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 The Acharnians 
 
 OF 
 
 Aristophanes 
 
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 of the 
 
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 In the Academy of Music, 
 
 in 
 
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 May 14th and 15th, 1886. 
 
 
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rpHE deme of Acharnai was one of the most important of the demes of Attika, both 
 from its natural advantages and from the large number of its inhabitants. These 
 were by trade wealthy farmers and charcoal burners; but, on account of its geographical 
 position, it was very liable to incursions of the enemy, especially the Boiotians, who 
 strongly sympathized with Sparta. At the date of our play (425 B. C.) the Peloponnesian 
 war had been going on for about six years, and, on account of their severe sufferings, the 
 war feeling of the Acharnians ran high. We are supposed to be at Athens, where the 
 Ekklesia, or Assembly of citizens, is about to be held. Before us are the houses of 
 Dikaiopolis on the right ; of Lamachos, an Athenian general, on the left; and of Euripides, 
 the tragic poet, in the centre. The entrance on the extreme right is appropriated to 
 the characters of the drama coming from home ; that on the extreme left to those coming 
 from abroad. In the distance is seen the Akropolis. In front of the houses are the seats 
 for the Ekklesia, the ten Prytanes, or presidents, being placed on the left of the audience. 
 When the Assembly adjourns these seats are removed ; all these are upon the raised stage 
 for the actors. In front and below this is placed the Orchestra, or stage for the Chorum, 
 which consists of twenty-four Acharnian citizens; in the middle of this Orchestra is the 
 Thymele, or altar of Dionysus. 
 
 The hero of the drama, Dikaiopolis, differs from the Acharnians in his desire to 
 make peace with Sparta, and attends the Ekklesia with the intention of obstructing every 
 motion except one in favor of peace. 
 
 Yerses 1-203. — After some weary waiting on the part of Dikaiopolis, the Assembly 
 comes to order, and Amphitheos, who lays claim to heroic descent, proposes to make a 
 truce with Sparta, and asks for money for traveling expenses, for which he is violently 
 ejected from the Assembly by the constables, in spite of his protests, coupled with those 
 of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 Two Athenian ambassadors now enter, who have been sent to Persia a long time ago on 
 heavy pay; they have spent several years in traveling, and consequently do not appear in their 
 native dress, but in the costume of Phrygia, where they may be supposed to have sojourned for 
 
sometime: they bring with them three pretended Persians (really Athenians in disguise) who 
 try to persuade the Assembly that the Great King will send them money for prosecuting the 
 war : Dikaiopolis recognizes them, but, in spite of his declarations, they are all invited to 
 dinner at the public expense, in the Prytaneion. 
 
 Dikaiopolis, in disgust, calls Amphitheos aside, and sends him' off to Sparta to purchase 
 a peace for himself and his family alone. 
 
 Theoros, another Athenian ambassador, returns from Thrace at this juncture, and brings 
 with him some Thracian light-armed men, whom he wishes the Athenians to hire ; these mer- 
 cenaries steal Dikaiopolis' garlic, which he has incautiously left at his seat, and on Dikaiopolis 
 declaring a portent, a drop of rain, the Assembly adjourns. 
 
 Amphitheos now returns from Sparta with the peace, which Dikaiopolis accepts and 
 retires into his house to prepare for the Dionysiac Festival. 
 
 204-240. — The Chorus of Acharnians appear in search of the traitorous Dikaiopolis, 
 who has dared to make peace with the enemy. Whilst they are in the midst of their wrathful 
 expressions, they hear some one uttering the solemn " Keep ye silence," and Dikaiopolis with 
 his train appears to perform the sacrifice to Dionysus ; the Chorus are thus obliged to fall 
 back to avoid impiety. 
 
 241-392. — Dikaiopolis performs the sacrifice, and, after its completion, the Acharnians 
 attack with stones the procession, which scatters, leaving Dikaiopolis alone on the stage. He 
 offers to explain satisfactorily to the Chorus his reasons for making peace, but they decline to 
 hear him for a long while, though at last they yield under pressure. 
 
 393-495. — Dikaiopolis then concludes to dress himself up as a beggar, in order to excite 
 their sympathy, and goes to the house of Euripides to obtain some "properties; " the author 
 thus satirizes Euripides for the realistic turn he had given to tragedy, a wide departure from 
 the conventional stage setting of Aischylos and Sophokles; after some delay Dikaiopolis 
 gains admission, and Euripides, who is engaged in writing a tragedy, is annoyed at the inter- 
 ruption, but finally gives him what he wants and the Chorus bids him to proceed. 
 
 496-625. — Dikaiopolis then tries to prove to the Chorus the selfishness and narrow- 
 minded views of the war party at Athens, and succeeds in winning over half of them ; a 
 struggle ensues between the two halves, and the war party, which is worsted, calls out 
 General Lamachos to help them ; after mutual recrimination the scene closes with a general 
 declaration of war on the part of Lamachos, and peace on the part of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 626-718. — The Chorus, all of whom now think that Dikaiopolis has made his point, 
 come forward, and the leader, assuming the character of Aristophanes, descants to the audience 
 on the bad political condition of Athens. 
 
 719-859. — Dikaiopolis now opens his market, and the first to appear is a man from 
 Megara, which in time of peace supplied the Athenian market with many of its delicacies ; 
 
but, owing to the ravages of the war, the man has nothing to sell but his two daughters, dis- 
 guised as pigs ; these Dikaiopolis purchases, though he sees through the artifice, of course ; an 
 informer appears but is beaten off by Dikaiopolis and his market-clerks, to-wit : some good 
 stout straps. 
 
 860-958. — A Boiotian farmer brings many dainties to the market, especially a large 
 eel, and takes in payment Nikarchos, the informer, informers being plentiful at Athens, but 
 scarce in Boiotia. 
 
 959-1070. — During his preparations for dinner, Dikaiopolis is interrupted by the 
 attendant of Lamachos, who sends to purchase the eel, but without success. The Chorus sings 
 the Hymn of Peace. 
 
 A Herald now appears, who summons Dikaiopolis to the Feast of Pitchers, a prize being 
 offered to the man who, at the sound of the trumpet, first empties a three quart jug. 
 
 A Farmer enters and asks for a few drops of peace to comfort him for the loss of his 
 oxen during a raid of the Boiotians, but meets with no success. 
 
 Two wedding attendants also beg for a little peace that the bridegroom may avoid con 
 scription during the honey-moon ; they are given a little. 
 
 1071-1142. — A Herald now summons Lamachos from his house to repel an invasion, 
 and whilst Lamachos calls for the various articles of his military equipment, Dikaiopolis calls 
 for the corresponding articles of his equipment for the feast ; and the General finally marches 
 off to the field, and Dikaiopolis to the banquet. 
 
 1143-1234. — The Chorus sing an ode directed against some unpopular character, and 
 then Lamachos appears wounded and lamenting, and, shortly after him, Dikaiopolis in triumph 
 from the feast, having won the prize ; after mocking Lamachos with jibes and jeers, the General 
 is carried off to the surgeon's, while Dikaiopolis invites the Chorus to join him, and all go off 
 to witness him receive the prize. 
 
sometime : they bring with them three pretended Persians (really Athenians in disguise) who 
 try to persuade the Assembly that the Great King will send them money for prosecuting the 
 war : Dikaiopolis recognizes them, but, in spite of his declarations, they are all invited to 
 dinner at the public expense, in the Prytaneion. 
 
 Dikaiopolis, in disgust, calls Amphitheos aside, and sends him' off to Sparta to purchase 
 a peace for himself and his family alone. 
 
 Theoros, another Athenian ambassador, returns from Thrace at this juncture, and brings 
 with him some Thracian light-armed men, whom he wishes the Athenians to hire ; these mer- 
 cenaries steal Dikaiopolis' garlic, which he has incautiously left at his seat, and on Dikaiopolis 
 declaring a portent, a drop of rain, the Assembly adjourns. 
 
 Amphitheos now returns from Sparta with the peace, which Dikaiopolis accepts and 
 retires into his house to prepare for the Dionysiac Festival. 
 
 204-240. — The Chorus of Acharnians appear in search of the traitorous Dikaiopolis, 
 who has dared to make peace with the enemy. Whilst they are in the midst of their wrathful 
 expressions, they hear some one uttering the solemn " Keep ye silence," and Dikaiopolis with 
 his train appears to perform the sacrifice to Dionysus ; the Chorus are thus obliged to fall 
 back to avoid impiety. 
 
 241-392. — Dikaiopolis performs the sacrifice, and, after its completion, the Acharnians 
 attack with stones the procession, which scatters, leaving Dikaiopolis alone on the stage. He 
 offers to explain satisfactorily to the Chorus his reasons for making peace, but they decline to 
 hear him for a long while, though at last they yield under pressure. 
 
 393-495. — Dikaiopolis then concludes to dress himself up as a beggar, in order to excite 
 their sympathy, and goes to the house of Euripides to obtain some "properties; " the author 
 thus satirizes Euripides for the realistic turn he had given to tragedy, a wide departure from 
 the conventional stage setting of Aischylos and Sophokles; after some delay Dikaiopolis 
 gains admission, and Euripides, who is engaged in writing a tragedy, is annoyed at the inter- 
 ruption, but finally gives him what he wants and the Chorus bids him to proceed. 
 
 496-625. — Dikaiopolis then tries to prove to the Chorus the selfishness and narrow- 
 minded views of the war party at Athens, and succeeds in winning over half of them ; a 
 struggle ensues between the two halves, and the war party, which is worsted, calls out 
 General Lamachos to help them ; after mutual recrimination the scene closes with a general 
 declaration of war on the part of Lamachos, and peace on the part of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 626-718. — The Chorus, all of whom now think that Dikaiopolis has made his point, 
 come forward, and the leader, assuming the character of Aristophanes, descants to the audience 
 on the bad political condition of Athens. 
 
 719-859. — Dikaiopolis now opens his market, and the first to appear is a man from 
 Megara, which in time of peace supplied the Athenian market with many of its delicacies ; 
 
but, owing to the ravages of the war, the man has nothing to sell but his two daughters, dis- 
 guised as pigs ; these Dikaiopolis purchases, though he sees through the artifice, of course ; an 
 informer appears but is beaten off by Dikaiopolis and his market-clerks, to-wit : some good 
 stout straps. 
 
 860-958. — A Boiotian farmer brings many dainties to the market, especially a large 
 eel, and takes in payment Nikarchos, the informer, informers being plentiful at Athens, but 
 scarce in Boiotia. 
 
 959-1070. — During his preparations for dinner, Dikaiopolis is interrupted by the 
 attendant of Lamachos, who sends to purchase the eel, but without success. The Chorus sings 
 the Hymn of Peace. 
 
 A Herald now appears, who summons Dikaiopolis to the Feast of Pitchers, a prize being 
 offered to the man who, at the sound of the trumpet, first empties a three quart jug. 
 
 A Farmer enters and asks for a few drops of peace to comfort him for the loss of his 
 oxen during a raid of the Boiotians, but meets with no success. 
 
 Two wedding attendants also beg for a little peace that the bridegroom may avoid con 
 scription during the honey-moon ; they are given a little. 
 
 1071-1142. — A Herald now summons Lamachos from his house to repel an invasion, 
 and whilst Lamachos calls for the various articles of his military equipment, Dikaiopolis calls 
 for the corresponding articles of his equipment for the feast ; and the General finally marches 
 off to the field, and Dikaiopolis to the banquet. 
 
 1143-1234. — The Chorus sing an ode directed against some unpopular character, and 
 then Lamachos appears wounded and lamenting, and, shortly after him, Dikaiopolis in triumph 
 from the feast, having won the prize ; after mocking Lamachos with jibes and jeers, the General 
 is carried off to the surgeon's, while Dikaiopolis invites the Chorus to join him, and all go off 
 to witness him receive the prize. 
 
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 DlKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Herald. 
 
 Amphitheos. 
 
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 Pseud art abas. 
 
 Theoros. 
 
 Chorus of 'Acharnians. 
 
 Wife of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 Daughter of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 Kephisophon. 
 
 Euripides. 
 
 Lamachos. 
 
 A Megarian. 
 
 Daughters of the Megarian. 
 
 A Boiotian. 
 
 NlKARCHOS. 
 
 Attendant on Lamachos. 
 A Farmer. 
 Bridesman. 
 Messenger. 
 
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THE ACHARNIANS. 
 
 Dihaiopolis alone in the Pnyx. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I'm sad and sick at heart ; for few my satisfactions ; 
 They are but four poor things, and then for my distractions, 
 They are sand mountain-fold. Come let me count my treasure. 
 What was it I enjoyed worthy the name of pleasure? 
 Ah ! yes, the sight of those five talents brought to light, 
 When Kleon threw them up ; that was a true delight. 
 I thank the Knights for it, it was their doing, and 
 Done worthily of Greece. But, on the other hand, 
 That was a tragic trouble — when my mouth was wide 
 Expecting Aischylos, and then the herald cried — 
 " Theognis, lead the Chorus in ; " 'twill be believed 
 How very dreadful was the shock my heart received. 
 But then I own, it cheered me up, and made me laugh 
 To see Dexitheos come in upon the calf 
 To sing Boiotian ; but when Chairis thrust his head 
 Upon the stage to pipe the Orthian I was dead ! 
 But never since the day when first I knew the touch 
 Of soft soap on my eyelids did I smart so much 
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 And shifting here and there to dodge the scarlet cord ; 
 Here are not even Presidents ! some hours too late 
 Will they rush in and set their elbows to debate 
 About the foremost bench. And what care they for Peace ? 
 Oh ! City, City, how shall our discords cease ? 
 Here, day by day, the first to come, I sit alone 
 And look about me, gape, I stretch my limbs and groan ; 
 I don't know what to do ; I scribble, pluck my hair, 
 I calculate, I let my eye rove here and there, 
 I see the fields afar, and let my heart go longing ; 
 I hate the City ways ; and thoughts of home come thronging ! 
 Oh, for my borough home ! where no one says, " Come buy 
 Coals, vinegar or oil;" we do not know the cry — 
 For who would buy the things which every farm produces ? 
 But I have yet my plan to deal with these abuses. 
 Yes, they may try to speak ; but no one shall be heard 
 For noise and jeering who shall dare to speak a word 
 Except about a Peace. But here they are with noon, 
 These Presidents ! exactly as I said ; and soon 
 Will follow, I predict, that hustle for a place. 
 
