Τί ταῦτα

why these

Translated by Catharine Roth20 Jan 2014Vetting: high1 revision

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Meaning because of what? Aristophanes [writes]: "why, having these things, do we blame him [sc. Euripides] and bear [it] with difficulty?"

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τί ταῦτα· ἀντὶ τοῦ διατί; Ἀριστοφάνης· τί ταῦτ' ἔχουσαι κεῖνον αἰτιώμεθα βαρέως τε φέρομεν;

Betacode

*ti/ tau=ta: a)nti\ tou= diati/; *)aristofa/nhs: ti/ tau=t' e)/xousai kei=non ai)tiw/meqa bare/ws te fe/romen;

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 473-474 (read 'kei=non), with scholion to 473. (Mnesilochus, disguised as a woman, uses the feminine nominative plural of the participle, e)/xousai; and 'these things' are the many women's secrets Euripides does not know.)

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