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hawkwing_lb ([personal profile] hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-01-28 04:04 pm

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.




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.

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