 Enter the Prytanes, a Herald, Constables, etc. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Move forward there ! move forward all of ye ! 
 Further ! within the consecrated ground. 
 
 Enter Ekklesia followed by Amphitheos. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 *r? T?AS anybody spoken ? 
 
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 Is any body prepared to speak ? 
 
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AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Yes, I. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Who are you and what ? 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Amphitheos, the demigod. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Not a man ? 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 No I'm immortal ; for the first Amphitheos 
 
 Was born of Ceres and Triptolemos, 
 
 His only son was Keleos, Keleos married 
 
 Phainarete my grandmother, Lykinos 
 
 My father, was their son ; that's proof enough 
 
 Of the immortality in our family. 
 
 The Gods moreover have dispatched me here 
 
 Commission' d specially to arrange a peace 
 
 Betwixt this city and Sparta — notwithstanding 
 
 I find myself rather in want at present 
 
 Of a little ready money for my journey. 
 
 The magistrates won't assist me. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Constables ! 
 
 Keleos and Triptolemos don't forsake me ! 
 
 [Amphitheos is hustled out by the constables. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 You presidents, I say ! you exceed your powers ; 
 You insult the assembly, dragging off a man 
 That offered to make terms and give us peace. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Keep silence there. 
 
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DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 By Jove, but I won't be silent 
 Except I hear a motion about peace. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Ho there ! the Ambassadors from the King of Persia. 
 
 Enter two Ambassadors dressed in Phrygian garments. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What King of Persia ? what Ambassadors ? 
 I'm sick of foreigners and foreign animals, 
 Peacocks and coxcombs and Ambassadors. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Keep silence there. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What's here ? What dress is that ? 
 In the name of Ekbatana ! What does it mean ? 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 You sent us when Euthymenes was Archon, 
 Some few years back, ambassadors to Persia, 
 With an appointment of two drachmas each 
 For daily maintenance. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Alas poor drachmas ! 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 'Twas no such easy service, I can tell you, 
 No trifling inconvenience to be dragg'd 
 Along those dusty dull Kaystrian plains, 
 Smother'd with cushions in the traveling chariots, 
 Obliged to lodge at night in our pavilions, 
 Jaded and hack'd to death. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 My service then 
 Was an easy one, you think ! on guard all night, 
 In the open air, at the outposts, on a mat. 
 
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 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 .... At our reception we were forced to drink 
 Strong luscious wine in cups of gold and crystal. . . 
 
 DIKAI0P0LIS. 
 
 rock of Athens ! sure thy very stones 
 Should mutiny at such open mockery ! 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 .... with the Barbarians 'tis the test of manhood. 
 There the great drinkers are the greatest men. . . . 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 As debauchees and coxcombs are with us. 
 
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 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 Three years and something more of this brought us at last 
 To the King's palace : there they brought for our repast 
 Whole oxen from the oven. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Home-baked bullocks ! lies ! 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 Yes, and by Jove, a bird of most enormous size, 
 At least three times the figure of Kleonymos, 
 The name of it was Chetah. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 You are cheating us 
 With your two drachmas. 
 
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 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 Finally, 
 We've brought you here a nobleman, Pseudartabas 
 By name, by rank and office the King's Eye. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 God send a crow to peck it out, I say, 
 
 And yours the Ambassador's into the bargain ! 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Let the King's Eye come forward. 
 
 [Pseudartabas advances with two Persians. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Hercules ! 
 What's here ? an eye for the head of a ship ! what point, 
 What headland is he weathering ? what's your course ? 
 What makes you steer so steadily and so slowly ? 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 Come now, Pseudartabas, stand forth ; declare 
 The King's intentions to the Athenian people. 
 
 PSEUDARTABAS. 
 
 Iartaman exarksan apissonai satra. 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 You understand it ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No, by Jove, not I. 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 He says the King intends to send us gold. 
 Explain about the gold ; speak more distinctly. 
 
 PSEUDARTABAS. 
 
 Sen gooly Jaonau aphooly chest. 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 Well, that's distinct enough ! 
 
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■ II— — — — — 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 What does he say ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 That it's a foolish jest for the Ionians 
 
 To imagine that the king would send them gold. 
 
 AMBASSADOR. 
 
 No, no ! — He's telling you of chests full of gold. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What chests ? You're an imposter — stand away, 
 Keep off; and let me alone to question him. 
 You, sir, you Persian ! answer me distinctly 
 And plainly, in the presence of this fist of mine ; 
 On pain of a royal purple bloody nose, 
 Will the king send us gold, or will he not ? 
 
 \_Pseudartabas shakes Ms head. 
 Have our Ambassadors bamboozled us ? \_Pseudartabas nods assent. 
 These fellows nod to us in the Grecian fashion ; 
 They're some of our own people, I'll be bound, 
 One of those eunuchs there I'm sure I know ; 
 I'm positive it's Kleisthenes the Siburtian. 
 How durst you, you baboon, with such a beard, 
 
 To pass yourself upon us for a eunuch ? 
 
 And who's this other ? Sure enough it's Strato ! 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Silence there ! Keep your seats ! 
 
 The senate have invited the King's Eye 
 
 To feast with them in the Prytaneion. 
 
 \_Pseudartabas and the Persians retire. 
 dikaiopolis. {Aside.) 
 There— 
 Ain't it enough to drive one mad ? to drive xme 
 To hang himself ? to be kept here in attendance, 
 
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NAAAAAAAAAAAA^ 
 
 Working myself into a strangury ; 
 Whilst every door flies open to these fellows. 
 But I'll do something desperate and decided. 
 Where is Amphitheos got to ? 
 
 Enter Amphitheos. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Here am I. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 There — take you these eight drachmas on my part, 
 
 And make a separate peace for me with Sparta, 
 
 For me, my wife and children and maidservants. [Exit Amph. 
 
 And you — go on with your embassies and fooleries. 
 
 [Spoken to the Prytanes. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Theoros, our ambassador into Thrace, 
 Return' d from King Sitalkes ! 
 
 Enter Theoros and Thracian warriors, 
 
 THEOROS. 
 
 ERE AM I. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 More coxcombs call'd for ! Here's another coming. 
 
 THEOROS. 
 
 We should not have remained so long in Thrace . . . 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 If you had not been overpaid I know you wouldn't. 
 
 THEOROS. 
 
 but for the snow, which cover'd all the country, 
 
 And buried up the roads, and froze the rivers. 
 'Twas singular this change of weather happen'd 
 Just when Theognis here, our frosty poet, 
 Brought out his tragedy. — We past our time 
 In drinking with Sitalkes. He's your friend, 
 
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 TTOICOV 'OBoflduTCOV ,' eM f^Oi, TOVTL Ti 7)V ,' 
 
 Tt? t&v 'OSofAoivTCDv to 7reo9 diroTeOplaKev ; 
 
tikkkktkkkUHUHkk 
 
 Your friend and lover, if there ever was one, 
 
 And writes the name of Athens on his walls. 
 
 His son, your new-made fellow-citizen, 
 
 Had wish'd to have been enroll'd in proper form 
 
 At the Apaturian festival ; and meanwhile, 
 
 During his absence, earnestly desires 
 
 That the Apaturian sausages may be sent him. 
 
 He is urgent with his father to befriend 
 
 His newly-adopted countrymen ; and in fine 
 
 Sitalkes has been so far work'd upon, 
 
 He has sworn at last his solemn Thracian oath, 
 
 Standing before the sacrifice, to send 
 
 Such an army, he said, that all the Athenian people 
 
 Shall think that there's a flight of locusts coming. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Then hang me if I believe a word about it, 
 Except their being locusts ; that seems likely. 
 
 THEOROS. 
 
 And now he has sent some warriors from a tribe 
 The fiercest in all Thrace. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, come — that's fair. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 The Thracians that came hither with Theoros ! 
 Let them come forward ! 
 
 [Thracian warriors come forward. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What the plague are these ? 
 
 THEOROS. 
 
 The Odomantian army. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The Odomantians ? 
 Thracians ? and what has brought them here from Thrace ? 
 
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 THEOROS. 
 
 There are a race of fellows, if you'd hire 'em, 
 Only at a couple of drachmas daily pay ; 
 With their light javelins, and their little bucklers, 
 They'd worry and skirmish over all Boiotia. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Two drachmas for those scarecrows ! and our seamen, 
 What would they say to it ? — left in arrears, 
 Poor fellows, that are our support and safeguard. 
 
 [The Thracian warriors steal Dikaiopolis garlic. 
 Out, out upon it ! I'm a plundered man. 
 I'm robb'd and ruin'd here with the Odomantians. 
 They're seizing upon my garlic. 
 
 THEOROS. rw. c x. 
 
 On, tor shame, 
 
 Let the man's garlic alone. You shabby fellow, 
 
 You countryman, take care what you're about ; 
 
 Don't venture near them when they're primed with garlic. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 You Magistrates, have you the face to see it, 
 With your own eyes — your fellow-citizen 
 Here, in the city itself, robb'd by barbarians ? 
 
 But I forbid the assembly. There's a change 
 
 In the heaven ! I felt a drop of rain ! I'm witness ! 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 The Thracians must withdraw, to attend again 
 
 The first of the next month. The assembly is closed. 
 
 [Exeunt all but Dikaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Lord help me, what a luncheon have I lost ! 
 
 But there's Amphitheos coming back from Sparta. 
 
 Welcome Amphitheos ! [Enter Amphitheos in haste. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 I'm not welcome yet, 
 There are the Acharnians pursuing me ! 
 
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•u- . DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 How so ! 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 I was coming here to bring the Treaties, 
 
 But a parcel of old Acharnians smelt me out, 
 
 Case harden'd, old, inveterate, hardhanded 
 
 Veterans of Marathon, hearts of oak and iron, 
 
 Slingers and smiters. They bawl'd out and bellow'd : 
 " You dog, you villain ! now the vines are ruin'd, 
 "You're come with Treaties, are you ? " Then they stopt, 
 
 Huddling up handfuls of great slinging stones 
 
 In the lappets of their cloaks, and I ran off, 
 
 And they came driving after me pell mell, 
 
 Roaring and shouting. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ay, why let them roar ! You've brought the Treaties ? 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Ay, three samples of 'em ; this here is a five years' growth, taste it and try. 
 Amphitheos presents three samples of wine in turn to Dikaiopolis, as repre- 
 senting the different periods of peace, for five, ten and thirty years 
 respectively : Dikaiopolis rejects the first two and accepts the last. 
 
 Don't like it ! 
 
 Eh? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Don't like it ; it won't do ; 
 There's an uncommon ugly twang of pitch, 
 A touch of naval armament about it. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 Well, here's a ten years' growth, may suit you better. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No, neither of them. There's a sort of sourness 
 Here in this last, a taste of acid embassies, 
 And vapid allies turning to vinegar. 
 
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 rcov oBoLiropwv diravrcov rfj irokei yap CL^lOV 
 IjvWa/3eiv rbv avBpa rovrov. aXkd jiol /jltjvv- 
 
 aare, 206 
 
 €L rt? olB' oitoi TerpairTai 7779 6 ras (nrovBas 
 
 (ftepcov. 
 eKire(f>evy ', ot^erai <f>pov8os. ol/jloi ra\as rcov 
 
 €T(OV TCOV ijJLWV 2IO 
 
 ovk av eir efifjs ye vcottjtos, ot iya* (j>epcov dv- 
 
 OpaKcov <j>oprlov 
 7}ko\ov6ovv Q>avW(p Tpe'xpav, &Be <j>av\co$ av 6 
 <T7rovBo(f>6po<; ovtos vir ifiov Tore Bmdk6/j,€vo<; 216 
 
mWiWmUMWMMMEMJ 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 But here's a truce of thirty years entire 
 Warranted sound. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Bacchus and the Bacchanals ! 
 This is your sort ! here's nectar and ambrosia ! 
 Here's nothing about providing three days' rations, 
 It says, " Do what you please, Go where you will." 
 I choose it, and adopt it, and embrace it, 
 For sacrifice and for my private drinking. 
 In spite of all the Acharnians, I'm determin'd 
 To remove out of the reach of wars and mischief, 
 And keep the feast of Bacchus in my house. 
 
 AMPHITHEOS. 
 
 And I'll run off to escape from those Acharnians. 
 
 [Exit Amphitheos 
 Enter chorus in search of Dikaiopolis. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 In each nook and by each crook come 
 
 follow up this jackanapes ; 
 Ask about, and search him out, for 
 
 our's the shame if he escapes. 
 If you can, show me the man, do ; 
 
 for I cannot understand 
 Where he went so impudently 
 
 bringing truces through the land. 
 We're astray ; he's stole away ; ah ! 
 
 this it is to carry age ! 
 Never would it, never should it 
 
 so have happened, I engage, 
 In the time when in my prime, and 
 
 caring not about my pace, 
 With a sack upon my back, I 
 
 dared Phayllos to the race. 
 
