[Choir of] : O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live… — Aristophanes
[Choir of] : O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell.
(tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
ΧΟγε. ἀλλὰ μὴ ὥρασ᾿ ἴκοισθ᾿· ὡς ἐστὲ θωπικαὶ φύσει,
κἄστ᾿ ἐκεῖνο τοὔπος ὀρθῶς κοὐ κακῶς εἰρημένον,
"οὔτε σὺν πανωλέθροισιν οὔτ᾿ ἄνευ πανωλέθρων".
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(tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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(tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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(tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
