ΝΕΦΕΛΑΙ

Clouds, Line 1-5: A night that never ends

Before dawn, in a house in Athens. Strepsiades, an old farmer married into the city, lies awake while everyone else sleeps.

Read Line 1-5 word by word in the reader

How it opens, word by word

Strepsiades
ἰοὺioùohἰούioúugh·ὦô—ΖεῦZeûZeusβασιλεῦbasileûlordτὸtòtheχρῆμαchrêmastretchτῶνtônofνυκτῶνnyktônnightsὅσονhósonhow long·

Read on word by word in the reader ›

Line 1-5, passage by passage

Open Line 1-5 in the full reader

From the Great Library

You are reading a page of the Clouds — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.

The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.

Also on our shelves:

❦