 (26) 
 
XAAAAAAAAAAAA^ 
 
 i^ecjyvyev ov& av eXacfrpcos av direirXi^aTo. 
 
 vvv c)' i7rei8r) areppov tjStj tov/hov dvTLKvrjfMLOV 
 
 /col 7raXac(p kcucpareihr) to cr/ceA.09 /Sapvverai, 220 
 
 oXyeTdi. Bi(OKT€0$ Se* fir) yap zyydvoi irore 
 
 firjBi irep yepovras ovras i/ccfrvyojv 'A^apveas. 
 
 octtos, w Zev irdrep teal Oeoi, toIctlv i^Qpolaiv 
 
 icrrreicraTO, 225 
 
 olen nrap i/nov ttoXc/jlo^ e^#oSo7ro9 av^ercu tcjv 
 
 €/jlwv ywpiwv ' 
 kovk dv7](T0) irplv av o"%oivo<; avTolcnv avTefiirayco 230 
 of vs, oSvvrjpos, * * * * €7rifC(07ro<;, iva 
 
 fjLrJ7T0T€ TTCLTWGIV €TL TO-? i/ACLS dfJblTeXoV^. 
 
 dXXa Set ^r}T€LV tov avBpa teal fiXeireiv TSaXXrjvaSe 
 
 /cat Bl(o/c€lv yrjv irpb yf}<;, eco9 av evpeOfj irore' 235 
 
 Co? iyco ftdXXoov iicelvov ov/c av ifJbTrXrjixrjv XiOois. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS- 
 
 ev(j>r]ixelT6, evcf)r}/jLeiT€. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 alya 7ra<?. r)Kovaar\ avSpes, dpa 7-379 evefrrj/juas ; 
 ovtos avTos icrTLv bv ^rjTOVfiev. dXXa Sevpo iras 
 €K7roS(ov ' Ovcrcdv yap dvrjp, C09 eoiK, i^ep^erai. 240 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 €V(f)7)/JL€lT€, 6V(f)r)fl€lT€. 
 
 irpoiff e'9 to irpoaOev oXiyov r) Kavr)<j)opo<; • 
 
 * * * * * * * / 
 
 KardOov to tcavovv, co OvyaTep, iv dirap^wixeOa. 
 
 nr 
 
 (27) 
 
Now my thigh is shrunk and dry, and I am stiff about the knees ; 
 So the fellow thinks to tell how he can beat Lakrateides. 
 Vain the brag ; we will not flag, or lose the credit of our town ; 
 Though we're old, I will be bold that we will hunt the rascal down. 
 Zeus's nods, and all the Gods ! he's made a treaty with the foes 
 Whom I feel a growing zeal to hammer with redoubled blows. 
 Let them go, eh ? will I ? no, a rush will pierce them to the heart ; 
 Going right in, sharp and biting, they shall wriggle with the smart. 
 Such a lesson I'll impress on those who come with such designs 
 To do harm upon my farm and cut and trample down the vines. 
 On his track ; and never slack until this rogue we've safely got. 
 Haply he may barely be a stone' s-throw from this very spot. 
 As to throwing, there's no knowing when I shall have had my fill. 
 
 Enter Dikaiopolis, in procession with his wife and daughter, and their female 
 
 attendants and male slaves, in order to perform the simple 
 
 sacrifice to Bacchus* 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Keep ye silence, keep ye silence. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Hush ! ye heard the mystic word 
 
 repressing every sound of ill. 
 
 He was speaking, whom we're seeking ; 
 
 and it seems some holy rite 
 
 Is enacting ; so retracting 
 
 let us not come into sight. 
 
 \_The chorus retire* 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Keep ye silence, keep ye silence. 
 A little onward basket bearer. 
 
 Now put down the basket, girl, and so let us begin it. 
 
 Mmmmmm 
 
 (28) 
 
011il|silDiiIB3l^lEjlMll!3 
 
 errATHP. 
 MHTEP, dvdBos Bevpo rrjv irvrjpvaiv, 
 iv €tvo<; /ca,Ta%€(o TOvXarrjpos tovtovL 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 feed firjv tca\6v y ear • a> Atovva-e Beairora, 
 KeyapiGpivw^ (tol rrjvBe rrjv Tro^irr\v ijxe 
 7T€fiyjravra teal dvcravra fiera ra>v ol/cercov 
 dyayelv rv^rjpcj^ ra /car dypov? Aiovv&ia, 
 (TTpaTias airaXkayQkvTa • ras (nrovha? Be poi 
 /caXobs gweveytcelv ras rpia/covTovTiBa?. 
 ay, a) Ovyarep, 07n»9 to /cavovv KaXr) /caXew? 
 otcret?, flXeTrovcra dv/jL/3po<f)dyov. &>? fia/cdpios 
 
 OCTTIS a 07TVCT61, 
 
 * * * 
 
 * 
 
 irpofiaive, kolv tco^Xo) (jyvXarreaOaL o~(f>6Bpa 
 fir) tls \aOa)v (tov irepcrpdyrj ra xpvaia. 
 
 245 
 
 250 
 
 255 
 
 iyeb S' dtcoXovOwv dao^xai to (fyaWitcov 
 
 260 
 
 <Pa\r}<;, eralpe ^aicylov, 
 gvy/ccofjue, vvKT0irepiiT\dvr\- 
 re, poi^e, iratBepaardy 
 €KT(p a €T6L 7rpoaei7rov es 
 rbv Btjjjlov iXOcov dcfAevos, 
 crirovBas Troirjad/jLevo^ ifiav- 
 to5, Trpay/Jbdrcov re ical fia%cov 
 
 irpofia. 
 
 265 
 
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 Af* 
 
 DAUGHTER. 
 
 Then mother, let me have the ladle here to take 
 Some porridge from the pot to put upon the cake. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Lord Bacchus ! it is well that now from service free, 
 
 I with my family should celebrate to thee 
 
 The service in the fields. Oh, prosper to our use 
 
 For me, and all of mine, these thirty years of truce ! 
 
 Fair daughter, fairly bear the basket, and be sure 
 
 That those who see may say, " She's steady and demure," 
 
 And when you get among the crowd, pray have a care 
 
 That nobody shall filch the ornaments you wear. 
 
 Now I will sing the hymn ; 
 
 ****** 
 
 Proceed. 
 
 The Dionysiac Hymn. 
 
 Phales, lover of delight, 
 Phales, roamer of the night, 
 Haunting Bacchus as his friend, 
 At these weary six years' end, 
 Gladly do I chant to thee. 
 Gladly I my borough greet ; 
 I have had the hap to treat ; 
 Wars no more shall trouble us, 
 
teal Aafjud^cov airaXka^6i<;. 270 
 
 7roXXc3 <ydp eV#' rjhiov, &> <&aXr}$ <&aXr}<;, 
 
 fcXkirrovcrav evpovO^ &pLfcr)v vX7jcf)6pov, 
 
 tt]v ^rpvfJboBdopov %parrav etc rov <&eXXeco 
 
 fiearjv Xafiovr , apavra, /cara- 
 
 /3a\6vra /caTaytyapTicrcu. 275 
 
 QaXfj? <&aXf}<;, 
 
 iav fJLeO* rjjJL&v $jvfi7Tir)<;, i/c KpaiirdXr)? 
 
 6CD06V elprjwqs po<f>rjcr€i$ rpvftXtov • 
 
 r) 8* a<nri<z iv rd> fyetydXco fcpe/nrjcrerai. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 OVTO<$ CLVTOS €(TTIV, OVTO?. 280 
 
 ftdXXe ftdXXe ftdXXe ftdXXe, 
 irate 7ra? rov fxiapov. 
 ov /5a\e??, ov /SaXet? ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 'Hpa/cXet?, tovtI ti iari ; ri)v ^vrpav crvvTplyjreTe. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ere fiev ovv KaraXevcrofjuev, aj fuapd K€(j>aXrj. 285 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 dvrl iroias alrias, &yapvku>v yepalraroc ; 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 tovt ipa)Ta<; ; dvalo~^yvTO<; el /eal ftBeXvpos, 
 
 0) TrpoBora ttjs irarpihos, octis r/ficov fjuovos 290 
 
 <T7T€i(rd/JL€vos elra hvvaaai 7rpo? €fi diro^XeireLv. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 dvrl S' cbv i<T7r€L<rd/JLr]v aKovaar , dXX aKOvaare. 
 
Politics, nor Lamachos. 
 
 All is past and I am free. 
 Drink with us, and in the morning 
 
 Draughts of Peace shall cool your tongue ; 
 Then my buckler, service scorning, 
 
 In the chimney shall be hung. 
 CHORUS. 
 
 'Tis the very rogue at last ! 
 
 At him; hit him ; knock him down ; 
 All together, straight and fast, 
 (Bush forward to pelt Dikaiopolis with stones.) 
 Volley him from shin to crown. 
 
 [Exeunt all but Dikaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Hercules ! but what is this ? 
 
 You will crack the holy jar. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 You at least we shall not miss, 
 
 dirty rascal as you are. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Wherefore ! tell me what's the matter, 
 
 Ancients of Acharnai borough ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Shameless fellow, dare you chatter ? 
 
 scoundrel utter, rank and thorough, 
 When you've made a truce, you traitor, 
 
 and your guilt is very plain, 
 Can you dare to stand and prate, or 
 
 look me in the face again ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Hear me : for you do not know 
 
 whv I made that truce alone, sir. 
 
 I I 1 | V M I I I I III 
 
 (32) 
 

 X0P02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 aov y a/covcr(DfjL€v ; diroXel • Kara ae ^coaofiev tois 
 XiOois. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 /MjBa/jbcos, irplv av y aKovarjr • dXX' dvda%€a6\ 
 oiyaOoi. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ovk dvaa^rjaofiac • fiij^e Xeye /jloc av Xoyov * 
 
 a>9 fie/jLtarjKa ae K\i(ovo<; krt /xaXXov, bv 
 
 KararefMO) rolaiv lirirevai Karrvfiara. 
 
 aov $ iyo) Xoyov? Xeyovros ovk afcovcro/jbcu ficucpovs, 
 
 bans iaireiaw AaKCoaiv, dXXd nfjuayprjaofxai. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 coyaOoi, rovs fiev AaKcovas ckitoBodv idaare, 
 tS)v £' ifJLtov ctttovScov aKovaaT , el KaXws eairei- 
 adfirjv. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNE^N. 
 
 7TW9 Be 7' av KaXtos Xeyots av, elirep ea7relaco y airat; 
 olauv ovre /3&)yLto? ovre irians ovd } op/cos fxevet ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 oZS' eyco teal rov<; AaKwvas, oh ayav eyKelfieOa, 
 ou% dirdvrfov ovras rjfilv alrlovs rwv 7rpayfxdrcov. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ov% dirdvrcdv, a> iravovpye ; ravra &rj toX/jlcls Xeyeuv 
 i/JLcfravws rjhr] irpbs rjfxds ; elr eyco aov cpeiaofiai, ; 
 
 295 
 
 30a 
 
 305 
 
 310 
 
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 CHORUS. 
 
 Hear you ? Hang you ! never ! Go, we will bury you with stones, sir. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Wait until you understand, worthy fellows, I beseech. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 No, I will not hold my hand ; 
 
 do not think to make a speech, 
 For I hate you altogether 
 
 more than I do Kleon, whose 
 Hide I mean to turn to leather 
 
 which shall find the Knights in shoes. 
 Do not think to make excuses ; 
 
 it were only waste of breath. 
 With the Spartans you have truces, 
 
 therefore you shall die the death. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Put the Spartans out of question ; take it in its proper light ; 
 Only hear a slight suggestion ; you will say that I was right. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 You were right indeed ! when you 
 
 ventured upon entertaining 
 
 Commerce with a people who 
 
 have no faith nor truth remaining. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Spartans — yes, no doubt — are double- 
 minded fellows ; all the same, 
 
 Though we hate them, for our trouble 
 
 they are not alone to blame. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Not alone to blame ? and dare you 
 
 say so much before my face 
 
 And suppose that I will spare you, 
 
 speaking out your own disgrace ? 
 
 
 
 
 
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 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 ov% a7ravT(Dv ov% airavTonv * aXX' iyoo Xeywv 6BI 
 7ro\V av a7ro(f>7]vaifjL i/celvov? e<70' a fcaBL/covfiivov?. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 tovto Tov7ro$ Becvbv rjBrj koi rapafyicapBiov, 315 
 
 el (TV to\/j,i]<t€1<; irrrep twv iroXefiicov rjfjulv Xeyetv. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 tcav ye fir) Xi^co Bl/caia, fir/Be to3 irXrjOeL Bokco, 
 virep iin^rjvov OeXrjcra) tt)v KefyaXrjv zywv Xiyeiv. 
 
 X0P02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 elire fioi, tL faiBofiecrOa rcov XlOcov, w Brjfiorai, 
 
 fur) ov /cara^aiveiv rov avBpa tovtov is <f>oivi/€tBa ; 320 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS- 
 
 olos av fieXa? Tt? v/jllv Ov/jLaXcoyjr eTre^eaev. 
 
 ovk afcovaead' ovk aKovaead^ ireov, oy^apvrjiBat ; 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ovk aKOvaofieaOa Brjra. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI5. 
 
 Beiva rapa weicrofuu. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 igoXOLJJLTJV, TJV OLKOVa-Q). 
 
 AIKAIOTIOAI2. 
 
 /jL7)Ba/Ji(o<;, oiyapvLKoi 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 w? Te6vr)%(ov ccrOi vvvl. 
 
 mmmmmmmm 
 
 (35) 
 
V— ■ — — —— m— — a— — iiimiiiii i wrramr i n ii iww mi—m— ^ — ^— — — ^— m 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Not to blame for all I say. 
 
 I could show from the beginning 
 Certain matters in which they 
 
 were more sinned against than sinning. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 This is truly past endurance ! 
 
 and our temper overflows 
 When we see such cool assurance ; 
 
 you are pleading for our foes. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I will plead my cause and get 
 
 verdict in my favor on it ; 
 Let a chopping-block be set ; 
 
 I will stake my head upon it. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Fellow burghers, tell me why 
 
 we should longer spare the varlet ? 
 We have stones ; so let them fly ; 
 
 dress the fellow up in scarlet. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What a sudden flame and smother 
 
 from a black and sleeping brand ! 
 Wont you listen to a brother, 
 
 worthy sons of charcoal -land ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Cease so vain a hope to cherish. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. v -n ,1 • . 
 
 You will greatly injure us. 
 CHORUS. 
 
 If I listen may I perish. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Neighbors, do not answer thus. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Know that you are going to die ? 
 
AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 Brj^ofi ap v/Acis eyco. 325 
 
 dvTaTro/erevco yap vfuv tcov <f)i\cov tov$ (f>c\rdrov<; • 
 a>? e%« 7* vfi&v 6/jLi]pov$) ov<; a7ro(T<f>a% co \a/3a>v. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEnN. 
 
 elire fioc, tl tovt cnreiXel tovttos, avBpes Brjfiofai, 
 
 rots '' ' KyapviKolcriv r)pXv ; ficov e%ei tov iratBlov 
 
 tojv 7rapovT(ov evBov eipfjas ; r) VI rS dpacrvverai ; 330 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 /3dWer, el j3ov\eo~6\ iyo> yap tovtovI Bia<f>6ep(o. 
 etaofiai B* v/jlcov rd^ oarcs dvOpdfccov re /erjBerai. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 a)? d7ro)\6fi€a0\ 6 \dp/co<; Srj/jLOTrjs oS' ear £/j,6s. 
 dXXa fir} Bpaays b fieWec? « firjBa/JLws, a> fJirjBafJLw^. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAH. 
 
 a)? diTOKrevw • KeKpayff * iya) yap ov/c dK,ovo~o\xai. 335 
 
 XOP05 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 diroXels ap* ofirjXiKa rovBe (f>i\avdpafcea ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ovB" ipbov XeyovTO? vfjuets dpTiax; rjKovaare. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEnN. 
 
 aKka vvvl \ey\ el rot Botcec croi, to Aafce- 
 
 Baifioviov avd^ otw t&> rpoirw crovo-rl (f)l\ov ' 
 
 o)9 roBe to XapiciBiov ov irpoBcaaw ttotL 340 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 rovs \160vs vvv fJLoc yapua^e irpwrov e^epderare, 
 
 ifffrffffffffff fffffyiffyfM 
 
 (37) 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Then will I strike through and through you. 
 I will slaughter in reply 
 
 those whom you hold dearest to you — 
 Whom I have as hostages. [Exit Dikaiopolis. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 What's the meaning of the man's 
 Threatening ? I cannot guess ; 
 Can you say, Acharnians ? 
 Has he any son or daughter 
 
 of this company in hold 
 Whom he says that he will slaughter ? 
 
