽ οὕνεκα.
ἔσβαινε δή. [190]

Διόνυσος
παῖ δεῦρο.

Χάρων
δοῦλον οὐκ ἄγω,
εἰ μὴ νεναυμάχηκε τὴν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν.

Ξανθίας

μὰ τὸν Δί᾽ οὐ γὰρ ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυχον ὀφθαλμιῶν.

Χάρων

οὔκουν περιθρέξει δῆτα τὴν λίμνην κύκλῳ;

Ξανθίας

ποῦ δῆτ᾽ ἀναμενῶ;

Χάρων
παρὰ τὸν Αὑαίνου λίθον
ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀναπαύλαις. [195]

Διόνυσος
μανθάνεις;

Ξανθίας
πάνυ μανθάνω.
οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, τῷ ξυνέτυχον ἐξιών;

Χάρων

κάθιζ᾽ ἐπὶ κώπην. εἴ τις ἔτι πλεῖ, σπευδέτω.
οὗτος τί ποιεῖς;

Διόνυσος
ὅ τι ποιῶ; τί δ᾽ ἄλλο γ᾽ ἢ
ἵζω 'πὶ κώπην, οὗπερ ἐκέλευές με σύ;

Χάρων

οὔκουν καθεδεῖ δῆτ᾽ ἐνθαδὶ γάστρων;

Διόνυσος
ἰδού.

Χάρων

οὔκουν προβαλεῖ τὼ χεῖρε κἀκτενεῖς;

Διόνυσος
ἰδού.

Χάρων

οὐ μὴ φλυαρήσεις ἔχων ἀλλ᾽ ἀντιβὰς
ἐλᾷς προθύμως;


Kharon:
Who [wants] rest from evils and troubles?
Who [wants] to be among the Lethe-waters, or go to an ass-shearing,
or to Kerberos, or to the crows, or to Tainaros?

Dionysos:
Me.

Kharon:
Quickly, get in.

Dionysos:
Where do you think you'll steer?
To the crows, really?

Kharon:
By Zeus, yes, you on your account.
Get in already.

Dionysos:
How, here.

Kharon:
I'm not bringing a slave.
Not unless he's fought in the sea-battle about the kings.

Xanthias:
By Zeus, not but for I met with eye-disease.

Kharon:
So you'll walk in a circle around the lake, then?

Xanthias:
Where should I wait, then?

Kharon:
Beside the stone of wasting,
on the resting places.

Dionysos:
You understand?

Xanthias:
Certainly I understand.
Woe is me, ill-fated, [how could] I have fallen in with it?

Kharon:
Sit down at an oar. If someone else is sailing still, let them hurry up.
Hey, what are you doing?

Dionysos:
What am I doing? What other than
sitting on an oar, just as you told me.

Kharon:
You're not sitting like that, pot-belly?

Dionysos:
Look.

Kharon:
So you're putting forth your hands, you stretch out.

Dionysos:
Look.

Kharon:
Don't talk nonsense, but holding, you pull stoutly,
you set us readily in motion.

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Karate today. Technique and application, which is where I always get confused with jujutsu these days. (Jujutsu: get close in and hit. Shotokan: stay at a distance and hit.) Interesting, although I'm responsible for a black eye, alas.