Ἀριφράδης
Ariphrades
Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 31 Jul 2001 · Vetting: high · 10 revisions
Translation
This man was reviled for always associating with women. He was a cithara-player.1 Aristophanes [writes]: "Now Ariphrades is a rascal. But he even wants it [that way]; he is not just a rascal -- for [otherwise] I would not even have heard of him -- or an utter knave, but he even invented something [new in the way of vice]. For [he dirties] his own tongue with shameless pleasures."2 That is, the member and the seed of a man. Ariphrades, Polymnestos and Oionichos [were] doers of unspeakable things. And Polymnesteian [poems], too, were mocked for shamefulness.3 "If someone does not really guard himself against such a man, he will never drink out of the same cup with us."4 And again: "Ariphrades, stop acting foolish."5
Greek original
Ἀριφράδης· οὗτος λοιδορεῖται ἀεὶ γυναιξὶ συνών. κιθαρῳδὸς δὲ ἦν. Ἀριστοφάνης· Ἀριφράδης ἐστὶ μὲν πονηρός. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὲν καὶ βούλεται· ἔστι δ' οὐ μόνον πονηρός, οὐ γὰρ οὐδ' ἂν ᾐσθόμην, οὐδὲ παμπόνηρος, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσεξεύρηκέ τι. τὴν γὰρ αὐτοῦ γλῶτταν αἰσχραῖς ᾖδον. τουτέστι τὸ αἰδοῖον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τὸ σπέρμα. Ἀριφράδης δὲ, Πολύμνηστος καὶ Οἰώνιχος ἀρρητοποιοί. καὶ Πολυμνήστεια καὶ αὐτὴ κωμῳδεῖται ἐπ' αἰσχρότητι. εἴ τις οὖν τοιοῦτον ἄνδρα μὴ σφόδρα φυλάττεται, μή ποτ' ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μεθ' ἡμῶν πίεται ποτηρίου. καὶ αὖθις· Ἀρίφραδες, παῦσαι ληρῶν.
Betacode
*)arifra/dhs: ou(=tos loidorei=tai a)ei\ gunaici\ sunw/n. kiqarw|do\s de\ h)=n. *)aristofa/nhs: *)arifra/dhs e)sti\ me\n ponhro/s. a)lla\ tou=to me\n kai\ bou/letai: e)/sti d' ou) mo/non ponhro/s, ou) ga\r ou)d' a)\n h)|sqo/mhn, ou)de\ pampo/nhros, a)lla\ kai\ proseceu/rhke/ ti. th\n ga\r au)tou= glw=ttan ai)sxrai=s h)=|don. toute/sti to\ ai)doi=on tou= a)nqrw/pou kai\ to\ spe/rma. *)arifra/dhs de\, *polu/mnhstos kai\ *oi)w/nixos a)rrhtopoioi/. kai\ *polumnh/steia kai\ au)th\ kwmw|dei=tai e)p' ai)sxro/thti. ei)/ tis ou)=n toiou=ton a)/ndra mh\ sfo/dra fula/ttetai, mh/ pot' e)k tou= au)tou= meq' h(mw=n pi/etai pothri/ou. kai\ au)=qis: *)ari/frades, pau=sai lhrw=n.
Notes (5)
- cf. pi 1988.↩
- 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 129: see below. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Knights 1281-4 (web address 1 below). Comment from the scholia there now follows. What Ariphrades allegedly (here and elsewhere) invented was cunnilingus: see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 185, #389. ↩
- 3The chorus in Knights has gone on to mention these. Polymnestos of Kolophon was a musician and poet of the C7 BCE. ↩
- 4A mis-remembered version of Aristophanes, Knights 1288-89: the verb in the first clause should be 'abominate' (web address 1). ↩
- 5Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 129 (web address 2. (R.G. Ussher ad loc. is unconvinced that this is the same man, thirty years after the earlier allusions.)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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