 What can make the man so bold ? 
 Dikaiopolis re-enters with a charcoal basket, which he threatens to stab. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Now then, if you like it, throw — I will riddle this with holes 
 Till it's dead ; and I shall know who has any care for coals ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 'Tis our brother burgess ! yes ! we are ruined ! hear us ask it, 
 Wring us not with this distress ; do not — do not hurt the basket. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 It must go ; I care not whether you may wring your hands and cry. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 We have lived and loved together, Charcoal ; no, it must not die. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 When I begged a word but now, you stiffly, utterly declined. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Aye, but now we will allow you ; say just what you have a mind. 
 If indeed you are intent on your Spartan friendship, say it. 
 As for that sweet innocent ; no, I never will betray it. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Throw away the stones. 
 
 (mmrfflEimmfoTfiiTffl 
 
 (38) 
 
X0P02 AXAPNEHN. 
 ovtolI (joi %a/jLa£, /cal crv kclttjOov irdXiv to £ i<f>o$, 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 aXX* 07tw? fir) *v T049 Tpificocnv ey/cd6r]vTal irov XIBol. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 eKaeaeiarau ^afid^. oby^ 6pa$ cecofievov ; 
 
 dXXa jurj fioi irpotyacriv, dXXa /cardOov to /3e\o9. 345 
 
 a)? 6Be ye cretcr-vo? dfia Trj a-Tpo<f>fj ylyveTai. 
 
 MKAionoAi2. 
 efieXXeT dp diravTes dvacreleiv fiotfv, 
 oXiyov t direOavov dvdpa/ces Tlapvr)o~Loi, 
 /cal TavTa Bed ttjv droiriav twv BrjfjLOTcSv. 
 virb tou Beov? Be Tr)? fJLapiXrj^ fxou avyyr]V 350 
 
 6 Xdp/co$ eveTi\r)Gev ioanrep arjirla. 
 Beivbv yap ovtox; o/jLcfra/ctav irefyv/cevai 
 tov dvfjibv dvBpcov cbaTe fidXXeiv /cal ftodv 
 edeXetv t d/covaai p,t)Bev icrov term <f>epov, 
 e/iov OeXovTos virep eiri^rjvov Xeyeiv 355 
 
 virep Aa/ce8ai/jLovicov diravO^ 6a dv Xeyco ■ 
 /catTOt, <f>cXo3 ye ttjv ifjurjv -^jrv^rjv iyco. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 rl ovv ov Xeyeis iirl^rjvov egevey/cojv 6vpa£ 
 
 6 tl itot\ w axeTXoe, to fieya tovt e^et? ; 360 
 
 irdvv yap e/ieye irodos 6 tl typovels e%et,. 
 
 aXX' yirep ai>TO$ ttjv BI/ctjv 8ia)pi<ra>, 
 
 dels Bevpo Toxnri^rjvov ey%eipei Xeyeiv. 3 6 5 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 IBov Oeao-ai, to fiev eiri^rjvov toBL, , 
 
 (39) 
 
CHORUS. 
 
 'Tis done ; 
 Put you too the sword away. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Are you sure that you have none ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Let me shake my apron : nay, 
 
 do not cheat me with a smile ; 
 Fairly put aside the steel 
 
 for I shook my mantle while 
 I was turning on my heel. 
 
 [Lays aside the basket and sword. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 So, you at last could cease your clamor ! what a fate 
 Hung over Charcoal when you were so obstinate ! 
 See, like a cuttle-fish retreating in its fear, 
 The basket clouds me in a coal-dust atmosphere. 
 'Tis sad to see a man indulge a temper like 
 Sour grapes, and always want to clamor and to strike 
 Before he hears the other side. But I was willing 
 To lay my head upon a chopping-block for killing, 
 While showing how the Spartan trouble had begun ; 
 And yet I love my life as well as anyone. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Why then, unpack your precious burden for display : 
 For I should like to hear what you have got to say — 
 Agreed that at your proper peril you must win, 
 So let the chopping-block be brought and then begin. 
 
 dikaiopolis. [Brings out a chopping-block.) 
 So be it. Here's the block ; and I that am to plead, 
 
o 8* avrjp 6 Xe^cov ovrocrl tvvvovtogL 
 
 dfiekei fxa rbv At" ov/c evacnriBd><TOiiai, 
 
 Xetjoo 8* virep AatceBcufiovlcov a fioi Bo/cel. 
 
 KaiToi BkBoitca iroXXd • tovs re yap rpoirov? 370 
 
 tovs t&v dypoi/ccov olBa ^aipovra^ <r<f>6Bpa 
 
 idv Tt9 avrov? evXoyfj kcl\ rrjv ttoXlv 
 
 dvrjp dXa^odv fcal 81/caia /caBt/ca • 
 
 KavTCLvQa XavOdvova dTrefjiTroXcjfxevoL ■ 
 
 rdSv t av yepovrcov olBa rds ^f^a? otl 375 
 
 ouBev fiXeirovo-Lv aXXo irXrjv tyritfxp Ba/celv, 
 
 avros t efiavrbv vtto KXecovos airaOov 
 
 eTTio-rafjiaL Bta ttjv irkpvai K(Ofi(pBiav. 
 
 €L<re\/cv<ra<; yap fi et? to fSovXevrrjpiov 
 
 BieftaXXe ical -tyevBr) KaTeyXdorrt^i fiov 380 
 
 K(iKVKXofS6p€L KanrXvvev, war oXlyov irdvv 
 
 d7T(oX6/j,T)v fioXwoirpayfiovovfJuevo^. 
 
 vvv ovv fie TTpwrov irplv Xeyeiv idcrare 
 
 ivcTtcevdcraaOai fi olov ddXKorarov. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 tL ravra crrpe^et Teyyd^eis re teal 7ro/)t£et? rpifid? ; 385 
 Xafie B y ifiov y eveica irap 'lepcovv/AOV 
 
 aKoroBaavTrvKvorpi^d tiv "AtSos kvvtjv ■ 390 
 
 elr i^dvoiye ^yavds ra<; ^lavcfrov, 
 ft>9 a/crjyfnv dycov ovto? ovk elarBe^erai. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 topa *<tt\v dpa fioi tcaprepdv ^v-^rjv XafleiVt 
 Kai fioi j3aBt(rre iarlv a>? ^vpLirlB^v. 
 iral iral. 
 
 EbW^^MlSMEMiMMM 
 
 (40 
 
Am but a nobody. What matter ? and indeed 
 I throw my shield away. I'll speak just what I think 
 About the Spartans ; Yet I feel disposed to shrink. 
 I know so well the men who come in from their farms ; 
 How easily a cunning lying coxcomb charms 
 Their ears by telling them that they are "honest," "bold," 
 " Shrew'd fellows," too. 'Tis so the dupes are sold. 
 I know the humors of your ancients, too. They like 
 Nothing so much as giving judgments that will strike. 
 I know how much, myself, I suifered from the clutch 
 Of Kleon, whom last year my Play was thought to touch. 
 He dragged me in with slanders, lied me through the Court ; 
 He roared, he blustered, licked and rinsed me out ; in short 
 The wonder is that any of my being lingers 
 After such busy mauling by his dirty fingers. 
 And so, before beginning, let me change my dress, 
 That I may move some pity for my squalidness. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Why do you try these tricks ? But get, for aught I care, 
 Jerome's invisible pitch-darkness cap of hair, 
 Get Sisyphos's shifts ; but all in vain you try, 
 It will not be allowed to put this trial by. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Now for a daring stroke ; for I am ill at ease ! 
 So I will make a call upon Euripides. 
 Ho, slave. 
 
 [Calls at the door of Euripides] house. 
 
 (42) 
 
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 KH*I50*nN. 
 Tt9 0VT09 ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 evBov €(tt JLvpiitiSijS! ! 395 
 
 KH$UO*nN. 
 
 ovk evBov evBov eo-rtV, el yvco/jirjv e%€£9. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAl2. 
 7TW9 eVOOV, €LT OVK €VOOV / 
 
 KH<f>I20#flN. 
 
 opdcos, a) yepov, 
 1/01)9 >iey If ft> gvWeycov eirvWia 
 ovk evBov, avros B* evBov dva^dB^v iroiel 
 TpaycpBlav. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ft) t peer ixolk dpi ^LvpiirlBi), 40a 
 
 66* o BovXos ovtcoctI cro<j><o$ vTroKpiverai, 
 eKKaXecrov avrov. 
 
 KH*I50*nN. 
 
 dXX? dBvvarov* 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 dXX? o/ift)9. 
 ou yap av direkOoL/Xy dXXa, ko-^tco ttjv Ovpav* 
 
 JZvpiTTlBr), YiVpLTTlBLOV, 
 
 viraKovcrov, eXirep iroairo'T dvOpcorrrcov rtvi* 405 
 
 AiKcuowoXts Kakel ere XoXXelBrjs, iy<b. 
 
 ETPIIIIAHS. 
 
 "A\V ov cr^oXij, 
 
 (43) 
 
Enter Euripides' slave, 
 
 KEPHISOPHON. 
 
 Who's there ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pray is Euripides within ? 
 
 KEPHISOPHON. 
 
 Within and not within, if you can take that in. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Within and not within, how's that ? 
 
 KEPHISOPHON. 
 
 'Tis true, old man, 
 
 His wits are not within, but gathering where they can 
 
 Word delicacies ; but his body is upstairs 
 
 Writing a tragedy. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Thrice blest in his affairs, 
 Who has a slave can answer with such subtle wit. 
 But call him out. 
 
 KEPHISOPHON. 
 I cannot. 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I insist upon it. 
 {Slave disappears, when the scene opens disclosing interior of 
 Euripides' house.) 
 I will not go away. Nay, I'll beat down the door. 
 "Euripides," my dearest " Rippy " — I implore, 
 If ever prayer from man did favorably reach you. 
 I, Dikaiopolis of Cholleidai, beseech you. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 I have no leisure. 
 
 KAAAAAAAAAAA/d 
 
 (44) 
 
mmmmmmmmmm. 
 
 a\V ifCfcv/cXij0T]T. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 EYPiniAHS. 
 
 dX)C dBvvarov. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIX 
 ETPiniAHS. 
 
 a\V €KKVK\rj(TOfiaL ■ fcarafialveiv S' ou <r%oXij, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 ^vpiTrihrj, 
 
 ETPiniAH5. 
 
 Tt \i\atcas ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 dvaffdBrjv Troiels, 410 
 efoi> KaraftdSrjv ; ovk ero? ftcoXovs 7roieis. 
 drdp tl rd pdict etc rpaytpSlas e^ets, 
 icrOrjr ikeeivrjv ; ovk ero? 7rTft)^ou? ttolcU. 
 a\\' dvriftoXo) 7TjOO? tcoi> yovdrcov &, ^vpnrlBr], 
 $0? /tot paKibv ti tov TraXacov SpdfiaTOS. 415 
 
 Se? yap yu-e Xef at to5 X°P < ? PV <TI/V pcLKpdv ' 
 avrrj Be Odvarov, rjv fca/c(os \e£&>, cfrepec. 
 
 ETPiniAH5. 
 
 Ta 7ro?a Tpv%7) ; yu-w*/ eV ol? OtVeu? oSl 
 o Svo-ttot/jlos yepcuhs yyoyvl^ero ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIX 
 
 cu# Olveco? tjv, dXX* er ddXicorepov. 
 
 ETPiniAH2. 
 Ta TOU TV(f>X0V <$>01VIK0$ ; 
 
 420 
 
 «««««<«! 
 
 (45) 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pray you ; let them wheel you out. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Impossible. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Nay, nay. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Then twirl the turnabout. 
 I am too busy to descend. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Euripides. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 What sayest thou ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Aloft you make your tragedies. 
 When on the earth below you might have done the same. 
 No wonder that your characters are often lame ; 
 But why have you collected all those ragged clothes ? 
 As "pity properties" for beggars I suppose? 
 But, dear Euripides, give me to my relief 
 From some old tragedy, a proper rag for grief. 
 For I before the Chorus have to plead my tale, 
 And nothing short of death awaits me if I fail. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 What sort of rags will suit you ? those I have in store 
 Which Oineus in his age and evil fortune wore ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Not those of Oineus ; no. There were some to my mind 
 more wretched still. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 What, those of Phoinix that was blind ? 
 
AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ov Qoivacos, ov, 
 a\\' erepo? rjv Qoivikos a6\id)Tepo$. 
 
 ETPiniAHS. 
 
 7rota? 7TO0' avrjp XafclBas alrelrat ireTrXcov ; 
 a\V tj <&i\oKTr)Tov Ta tov tttco^ov Xeyets ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ovk, aXXa tovtov 7to\v 7ro\v 7rTCD%io-Tepov. 
 
 EYPiniAHS- 
 
 a\X' tj ra Bvo-TTivrj OeXei? ireirkoiy^aTa 
 a BeWe pO(f>6vT7)$ el^ 6 ^g>\o? ovToai; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIZ 
 
 ov HeWepO(f>6vTr)$ • aWa icaiceZvos fxev rjv 
 ^ft)\o?, 7rpo(raiT(oVy cttco/jlvXos, Beivbs \eyeiv. 
 
 EYPiniAH5. 
 olBi* avBpa, M.vo~bv TrjXetyov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAH. 
 
 val Tij\€(j>ov • 
 tovtov $09 avTif3o\oo o-e jjloi tcl cnrdpyava. 
 
