Stasimon 1
Socrates.
How? The one with you is ἀλεκτρὺων, and the other is ἀλεκτρὺων also.
Strepsiades.
Yea, by Neptune! How now ought I to call them?
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Socrates.
The one ἀλεκτρύαινα and the other ἀλέκτωρ.
Strepsiades.
Ἀλεκτρύαινα? Capital, by the Air! So that, in return for this lesson alone, I will fill your kardopos full of barley-meal on all sides.
Socrates.
See! See! There again is another blunder! You make κάρδοπος, which is feminine, to be masculine.
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Strepsiades.
In what way do I make κάρδοπος masculine?
Socrates.
Most assuredly; just as if you were to say Κλεώνυμος.
Strepsiades.
How pray? Tell me.
Socrates.
Κάρδοπος with you is tantamount to Κλεώνυμος.
Strepsiades.
Good sir, Cleonymus had no kneading-trough, but kneaded his bread in a round mortar. How ought I to call it henceforth?
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Socrates.
How? Call it καρδόπη, as you call Σωστράτη.
Strepsiades.
Καρδόπη in the feminine?
Socrates.
For so you speak it rightly.
Strepsiades.
But that would make it καρδόπη, Κλεωνύμη.
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Socrates.
You must learn one thing more about names, what are masculine and what of them are feminine.
Strepsiades.
I know what are female.
Strepsiades.
Lysilla, Philinna, Clitagora, Demetria.
Socrates.
What names are masculine?
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Strepsiades.
Thousands; Philoxenus, Melesias, Amynias.
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