Thursday, January 27, 2022
Aristophanes, Knights 69-70
Aristophanes, Knights 69-70 (a slave speaking):
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πατούμενοιThe Knights of Aristophanes Acted at the Lenaean Festival B.C. 424 Translated into Corresponding Metres by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1920), p. 7:
ὑπὸ τοῦ γέροντος ὀκταπλάσιον χέζομεν.
We're sure to catch it thrice as bad from master.Aristophanes, The Eleven Comedies. Literally & Completely Translated from the Greek Tongue into English with Translator's Foreword, an Introduction to each Comedy & Elucidatory Notes (New York: Horace Liveright, n.d.), vol. I, pp. 14-15:
[T]he old man tramples on us and makes us spew forth all our body contains.The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 2: Knights edited and translated with notes by Alan H. Sommerstein (Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1981), p. 17:
[W]e get worked over by the old man and produce eight times as much by the back passage.Aristophanes, Acharnians. Knights. Edited and Translated by Jeffrey Henderson (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 237:
The master will pound on us till we shit out eight times as much.Literally:
Trampled on by the old man we shit eightfold.