 EYPiniAH3. 
 w iral, So? avTG> Tr)\4<f)OV paicwfiaTa. 
 KeiTai 6° avooOev tcov Sv60~t€lcjv paiccov, 
 fi€Ta%v tcov 'Ii>oO?. IBov tclvtI Xa/3e. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 ft) Zev BioiTTa teal KaToirTa iravTayfi, 
 
 425 
 
 430 
 
 435 
 
 iifliiniin siiiiiDii^ 0i 
 
 (47) 
 

 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Not Phoinix ; no. A much more wretched man than he. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 What does the man require ? What tatters can they be ? 
 Eh ! was it Philoktetes as a beggar seen ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 More beggarly by far the things were that I mean. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 You mean perhaps the garment which the man had on 
 Who acted in the part of lame Bellerophon ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No, not Bellerophon. Though he indeed was lame, 
 
 And begged and mouthed and chattered without stint or shame. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 I know the man, the Mysian Telephos ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS 
 
 Ah, yes, 
 Give me the things that stood for Telephos's dress. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Slave, let him have the shreds ; they lie between the bags 
 Of Ino and Thyestes. Here, man, take the rags. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Oh, Jupiter, whose eye can look through everywhere, 
 
 rnrrfrrrrriTrrrtw 
 
 (48) 
 
ivo-fcevdcraadal p! olov ddXcajTaTov. 
 
 HvptircBrji ' Treihrpirep eyaplaw ra&L, 
 
 Koacelvd fJLOi So? Ta/coXovOa tcov pa/ccov, 
 
 to ttlXlBcov irepl rrjv tcetyaXrjv to M.vo~cov. 
 
 Bel yap fie Bo^ai ittco^ov elvai Trf/nepov, 440 
 
 elvai fiev toairep elfil, fyaivevQai Be purj • 
 
 tovs fJLev OeaTas elBevai pu o? eifi eyco, 
 
 roi)? B* av %opevTas rfXiBLovs irapecrTavai, 
 
 07tg>? av avTOV<; prjfAaTLOLS o-KC/jLaXlaco. 
 
 EYPiniAHS. 
 
 Scoo-Q) ' TTVKvfj yap \67TTa firj^ava <j>pevL 445 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 evBaipLovolrjs, TrjXecfrq) B" aya) <j>pov<b. 
 ev y • olov TjBrj prjfiaTtoov epnrlp,irXapiai\ 
 cuTap Beopual ye ittw^ikov fta/cTrjplov. 
 
 ETPiniAHS. 
 tovtI \a/3(ov aireXde Xaivwv o~Tad/ncov, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 a) Blip?, opas yap co? aTrcodov/iai Bojuov, 450 
 
 7roXXu)v Beopuevo^ atcevapitov ' vvv Brj yevov 
 yXla^po^ TrpoaaiT&v Xc7rapcov t\ !Lvpc7riBr}, 
 S09 pot airvpiBiov Bia/cefcavpbevov Xv%y<p. 
 
 EYPiniAH2. 
 tl 8 co T&Xas ere tovB* e^ei TrXeicovs )(peo$ ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAlS. 
 
 'XP&os fiev ovBev, fiovXofiat, B* oficos Xafielv, 455 
 
Most pitiable be the raiment that I bear. 
 Euripides, since you have kindly spared me these, 
 Pray let me be complete ; so give me, if you please, 
 The Mysian felt upon my head ; " for I to-day 
 A very beggar's part must undertake to play ; 
 To be just what I am, but other seem to be," 
 So that the audience may perfectly know me, 
 While I shall circumvent with subtle-worded art 
 The muddled wits of those who play the chorus' part. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Take it, you have a head nice matters to discuss. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 " God speed you and my heart's desire to Telephos." 
 Bravo ! I feel the phrases coming on me thick. 
 But ah ! to fit me out, I want a beggar's stick. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Then take this one and quit the "stone compacted port." 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 " Soul, seest thou how I am driven from the court" 
 Half furnished for my needs ? Now should I urge my pleas ; 
 Stick close and be exacting. So, Euripides, 
 Give me a basket which a candle has burnt through. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 How can the wicker be of any use to you ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 'Tis not of any use ; but yet I choose to ask it. 
 
 (50) 
 

 
 
 , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ETPiniAHS. 
 
 \v7rr)pb<; 1<t6* cbv Kairo^mpTjcrov 86/acqv. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 evBatfiovoirjs, cocnrep rj /jLtjrrjp ttotL 
 ETPiniAH5. 
 
 aireXde vvv not. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 fidXXd /not Bbs €v \xovov 
 
 KOTvXlaiClOV TO ^6tX05 CLTTOKeKpOVfieVOV. 
 
 EYPiniAH5. 
 <f>0€tpov Xaficov to& • 1<t6l S' o^Xrjpb^ wv 86/jlol$. 460 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 ovirco fjia AC olcrO' oV avrb<; ipyd^ei tca/cd. 
 dXX\ w yXvKvrar TLvpi7ri$7}, rovrl jjlovov, 
 S09 fiot, xyrpLhtov criroyylto fte/3v<TfJL&vov. 
 
 EYPiniAHS. 
 
 av0p(O7r\ d(f>aiprj(T€L fie rr)v rpaywBlav, 
 aireXOe ravrrjvl Xaftoov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 airep'XOfJLai. 465 
 
 rcalroc Ti Bpdcrco ; Bel yap evos, ov fir) tv%cov 
 diroXwX^. clkovctov, ft) yXvKvrar ^vpuiriBr) • 
 tovtI Xaftwv aTreifJLi kov irpoo-ecfi en • 
 eh to o-TTvpiBiov iayya fioc <f>vXXeca S09. 
 
 EYPiniAHS. 
 
 a7roXeL<; \i . IBov aoi, <f>povBd fiot rd Bpafiara. 470 
 
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 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Go, you are troublesome : content you with the basket. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Bless you, as your good mother blessed was before* 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Do go away. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I only ask a trifle more, 
 A little pitcher — broken at the lip were best. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Then take it and be hanged, and know yourself a pest. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And you, ycu do not know the wrong that you are doing. 
 But once again, my sweetest, listen to my suing ; 
 It is a sponge I want, and little basin. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Scamp, 
 He will have all my drama. Take it and decamp. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Aye, aye, sir, I am going ; but what ? there is but one, 
 But one thing more, and failing that I am undone. 
 Dear, dear Euripides, supply the little lack, 
 And I will go away ; I will, and not come back : 
 Some greens to put into my basket, just a few in. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 Take them : my tragedy is gone. You'll be my ruin. 
 
KAAAAAAAAAAAA^ 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 aXX ov/cer , aXX aireifii. Kai yap eifi ayav 
 o^Xrjf 09, ov Bo/ccov fie tcocpdvovs arvyelv. 
 oifioi /ca/coBaifKov, a>9 a7r6Xa)X\ eireXa66fir)v 
 ev tpirep i(TTL irdvra fioc to, 7rpdy/JLara. 
 JLvpnrihLov o) yXvKvrarov teal (f>l\raTov, 
 kclkktt a7ro\olfir}v, el ri a alrr]craifJL > en, 
 rrrXrjv ev jjlovov, rovrl jjlovov tovtl jjlovov, 
 <rfcdv&ucd fjuoi So?, fjbrjrpodev BeSeyfievos. 
 
 ETPiniAHS. 
 
 dvrjp v^pl^et • icXele 7rrj/crd Bcofidrcov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 &i Ovfi) dvev <ricdvhuco<; ifiiropevrea. 
 ap* olaB* ocrov rbv dywv dycovcel rd%a, 
 fieXXcov virep AafceSaifAovlwv dvBpcov Xeyeiv ; 
 irpoftaive vvv, &) Ovfxe • ypa/nfjurj 8* avrrjL 
 €<rT7)feas ; ovtc el Karaincbv JLvpnrLBriv ; 
 iirrjvecr • dye vvv, &> rdXaiva tcapBla, 
 aireXO' i/celae, Kara rrjv K^aXrjv eicel 
 Trapdo^^es, elirovcr arr av avrfj aol Bokjj. 
 roX/nrjaov, Wi, ^coprjerov • ayajiav tcapBlas. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ri Bpdaei,? ; ri <f>r)<rei,s ; dXX* tadi vvv 
 dvalvyyvTO*; oi)v (riBrjpovs K dvrjp, 
 Sens 7rapao"^d)v rfj iroXei rbv av^eva 
 diraai fieXXeis eU Xeyeiv ravavrla. 
 dvrjp ov rpefiei to irpayyH . eld vvv, 
 eirethrjiTep avrbs alpel, Xeye. 
 
 475 
 
 480 
 
 485 
 
 490 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No more : I'm going — " I am too importunate ; 
 
 Too heedless of the ire of men in high estate." 
 
 But ah ! my evil stars ! I had forgotten quite 
 
 One thing the lack of which will ruin me outright. 
 
 This one, one only thing ; just this one if you please, 
 
 My very, very darling, my Euripides, 
 
 A pestilence upon me if I ask another, 
 
 Give me some chervil — you can get it from your mother. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 The man insults me : bolt the doors. 
 
 [The scene closes on Euripides and slave. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 My heart, 
 Alas ! without the chervil we must then depart : 
 Know you the work we have to do ? and what a theme on ? 
 No less than pleading for the men of Lakedaimon. 
 Now forward, oh my soul ! This is the barrier. 
 Eh ? dost thou hesitate ? art thou afraid to stir, 
 Having imbibed Euripides ? I cannot blame 
 Your little confidence in him. But come, for shame, 
 Pluck up your spirit : proffer there your head ; 
 And what you deem is right, let it be boldly said. 
 Now forward for the cause and bravely do your part. 
 Here's your returning confidence. Well done, my heart ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Speak, or are ye dumb, thou rogue in grain, 
 
 Iron brain ! Heart of stone ! 
 
 Villain, are ye come, venturing your head alone, 
 
 Singly to support a treason of your own ? 
 
 He's resolved, confident, 
 
 Firm in his intent, ready to the day. 
 
 Well, my man ! since that's your plan, 
 
 Speak away ! 
 
 MMmEMMm 
 
 (54) 
 
AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 fjur) fioL <j>6ov7]ar)r\ avBpes ol Oednfievoi, 
 
 el 7TTft)^09 CJV €7T€LT 6V 'AdrjvaLOLS \4j6LV 
 
 fiiXXo) 7T€pl Tt}? 7ro\60)9, rpvywBlav 7roi(ov. 
 to yap Biicaiov olBe ical rpvywBia. 
 eya) Be Xeljco Beeves, fiev, Blicaia Be. 
 ov yap fie vvv ye Biaftakel KXecov ore 
 £ev(Dv nrapovrcov rrjv ttoXcv fca/ca)<; Xey<o. 
 avrol yap eafiev ovirl Arjvaloy r ayebv, 
 fcoviro) %&vol irapeuriv • ovre yap <f>6poc 
 rjfCOVCTlV OVT €K twv nro\ecov ol ^Vflfia^OC ' 
 a\V ecr/jbev avrol vvv ye irepieirria fievoc • 
 rov? yap /jueroLfcovs ayypa rcov aarSyv \eyco. 
 €<ya) Be fuo-G) fiev Aa/ceBai/jbovlovs a(f)6Bpa, 
 fcavrols 6 Uoo~ecB(ov, ovirl Tacvapa) deos, 
 arei<Ta$ diracnv ififtaXoi ras ol/cias • 
 tca/JLol yap eo-rtv dfiirekia KeKOfifJbeva. 
 ardp) <f)l\oc yap ol irapovres iv \6yw, 
 tL ravra tou? Ad/ccovas alricofieda ; 
 rjjiSiv ydp avBpes, ovyl rrjv itoXlv Xeyot, 
 /jLe/ivrjo-de rovd\ otl ov^l rrjv irokiv \eyco, 
 aSX* dvBpdpia fio^Sr^pd^ irapaKeKOfifieva, 
 aTifia teal irapda-rjfia ical irapdgeva, 
 €O-VK0(f)dvTei M.eyapecov ra y\avio~Kia * 
 /eel' irov aifevov iBocev rj \ayu>Biov 
 rj ^otpiBiOV rj atcopoBov rj j(6vBpov^ akas, 
 ravr rjv Meyapi/ca Kaireirpar avOrjfiepov. 
 
 500 
 
 505 
 
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 515 
 
 520 
 
 m rmirri t rrnr m 1 m i m t m 
 
 (55) 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I y3 not surprised, most excellent spectators, 
 If I that am a beggar, have presumed 
 To claim an audience upon public matters. 
 Even in a comedy ; for comedy 
 Is conversant in all the rules of justice, 
 And can distinguish betwixt right and wrong. 
 The words I speak are bold, but just and true. 
 Kleon, at least, cannot accuse me now, 
 That I defame the city before strangers. 
 For this is the Lenaian festival ; 
 And here we meet, all by ourselves alone ; 
 No deputies are arrived as yet with tribute, 
 No strangers or allies ; but here we sit 
 A chosen sample, clean as sifted corn, 
 With our own denizens as a kind of chaff. 
 First, I detest the Spartans most extremely ; 
 And wish that Neptune, the Tainarian deity, 
 Would bury them in their houses with his earthquakes. 
 For I've had losses — losses, let me tell ye, 
 Like other people ; vines cut down and injured. 
 But among friends (for only friends are here), 
 Why should we blame the Spartans for all this? 
 For people of ours, some people of our own, 
 Some people from amongst us here, I mean ; 
 But not the people (pray remember that), 
 
 I never said the people but a pack 
 
 Of paltry people, mere pretended citizens, 
 Base counterfeits, went levying informations, 
 A.nd making a confiscation of the gherkins 
 Imported here from Megara ; pigs moreover, 
 Pumpkins, and pecks of salt, and ropes of onions, 
 Were voted to be merchandise from Megara, 
 Denounced, and seized, and sold upon the spot. 
 Well, these might pass, as petty local matters. 
 
