{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0019.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg004.local001","title":"Σφῆκες","titleGreek":"Σφῆκες","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristophanes","authorityName":"ARISTOPHANES Comic.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0019-aristophanes/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0019-aristophanes/","editors":["F. W. Hall","W. M. Geldart"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristophanis Comoediae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1906","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]},{"role":"Digital editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristophaniscomo01arisuoft/page/n185/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristophanes. Σφῆκες. ed. F. W. Hall, W. M. Geldart. Aristophanis Comoediae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"Σωσίας Οὗτος τί πάσχεις ὦ κακόδαιμον Ξανθία; Ξανθίας φυλακὴν καταλύειν νυκτερινὴν διδάσκομαι. Σωσίας κακὸν ἆρα ταῖς πλευραῖς τι προὐφείλεις μέγα. ἆρʼ οἶσθά γʼ οἷον κνώδαλον φυλάττομεν; Ξανθίας οἶδʼ, ἀλλʼ ἐπιθυμῶ σμικρὸν ἀπομερμηρίσαι. Σωσίας σὺ δʼ οὖν παρακινδύνευʼ, ἐπεὶ καὐτοῦ γʼ ἐμοῦ κατὰ τοῖν κόραιν ὕπνου τι καταχεῖται γλυκύ. Ξανθίας ἀλλʼ ἦ παραφρονεῖς ἐτεὸν ἢ κορυβαντιᾷς; Σωσίας οὔκ, ἀλλʼ ὕπνος μʼ ἔχει τις ἐκ Σαβαζίου. Ξανθίας τὸν αὐτὸν ἄρʼ ἐμοὶ βουκολεῖς Σαβάζιον. κἀμοὶ γὰρ ἀρτίως ἐπεστρατεύσατο Μῆδός τις ἐπὶ τὰ βλέφαρα νυστακτὴς ὕπνος· καὶ δῆτʼ ὄναρ θαυμαστὸν εἶδον ἀρτίως. Σωσίας κἄγωγʼ ἀληθῶς οἷον οὐδεπώποτε. ἀτὰρ σὺ λέξον πρότερος. Ξανθίας ἐδόκουν αἰετὸν καταπτόμενον ἐς τὴν ἀγορὰν μέγαν πάνυ ἀναρπάσαντα τοῖς ὄνυξιν ἀσπίδα φέρειν ἐπίχαλκον ἀνεκὰς ἐς τὸν οὐρανόν, κἄπειτα ταύτην ἀποβαλεῖν Κλεώνυμον. Σωσίας οὐδὲν ἄρα γρίφου διαφέρει Κλεώνυμος. Ξανθίας πῶς δή; Σωσίας προσερεῖ τις…","divisions":[{"label":"Prologue 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-1"},{"label":"Parodos 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-2"},{"label":"Agon 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-4"},{"label":"Agon 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-7"},{"label":"Lyric-Scene 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-9"},{"label":"Parabasis 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-10"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-11"},{"label":"Choral 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-12"},{"label":"Episode 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-13"},{"label":"Choral 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-14"},{"label":"Episode 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-15"},{"label":"Exodus 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/#tlg0019-tlg004-local001-16"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0019.tlg004.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019/tlg004/local001.json.gz"}}