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 53o 
 
 535 
 
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 to vecopiov 6" av tcanrecov 7r\arovpevcov, 
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 54o 
 
 545 
 
 550 
 
* * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Then Perikles, like an Olympian Jove, 
 
 With all his thunder and his thunderbolts, 
 
 Began to storm and lighten dreadfully, 
 
 Alarming all the neighborhood of Greece ; 
 
 And made decrees, drawn up like drinking songs, 
 
 In which it was enacted and concluded 
 
 That the Megarians should remain excluded 
 
 From every place where commerce was transacted, 
 
 With all their wares — like " old care " in the ballad — 
 
 And this decree, by land and sea, was valid. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * and so they went to war. 
 You'll say, " They should not." Why, what should they have done? 
 Just make it your own case ; suppose the Spartans 
 Had mann'd a boat, and landed on your islands, 
 And stolen a puppy dog from Seriphos ; 
 Would you then have remained at home inglorious ? 
 Not so, by no means ; at the first report, 
 You would have launch'd at once three hundred galleys, 
 And fill'd the city with the noise of troops ; 
 And crews of ships, crowding and clamoring 
 About the muster-masters and pay-masters ; 
 With measuring corn out at the magazine, 
 And all the porch choked with the multitude ; 
 With figures of Minerva, newly furbish'd, 
 Painted and gilt, parading in the streets ; 
 With wineskins, kegs and firkins, leeks and onions ; 
 With garlic cramm'd in pouches, nets and pokes ; 
 With garlands, singing girls and bloody noses. 
 Our arsenal would have sounded and resounded 
 With bangs and thwacks of driving bolts and nails ; 
 With shaping oars, and holes to put the oar in ; 
 With hacking, hammering, clattering and boring ; 
 
 rn n i i i r i rrr 
 
 (58) 
 
UJIlii i Ui 1 til I UJ I UJ 1 UJ I UJ 
 
 av\(3v /ceXevcTTCov, piyXdpcov, crvpty/jbdrcop. 
 tclvt ol& otl civ eBpare ' top Be TijXecpop 
 ovk olofxea-Qa ; povs ap tj/jllv ovk em. 
 
 HMIXOPOS. 
 
 akrjOes, 0)7riTpi7rre kclI /juapcbrare ; 
 ravrl av roX/JLas 7ttg)^o? cop rjfjias \eyecp, 
 kcu o-VKoqjdprrjs el tis rjv, aDpelBcaas ; 
 
 HMIXOP02. 
 prj top Uoo-ecBco, /cat Xeyei y direp \eyec 
 Bi/ccua iravra KovBep avrcop ^evBerat. 
 
 HMIXOP02. 
 
 elr el BIkcucl, tovtop elirelv avr eyjpr)p ; 
 a)OC ovtl yaipoDV tclvtcl roXfiTjo-ec Xeyecv. 
 
 HMIXOP05. 
 
 ovtos crv irol Oels, ov fiepets ; &)? el Bevels 
 rbv dpBpa tovtop, clvtos apdrjaeL rd^a. 
 
 hmixopos. 
 
 la> Ad/JLa%, ft> /3\e7ro)p darpa7rds, 
 /3otf6r)o-op, w yopyo\6(j)a, <f>apefe, 
 Ico Ad/jba^, <*) <f>l\\ w <j>v\eTa • 
 elr earn ra^iap^os rj o-TpaTrjybs i) 
 Tec^o/Jbd^as dprjp, j3or)07}crdTCO 
 Tt? dpvaas. €70) yap e^ofiac yu-ecro?. 
 
 EgSES 
 
 555 
 
 560 
 
 56S 
 
 57^ 
 
Words of command, whistles and pipes and fifes. 
 " Such would have been your conduct. Will you say, 
 That Telephos should have acted otherwise?" 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS I {rush forward, threatening Dikaiopolis). 
 
 Is this to me, you pauper ? Dare you cast a slur 
 On some (if such there be) informer's character ? 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS II (advance, favoring Dikaiopolis). 
 
 By Neptune ! but the man, for all that I have heard, 
 Is right in what he says ; there's truth in every word. 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS I. 
 
 What care I, right or not ? Was it for him to say it ? 
 No, no, and with some broken bones the rogue shall pay it. 
 
 \_Semi-chorus I rushes towards Dikaiopolis. 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS II. 
 
 Where are you running ? Stay : I warn you, have a care, 
 Touch him and you shall find your legs are in the air. 
 
 [The two semi-choruses scuffle. 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS I. 
 
 Ho ! lightning-looker, Lamachos, 
 
 Ho ! Gorgon-crested, succor us ; 
 
 My friend, my tribesman, hear me call, 
 
 Or captain else, or general, 
 
 Or rampart-sealer, hither ; haste ! 
 
 For he has got me round the waist. 
 
 (60) 
 
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 AAMAX05. 
 
 0©EN /3or)<; rfKovaa iroXe^iicrTrjpia^ ; 
 TTol %pr) ftorjOelv ; irot KvBoifibv efJbftaXetv ; 
 rk Topyov e^rjyeipev i/c rod o-dy/JLaros ; 
 
 HMIXOPOS. 
 0) Adfia% r)p(0$, rtov \6<j)cov teal rwv \6%cdv. 575 
 
 HMIX0P02. 
 to AdjjLa%, ov yap ovro? avOptoiro? irdXai 
 airavav fjfitov rrjv ttoXlv tcaicoppoOei ; 
 
 aamaxos. 
 ovtos <tv roXfias 7rTft)^o<? toy Xeyeiv rdhe ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 to Adfia% rjptos, dXkd <Tvyyva>fW)V e^e, 
 el TTTtoyo*; tov elirov ri /cdo-rto/jLvXd/JLTjv. 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 ri 5* el7ra? ^yua? ; ovk ipels ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAlS. 
 
 ovk olSa. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 TTW? * 580 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 vtto tov Seou? yap t&v oirXcov tXcyycco. 
 
 dXX* avriftoXto a\ direveyici fiov rrjv fiopfiova. 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 ihov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 irapdOes vvv vwriav avrrjv i/ioi. 
 
 (61) 
 
Enter Lamachos from his house. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 What battle-cry is this I hear about the place ? 
 
 Who calls for help ? Who wakes the Gorgon from its case ? 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS II (retreats in fright). 
 My hero Lamachos of crests and companies ! 
 
 SEMI-CHORUS I. 
 
 Here is, my Lamachos, this man of many lies, 
 Who troubles all the city with his foul aspersions. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 You, beggar ! Have you dared to make some vile assertions ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 My hero, Lamachos, I beg you to forgive, 
 If for a beggar, I have been too talkative. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 What did you say of us ? Speak, sir. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Did I? 
 
 I quite forget ; 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Eh? what sir? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The aspect of your armor makes me giddy. 
 I do beseech you, put the bugbear out of sight. 
 
 I do. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Nay, upside down. 
 
 mmmmmimmm 
 
 (62) 
 
<j>4p€ vvv airo tov /cpavov? flOl TO TTTCpOV, 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 tovtI tttlXov col. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 tt}? fce<j>aXr)$ vvv fiov Xaffov, 585 
 
 iv ef efteato • fiSeXvTTOfiat, yap tou? Xo<j>ovs. 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 outo5, Tt hpao-eis ; tc3 tttIXo) fieXXeis ifielv ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAl5. 
 
 tttiXov yap io~Tiv ; ewe fioi, rivos ttotc 
 SpvcOos €(ttlv ; apa KopmoXaicvQov ; 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 
 oifi to? reBvri^eis. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 fiTjSafiws, w AdfJLaxe • 590 
 
 ou 0-771/ /caT tV^uv cotm/ * et S' tV%t//>o? el, 
 rt /x-* ou/c a7T€yfrcoXr}(ra < i ; eiW\o9 yap ec. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 Tavrl Xeyec? <rv tov crTpaTTjybv 7TT6)^o? (ov ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 iya> yap elfju 7Tto)^09 ; 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 dXXa tU yap el ; 
 
 m 
 
 1 
 
 (63) 
 
fflifmfflifmfiiifflifiufii 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Well, there it is. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 That's right. 
 And now the feather from your helmet. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 What you will. 
 [Lamachos takes a feather from his helmet and gives it to DiJcaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Then, pray you, hold my head ; for I feel very — ill ; 
 I'm sick — of crests. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Eh ? Sir, what do you think to do ? 
 You will not try to use the feather, sir. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Aye, true ; 
 A feather is it ? Pray, of what bird ? May I know ? 
 Perhaps 'tis from the tail of Braggadocio ? 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Ha ! villain, you shall die. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No, no, my Lamachos, 
 It is not might but right which shall determine us. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Beggar ! this language to your General ? to me ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Am I a beggar then ? 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 If not, who may you be ? 
 
 (64) 
 
AIKAI0II0AI5. 
 octtls ; ttoXitt)*; xprjaros, ov aTrovBap^lBrj^f 595 
 
 a\V ef orov irep 6 TroXefios arpaTcovtSrjs, 
 av B' e'f orov irep 6 7ro\e//.o? /JUcrOapxiSr)?. 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 exeipoTovrjaav yap fie 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 KOKKwyis ye r pels, 
 ravT ovv eya) ftBeXvTTOfievos eo-ireio-dfirjv, 
 opcov 7ro\tovs fiev dvBpas ev rals rdijeatv, 600 
 
 veavias B* olos av BiaBeBpatcoras 
 
 rovs fiev eirl Spatcr)? fitaOo^opovvras rpeis Bpayjids, 
 Ticra(jL€vo(f>aivi7r7rov$i Havovpyanrap^iBaf; • 
 erepovs Be irapa XdprjTt, tovs & ev Xaocri 
 TeprjToOeoScopovs, AiofieiaXa^ovas, 605 
 
 tovs S* ev l^afiaplvrj icdv TeXa icdv KarayeXa, 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 e^eipOTOvrjOrjaav yap. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 atriov be ri 
 v/ids fiev del fiiaOocpopeiv dfir)ye7rrj, 
 rwvBl Be firjBev ; ereov, &> MaptXaBr], 
 
 rjBrj Treirpeo- fiev teas av ttoXlos cov evrj ; 610 
 
 dvevevae • /ealroc y earl aaxfrpcov KapyaTTj^, 
 ri Bal ApdfcvXXos KevtyopiBrj? rj UpcviBrjs ; 
 elBev res vficov rd/cfidrav rj tovs Xadz>a? ; 
 ov (JMio-iv. a\V 6 Ko lav pas /cal Kafia^os, 
 oh vir epdvov re koX %/oew^ Trpcor/v irore, 615 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 An honest citizen, with no high place to boast ; 
 But, since the war began, a soldier at my post, 
 While you have been as long receiver of high pay. 
 
 LAMACH08. 
 
 They freely voted me. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Three cuckoos make your "they.' 
 To my disgust at things like this my Truce owes thanks. 
 I saw grey-headed men still marching in the ranks ; 
 While striplings, such as you, misliking toil and dust, 
 Found refuge in appointments of high pay and trust. 
 Some drew three drachmas for a Thracian embassy, 
 Ismenirphainippi, Roguehipparchidai. 
 Chaonia had — and Kamarina had its share ; 
 Some Chares entertained ; to Gela some repair ; 
 Some went to — Scorn. 
 
 • LAMACHOS. 
 
 Freely elected all. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 But why ? 
 How falls it out that you, and you alone, supply 
 The city's needs — Marilades, your hair is grey, 
 Have ever you been legate, or received the pay ? 
 He shakes his head; yet he's a shrewd, hard-working man. 
 Drakyllus, have you ever been to Ekbatan ? 
 Did Prinides, or did Euphorides e'er go 
 To the Chaonians ? you see, they all say, no. 
 Aye, who are they that go but Koisyra's wild son, 
 And Lamachos ? whose credit with their friends has run 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 B 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (66) 
 
tocnrep dirovtirTpov i/cyeovTes ecrTrepas, 
 airavTes e^to~Tco raprjvovv ol fyiXoi. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 o) Srj/jLo/cparla, ravra Btjt avaa-yera ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ov Brjr\ eav /jltj /juaOo<f>opf} ye Aa/xa^o?. 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 dXX* ovv eyco fiev iracn TleXoTrovvrjo-lois 620 
 
 del 7ro\,€fi7](r(0, teal rapd^co iravrayrj, 
 xal vavcrl teal ire^olai, kcltcl to tcapTepov. 
 
 „& AIKAIOIIOAT2. 
 
 eyco Be KrjpvTTco ye TieXoirovvrjaloLS 
 
 airacri teal WLeyapevaL teal BotcoTtot? 
 
 irwXelv dyopd^ecv irpos e'/xe, \ap,dyu> Be fMrj. 625 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 avrjp vitea Tolcri Xoyoiaiv, teal rov BrjfjLov fieTcnreldei 
 jrepl tcov airovBcov. dXX* d7roBvvres rocs dvairaicrroi,^ iirlcofiev. 
 'Ef ov ye yopolcriv ecfyeaTrjteev rpvyucols 6 BiBdaieaXos ijficov, 
 ovirco 7rape/3rj 777)0? to OeaTpov Xe^cov cos Be^tos ecrTiv ' 
 BtaftaWo/jbevos S' vtto tcov eydpeov ev 'AOrjvalois Tayv{3ovXoL$, 630 
 a>? KcojxcoBel ttjv ttoXlv rjficov teal tov Brjfiov teaOvftpt^ei, 
 OLTTOKpivea-Qai BetTat vvvl 7T/30? ' AOrjvalovs /JLeTaftovXovs. 
 cprjcrlv B' elvac ttoXXcov dyaOcov a%LO<$ vjmv 6 7TOL7]Ti]<i, 
 iravcras vfias ^eviKolcri Xoyois fir) Xiav e^airaTaaQai, 
 ^irjO' TjBecrOat dcoirevofxevovs /jltjt elvac yavvoiroXiTas. 635 
 
 nrpoTepov 8' v/xds airb tcov iroXecov ol Trpecrfieis e^airaTcovTes 
 wpcoTov fiev locrTecpdvov? etcdXovv • /cdireoBr) tovto tis e^irou, 
 evOvs Bid tov? crTecf>dvov$ eir atepcov tcov irvyiBicov e/edOrjcrde. 
 el Be Tt? vfids viroOcoirevaas Xiirapas tcaXecreiev 'AOtfvas, 
 
 (67) 
 
Beyond all bounds ; that, with their presence here annoyed, 
 Like folks who empt their slops at night, they say, avoid ! 
 
 LAMACIIOS. 
 
 Democracy ! — and are such words to be endured ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Yes, if to Lamachos good office is secured. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Know all that dwell in Pelops' land that I engage 
 With them and theirs a never-ceasing war to wage ; 
 By sea and land, wherever boat can swim or man can fight, 
 While I pursue and harry them with all my might. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Know all that dwell in Pelops' land, and know the same, 
 Boiotians, and Megarians, that I proclaim 
 Free market to them all, to buy and sell with us ; 
 From which free market I prohibit Lamachos. [Exeunt omnes. 
 
 {Chorus throw off their himatia and advance.) 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Public opinion goes with the man and thinks he has made a very good case 
 In behalf of his truce — Therefore strip we : this is a fitting anapest place. 
 
 (The Parabasis, spoken by the leader of the chorus.) 
 Since this Author tutored the actors, he has never in his comedies 
 Offered himself upon the stage to tell the world how clever he is. 
 Since, however, he is traduced by some who think they owe him a grudge, 
 In your ears, Athenians, who are quicker to hear than steady to judge ; 
 Now he appeals to your better judgment, confident you will acknowledge it true, 
 That he never insulted the people, or undertook to ridicule you. 
 Nay, but the city is his debtor ; he it was who arrested the course 
 Of that fatal habit you had of yielding yourselves to flattery's force. 
 Heretofore when the state's commissioners came with an eye to bamboozle the town, 
 Did they ever fail to address you as the men " of the violet crown?" 
 Straight at the word you were up in your seats ; but if the cunning fellow 
 
 should add 
 " Glistening Athens " you would give him out of hand whatever you had. 
 
 wmfflsffimmmm 
 
 (68) 
 
evpero irav av Bid ras Xtirapd^, d<f>vcov tc/jltjv Trepid-tyas* 640 
 
 ravra irotr)o~a^ iroXXcav dyaddSv aiTtos vfilv yeyevrjTai, 
 
 teal rot»9 Brj/u,ov$ iv raU tto\€<tlv 8e/fa?, a>? Brj/JLOKparovvrai. 
 
 TOtydproc vvv €K tgov TroXewv tov <f>6pov v/Jblv dirdyovTes 
 
 rj^ovaiv IBelv, iiriOvfiovvTe^ tov Troirjrrjv tov apiarov, 
 
 ocr-m irapeKivBvveva elirelv iv 'AOrjvalois ra BUava. 645 
 
 ovrco 8* avrov irepl rf}? ToXfjLrjs r}Br] iroppw /c\eo9 rjicei, 
 
 ore zeal fiaaiXevs, AatceBai/jLovl(ov rrjv irpecrfieiav ftaaavifav, 
 
 rjpcorijcrev 7rp(ora fiev avTovs irorepoi rats vaval Kparovcnv * 
 
 elra Be tovtov rbv iroirjrrjv iroTepovs ec7roi Katca TroWd • 
 
 tovtovs yap e<f>r) tovs dvOpoiirov^ tto\v fieXriovs yeyevrjaOat 650 
 
 KaV To3 7T0\e/JL(p 7T0\V VLK7](T€tV) TOVTOV %V fJiftovXoV €%OVTaS. 
 
 Bid TavO' u/x.a? AaKeBaifiovioi ttjv elprjvrjv irpoKaXovvTai^ 
 
 Kal ttjv Aiyivav diraiTovanv ' Kal tt}? vrjcrov fjuev i/celvr)? 
 
 ov cf>povTL^ova, aXV iva tovtov tov iroujTrjv d<j>e\(0VTai. 
 
 dX)C vfieis tol fjurj ttot dcprjd' • &>? KOd/jMoBijo-ei ra BiKaia • 655 
 
 (prjalv 8* v/jLas TroWa BiBdjjeiv dydO\ wctt* evBatfiovas elvai, 
 
 OV 6c07T€VCOV, OuS' V7TOT€tV(OV /JLiaOoVS, OvB* 6^a7TaTvW(0V, 
 
 ovBe iravovpy&v, ovBe KaTapBcov, dXka tcl fteXTicTa BiBdcKcov. 
 
 717309 TavTa KXecov Kal iraXafido-Oco 
 
 Kal irav iir ifiol T€KTaiv4o-0co. 660 
 
 to yap ev fi€T i/iov Kal to BiKaiov 
 
 l;v /jbfjLa^ov earraij kov fitf iroO^ d\(5 
 
 7T€pl Tf]V 7T0\lV COV tbaTTep €K€lV0^ 
 
 BeiXos Kal \aKaTa7rvy<tiv. 
 
 Bevpo Mova i\6e <f>\eyvpd irvpbs e%ovcra /xei/09, cvtovos 
 
 '' ' AyapviKT], 665 
 
 olov ef dvdpaKcov 7rpiviv(ov <f>ey]ra\o$ dvrjXaT, ipeO^o^ievo^ 
 
 ovpia piiriBt, 
 
All for the pleasure of the " Glistening! " very good word for the matter of 
 
 that, 
 Happily chosen, very descriptive, when applied in the praise of a sprat. 
 Thanks to the Poet, you in future will be freed from folly like this. 
 Has he not also taught the peoples out of the cities their infinite bliss 
 Being so thoroughly people-governed ? Henceforth when the tribute is due, 
 They will come with a zeal to see that wonderful Poet who lives among you, 
 Who in the cause of Justice ventured his very life in peril to bring. 
 Nay, so far the fame of his daring has already come, that the King 
 Lately taxed the Spartan ambassador ; after asking which of us two 
 Handled our ships best, " Tell me," quoth he, " which of you harbors that witty 
 
 man, who 
 Lashes his fellows right and left ? for that is the way to whip energy in, 
 And, by consequence, his is the side which in your war will assuredly win." 
 Therefore it is that Lakedaimonians offering us the plan of a peace, 
 Make the demand that in Aigina all our rights and interests cease ; 
 Not that they care at all for the island, but they indulge their cunning and hate, 
 Well aware that, in that event, your Poet will certainly lose his estate. 
 Yield it not, but trust that he will ever his powers of comedy use 
 Only to foster the city's welfare, only to teach, correct and amuse. 
 Do not look that he should flatter, or cheat your ears with any pretence, 
 Tickle your whims, or buy off enemies ; only look for thorough good sense. 
 Cunning as Kleon is, he shall not match me ; not all his artifice ever shall 
 
 catch me. 
 I shall have honor in trusty alliance ; true to the State, I set him at defiance. 
 We at the least you never shall find braggart in front and coward behind. 
 
 Oh, for a muse of fiery flashes, 
 
 Impetuous Acharnian ! 
 As the spark leaps up from the oakwood ashes, 
 
 Stirred by the breath of the fan ; 
 
 ^ — ~ ~^ ■ ■ 
 
 (70) 
 
*¥* 
 
 *Tf*F* 
 
 rjviK av eiravOpaiciBes axil irapaiceLfxevai, 
 
 ol Be Sa<riav avaKVfcwo~c XarapdiMirvKa, 
 
 ol Be fidrrcocnv, ovrco o-oftapbv eXde fjueXos, evrovov, 
 
 dypOLKOTOVOVy 
 
 a>? ifie Xafiovaa rov Brj/uLorrjv. 
 
 ol yepovres ol iraXaiol fJue^ofxea-Qa rfj 7roXet. 
 
 ov yap di; to)§ eKelvoav wv evav/na^rjo-a/nev 
 
 yr)po$ocncov pueaO^ v<f>' vfiwv, dXXa Bewd irda^pfieVi 
 
 o%Tive<$ yepovras avBpas efJifiaXovres i$ ypacf>a$ 
 
 vtto veavio~K(ov eare KarayeXdaOau prjropcov, 
 
 ovBev ovras, dXXd fcwcfrom teal nrape^r)vXr)p,evov^, 
 
 oh HocreiBodv 'Ao-^aXeto? eariv r) $aKTr\pia % 
 
 rovOopv^ovres Be yijpa rS XlOw irpoaecrTa^ev, 
 
 ov% op&vres ovBev el pur) t?}<? Blktj^ rrjv r)Xvyr)v. 
 
 6 Be veavias eavrS cnrovBdcras ^vvrjyopeiv 
 
 e? rd%o$ iraiei ^vvdirTcav crrpoyyvXois tois prffiaat • 
 
 tear dveXtevaas epcora, aKavBdXr)6p > lard? eirwv, 
 
 dvBpa TcOcovbv crirapdrraiv ko\ rapdrrcov teal kvk&v. 
 
 6 8* vtto yrjpcos fiacrrapv^eb, /car ocfrXcbv direp^erat • 
 
 elra Xv^ei teal Ba/cpvec, teal Xeyei 7r/oo? tovs <f>lXovs, 
 
 ov p? e^prjv o~opbv Trplaadac, tovt 6(f>Xcbv direpyojxai. 
 
 ravra 7rw«? el/cora, yepovr diroXeaai ttoXlov dvBpa irepl 
 
 tcXeyjrvBpaV) 
 7roXXd Br) gv/JLirovrjcravTa, icai Oepfibv dirop^op^djxevov 
 
 dvBpi/cbv IBpcbra Br) icaX ttoXvv, 
 avBp dyadbv ovra M.apad(ovc irepl rr)v iroXiv ; 
 elra M.apa0a)vi puev or rjfiev, eBuofcopuev ' 
 vvv S' vit dvBpayp irovrjpwv &(f)6Bpa Biw/cofjueOa, Kara irpos 
 
 aXio-KOfieOa. 
 
 670 
 
 675 
 
 680 
 
 685 
 
 690 
 
 695 
 
 700 
 
When the little fish for frying 
 
 Are beside the embers lying, 
 
 When the Phasian sauce is making, 
 
 When the griddle cakes are baking. 
 Such a stirring melody, 
 
 Loud and strong and free as the breeze 
 
 That whistles through our native trees. 
 Hither, Muse, and bring to me. 
 We, the veterans of the city, briefly must expostulate 
 At the hard ungrateful usage which we meet with from the state, 
 Suffering men of years and service at your bar to stand indicted, 
 Bullied by your beardless speakers, worried and perplex'd and frighted ; 
 Aided only by their staff, the staff on which their steps are stay'd 
 Old and impotent and empty ; deaf, decrepit and decay'd, 
 There they stand, and pore and drivel, with a misty purblind gleam, 
 Scarce discerning the tribunal, in a kind of waking dream. 
 Then the stripling, their accuser, fresh from training, bold and quick, 
 Pleads in person, fencing, sparring, using every turn and trick ; 
 Grappling with the feeble culprit, dragging him to dangerous ground, 
 Into pitfalls of dilemmas, to perplex him and confound. 
 Then the wretched invalid attempts an answer, and at last, 
 After stammering and mumbling, goes away condemn'd and cast ; 
 Moaning to his friends and neighbors, " All the little store I have, 
 All is gone ! My purchase-money for a coffin and my grave." 
 
 Is it not a shame to harry and spoil 
 
 By clockrun a man whose hair is white ? 
 
 Who has wiped the sweat of his manly toil 
 In the harvest-field and the fight ? 
 
 Better soldier was there none 
 
 In the fight at Marathon. 
 " Then," says he — nor wants it sense — 
 " Persians stood on their defence. 
 
 But the fight has turned ; for we 
 
 Are but defenders from the blows 
 
 Of native and ignoble foes." 
 
 (72) 
 
TTpo? rdBe rk dvrepel Mapyjrta^ ; 
 
 toj yap eZ/eo? dvBpa /cv<f>6v, rjXi/cov SovkvBlBtjv, 
 
 i^o\e<r6ai o-VfiTrXa/cevra rfj %/cvda)v eprjfiia, 
 
 rajBe tgj Krj(f)i(ToBr]/jLa), tqj \d\w ^vvrjyopa) ; 705 
 
 ghtt eya) fiev r}\erjo-a Kaire/jLop^dpLi^v IBcibv 
 
 dvBpa 7rp€<T/3vT7}V VTT dvhpO? TO^OTOV KVK(t}fieV0V, 
 
 o? fid rr/v ArjfirjTp*, i/cetvos rjvi/c' tjv SovkvBlBtj^, 
 
 ovB? dv avrrjv rrjv ' Kyaiav paBlcos: rjveo-^er dv, 
 
 dXkd KaT67rd\at(rev dv fiev irpobrov Eua#\ou? Be/ca, 710 
 
 /careftoTjcre K dv /cetcpayoos rogoras rpicrxiXiovs, 
 
 Trepiero^evcrev S' dv avrov rod TTCLTpo? to us ^vyyevel^. 
 
 dX)C eTrecBrj rovs yepovras ov/c idQ* vttvov Tv%elv, 
 
 yjrT)<f)io~acr6€ %<w/3t9 elvau rds ypa<j>d$, 07ra)9 dv rj 
 
 toj ykpovTi fiev yepcov ical vcoBos 6 £vvrjyopo<;, 715 
 
 tols veoiai K €vpi>7rp(OKTO<; teal \d\o$ yto KX6CVLOV. 
 
 Kd%e\avv€Lv y^pr) to Xolttov, tcdv (f>vyrj tk?, fyfjuovv 
 
 top yipovra toj yepovri, rbv veov Be toj via). 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS- 
 
 opoi fiev dyopd<i elo-cv oiBe t?}? ififjs. 
 
 ivravd 1 dyopd^etv irdo~L UeXoTrovvrjo-lois 720 
 
 egeo-Ti teal Meyapevan, teal Bomdtlois 
 
 6(f)' OJT€ 7TCO\6LV 7T/30? €/X6, Aa/xd^O) Be fir). 
 
 dyopavojjLovs Be tt)? dyopds tcaOlo-rafiai 
 
 rpeU tovs \a%6vTa<; TovaB* Ifxavra^ eic Aeirp6)v. 
 
 evravOa /jLrjre o-vtcocjjdvT'qs elo-lroo 725 
 
 fjurjT dXkos ootls <&ao~Lav6<; ear dvrjp. 
 
 iyeb Be rr)v o-rr/Xrjv tcaQT r\v eaireia-dfji^v 
 
 fAereifJU , Xva o-rrjeco <f>avepdv ev rdyopa. 
 
 (73) 
 
iAA>>y\Awv\yv^\Ay\ 
 
 Marpsias, will you answer me ? 
 Shame to see Thoukydides, when bent with years and fortune's stress, 
 Overtaken, left to perish in that Scythian wilderness, 
 Chatterpie Kephisodemos ! Truth to say my eye was wet 
 When I saw a man of worth by such a vagabond beset ; 
 A townguard archer ! yea, by Ceres, when he was Thoukydides. 
 He was one whom not Achaia would have ventured to displease. 
 Ten such as Euathlous would have known their length upon the ground 
 At his battle-cry ; three thousand " archers " would have fled the sound. 
 Archer ! quotha; he had found the fellow's arrows better mark ! 
 He had laid the archer's father and his kindred stiff and stark. 
 .Nay, but if ye will not suffer aged men in peace to sleep, 
 Let them have a court where they may battle by themselves and creep. 
 If an old and toothless man must mumble in his petty cause, 
 .'Set a mumbling advocate to vindicate the city's laws. 
 Pit the young against the young, for they have muscle, teeth and breath : 
 One of such in health may talk the son of Kleinias to death. 
 If there must be prosecutor, criminated man and judge ; 
 If there must be banishment to satisfy a jealous grudge ; 
 Make a new decree about it, and in future let it hold, 
 That the young shall try the young men, and the old men try the old. 
 {Enter Dikaiopolis, assigning the bounds and order of his new market-place, 
 placing thongs as clerks of the market.) 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, there's the boundary of my market-place, 
 
 Marked out, for the Peloponnesians and Boiotians 
 
 And the Megarians. All are freely welcome 
 
 To traffic and to sell with me, but not with Lamachos. 
 
 Moreover I've appointed constables, 
 
 With lawful and sufficient straps and thongs, 
 
 To keep the peace, and to coerce and punish 
 
 All spies and vagabonds and informing people. 
 
 Come, now for the column, with the terms of peace 
 
 Inscribed upon it ! I must fetch it out, 
 
 And fix it here in the centre of my market. [Exit DikaiopoUs. 
 
 itai^i^i^itai^i^iMM 
 
 (74) 
 
MErAPETZS. 
 
 dyopd 9 v 'Addvais %<xtpe, MeY<zpe{)cr£i> tyika* 
 eiroOovv rv val rbv <j)l\cov direp fjuarepa. 
 a\\\ w nrovrjpd Kcopc 9 aOXiov irarpo^, 
 afJbjSaTe ttottclv fidBBav, at % evprjre ira. 
 d/coverov Brf, irore^er ifMV rav yaarepa • 
 irorepa ireTrpdcrdai, ^pyBBer\ rj ireivrjv /ca/cw? ; 
 
 KOPA. 
 
 ireirpacrdai ireTrpaaOai. 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 eycovya kclvtos (j>a/ju. ti$ S' ovtcos avov? 
 09 vpe tea irpLaiTO, <f>avepdv ^afxiav ; 
 \Xa e<TTL yap fiot, M.eyapi/cd tl<; /JLa^avd, 
 Xpipovs yap v/jL6 (TKevdcras <f>aao) <f>epeiv. 
 ireplOecrde rdcrBe tcls 07r\a<; rcov %oipLcov* 
 07T&)9 06 coheir rjfiev e£ ayaoas U09 • 
 a>9 val rbv 'JLpficiv, etirep ll-elr oiKaBcg, 
 ra, Trpara ireipaa-eldOe Ta.9 Xifiov /cafca)?. 
 d\\ 9 d^iOeade koI raBl rd pvyyla, 
 KYjireirev 69 rbv adfc/cov coB 9 eaftalveTe. 
 o7ro)9 Be ypvWiijelre /cal Kot^ere 
 Xr/aeire (jxovdv yoipiwv fivcrrr]piK<av. 
 iycov Be Kapv^co AiKatoiroXcv orra, 
 kiKaioiroXi, r) \r}s irpiaaOai yoipia ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 rl ; dvrjp Meyapitco? ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 dyopacrovvTes iko/jl€$. 
 
 73o 
 
 735 
 
 740 
 
 745 
 

 Enter Megarian and his two daughters. 
 
 H ! there's the Athenian market ! Heaven bless it, 
 I say, the welcomest sight to a Megarian. 
 I've look'd for it, and long'd for it, like a child 
 For its own mother. You, my daughters dear, 
 Disastrous offspring of a dismal sire, 
 List to my words ; and let them sink impress'd 
 Upon your empty stomachs ; now's the time 
 That you must seek a livelihood for yourselves. 
 Therefore resolve at once, and answer me ; 
 Will you be sold abroad or starve at home ? 
 
 BOTH. 
 
 Let us be sold, papa ! — Let us be sold. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 I say so too ; but who do ye think will purchase 
 
 Such useless, mischievous commodities ? 
 
 However, I have a notion of my own, 
 
 A true Megarian scheme ; I mean to sell ye 
 
 Disguised as pigs, with artificial pettitoes. 
 
 Here, take them, and put them on. 
 (Puts pigs' snouts in the girls' mouths and hoofs in their ha7ids and envelopes 
 
 them in a large sack.) Remember now, 
 
 Show yourselves off ; do credit to your breeding, 
 
 Like decent pigs ; or else, by Mercury, 
 
 If I'm obliged to take you back to Megara, 
 
 There you shall starve, far worse than heretofore. 
 
 — This pair of masks too — fasten 'em on your faces, 
 
 And get into the sack here on the ground. 
 
 Mind ye — remember — you must squeak and whine, 
 
 And racket about like little roasting pigs. 
 — And I'll call out for Dikaiopolis. Hoh Dikaiopolis, Dikaiopolis ! 
 I say, would you please to buy some pigs of mine? \_Re-enter Dikaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What's there ? a Megarian ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Yes, we're come to market. 
 
 £<«««««««««« 
 
 (76) 
 
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 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 7T&)? €%6T€ 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 Bcaireivafie^ del ttotto irvp. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 a\V rjBv rot vrj rov At", rjv av\b$ Trapy, 
 ri S' aXKo irpdrTeO* oi Meyaprjs vvv ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 ola Btj. 
 
 o/ca fiev iycDv rrjveoOev ifnropevo/jLav, 
 
 av&pe? 7rp6/3ov\oi rovr eirparrov ra ttoXo,, 
 
 07Tg>9 Ta^ccrra teal fcd/acrr airoXolfieOa. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 avriK dp diraXXd^ecrOe Trpay/xdroop. 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 <rd fidv ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 ri $ aXKo Meyapot ; 7nw? 6 crlro^ covlo? ; 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 irap 1 dfie TroXvTi/jLaro?, airep rol OeoL 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 a\a$ ovv <f>ep€i$ ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 ov% vfj.es avTcov ap^ere ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ov8e a/copoBa ; 
 
 755 
 
 760 
 
 mmmmmmmmmii 
 
 (77) 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 How goes it with you ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 We're all like to starve. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, liking is everything, if you have your liking, 
 That's all in all ; the likeness is a good one, 
 A pretty likeness ! like to starve you say. 
 But what else are you doing ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 What we're doing ? 
 I left our governing people all contriving 
 To ruin us utterly without loss of time. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 It's the only way ; it will keep you out of mischief, 
 Meddling and getting into scrapes. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Ay, yes. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, what's your other news ? How's corn ? What price ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Corn ? its above all price ; we worship it. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 But salt ? You've salt I reckon — 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Have not you seized the salt pans ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Have not ye garlic ? 
 
 Salt ? how should we ? 
 
 No ! nor garlic 
 
MErAPETS. 
 
 Trola (TKopoB* ; ty^e? rS)v del, 
 okk i<r/3a\r)Te, rm dpcopalot, pves, 
 Traao-aia ras ayXiOas i^opvcraere. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 tl Sal <f>ep€c<; ; 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 Xolpovs iycovya p,vcrTLfcd<;. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 dX\d fxav /caXau. 
 avTeivov, at A.779 • fc><? ira^ela ical KcCkd. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 tovtI tL tjv to TTpay/JLa ; 
 
 MErAPET2- 
 
 %olpo<z vol Ala. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 Ti Xeyeis crv ; irohaTrrj ^oopo? tfSe ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 M.eyapi/cd. 
 rj ov ^otpo? iaO* -ah" ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 ovk e/Jioiye <f>alv6Tai. 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 ov Seivd ; OdcrOe TOvBe tcls dirto-Tim ' 
 
 765 
 
 770 
 
 IlllllIlllIllAllilliJiJilillMI 
 
 (79) 
 
MEGARIAN. 
 
 What do ye talk of garlic ? 
 As if you had not wasted and destroyed it, 
 And grubb'd the very roots out of the ground. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, what have you got then ? Tell us ! can't ye ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Pigs- 
 
 Pigs truly — pigs forsooth, for sacrifice. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 That's well, let's look at 'em. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Ay, they're handsome ones ; 
 You may feel how heavy they are, if ye hold 'em up. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Hey day ! What's this ? What's here ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 A pig to be sure. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Do ye say so ? Where does it come from ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Come ? from Megara. 
 What, ain't it a pig ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS {pulls out snouts and hoofs). 
 No truly, it does not seem so. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Did you ever hear the like ? Such an unaccountable 
 
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 (80) 
 
SS5SS 
 
 ov (f>aTL rdvSe ^olpov tffi€v. aWa /xdv, 
 al X?}?, irepLBov /jlol irepl OvfiiTiBdv aXobv, 
 
 Ob fJLYj ^CFTIV OVTOS XOtpOS 'l&WaVCDV VO/JL(p. 
 
 3J£ 3fc $fc $fc ?K ?F 7& 
 
 r) A779 cucovaai </>#€yyo/-iem? ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 vrj tou9 Oeovs 
 eycoye. 
 
 MErAPEYS. 
 
 (fxovei, Br) tv Ta^eo>9, ypipiov. 
 ov yjpr\a6a ; o-i<yr)<$, w kclkhtt airo\ovp,kva ; 
 iraXiv tv airoL<T(o vol tov 'Ftpfiav oifcaSis. 
 
 775 
 
 
 
 
 
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 (81) 
 
Suspicious fellow ! it's not a pig he says ! 
 But I'll be judged ; I'll bet ye a bushel of salt, 
 It's what we call a natural proper pig. 
 But come, will you hear 'em squeak ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ay, yes, by Jove, 
 With all my heart. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Come now, pig ! now's the time : 
 Remember what I told ye — squeak directly ! 
 Squeak can't ye ? Curse ye, what's the matter with ye ? 
 Squeak when I bid you, I say ; by Mercury, 
 I'll carry you back to Megara if you don't. 
 
 Wee We'e. 
 
 DAUGHTERS. 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Do ye hear the pig ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The pig, do ye call it ? 
 
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 MErAPETS. 
 
 
 vol TOP 
 
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 , kclv avev <ya tw warpo? 
 
 
 
 AiKAionoAix 
 
 
 tL 8* eadiei fiaXccTTa ; 
 
 
 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 
 
 
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 tea St8a>?. 
 
 avrbs 8* 
 
 ip(i)T7). 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 Xolpe %otpe. 
 
 KOPA. 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 /COL KO'L 
 
 Tpebyoi? 
 
 av epefiivQovs ; 
 
 
 
 
 KOPA. 
 
 
 
 
 fCO'l KOI KO'L 
 
 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 
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 </>t/3aXeo)9 l<r%d8a$ ; 
 
 
 
 
 KOPA. 
 
 
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 You warrant 'em weaned ? they'll feed without the mother ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Without the mother or the father either. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 But what do thev like to eat ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 You may ask them if you will. 
 
 Just what you give 'em ; 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pig, Pig. 
 
 DAUGHTERS. 
 
 Wee Wee\ 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Are ye fond of peas ? 
 
 DAUGHTERS. 
 
 Wee Wee* Wee Wee*. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Are ye fond of figs ? 
 
 DAUGHTERS. 
 
 Wee Wed Wee Wed Wee Wed. 
 
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 (84) 
 
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 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 Tt hai ; <rv teal Tpdtyois av avrd? ; 
 
 KOPA. 
 
 KOI KO'L 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 o>? 6%v 7T/309 rds wr%a$a? K€Kpdya,T€. 
 ivey/caro) Tt9 evhodev tcov ivydBusv 
 rot? 'XpipihioLcnv. apa Tpcogovrai ; fiafiai, 
 olov po0id£ov<r, w TroXvrl^Tjd' 'Hpa/cXei?. 
 irohanra ra X 0i P^ ; ® ? Tpayacrala <l>aiveTai. 
 dX)C ovrc iracras Karerpayov t<x? tV%a6a? ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 67a) 7«p avT&v rdvhe filav dveiXofiav. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 vr) tov At" aoWo) 76 to) ^oaKTjfiare • 
 ttoctov 7rpl(o/jLal <roi ra %ot,p£8ia ; Xe76. 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 to /iez/ drepov tovtusv a-KopoBcov TpowaXlBo^, 
 to 8' drepov, at \#<?, ^otWo? /toi/a? a\ow. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 wvtfo-o/JLaL aoi ■ irepi/iev avrov, 
 
 MErAPETX 
 
 ravra Bt], 
 'EpfJLa VTToXate, Tav yvvauca rdv ifidv 
 ovtco fi diro&oo-dac rdv J ifiavrov paripa. 
 
 80s 
 
 Sio 
 
 815 
 
Wee Wee\ 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 You little one, are you fond of figs ? 
 
 DAUGHTERS. 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What a squeak was there ! they're ravenous for the figs ; 
 
 Go, somebody, fetch out a parcel of figs 
 
 For the little pigs ! [Enter slave bearing plate of figs. 
 
 Heh, what, they'll eat I warrant. 
 
 Lawk there, look at 'em racketing and bustling ! 
 
 How they do munch and crunch ! in the name of heaven, 
 
 Why, sure they can't have eaten 'em already ! 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Not all, there's this one here, I took myself. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, faith, they're clever comical animals. 
 
 What shall I give you for 'em ? What do ye ask ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 I must have a gross of onions for this here ; 
 And the other you may take for a peck of salt. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS 
 
 I'll keep 'em ; wait a moment. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Heaven be praised ! 
 blessed Mercury ! if I could but manage 
 To make such another bargain for my wife, 
 I'd do it to-morrow, or my mother either. 
 
 [Exit Dikaiopolis. 
 
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 (86) 
 
5TKO*ANTH2. 
 
 NePHIIE, TroSaTro? ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 Xoipo7r(a\a$ "Mey apifcos. 
 
 5TKO*ANTH2. 
 
 ra %oi,pl8ia toIvvv iyo> <j>ava> raSl 
 7ro\e/j,ia Kal <tL 
 
 MErAPEY2. 
 
 TOVT i/Cetv, LK€l TToXiV 
 
 oOevirep dpya twv /ca/cwv dfuv €(f>v. 
 
 2YKO*ANTH2. 
 
 Kkdcov fieyapieis. ovk a<f>r}<T€(,$ rov adicov ; 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 At fccuoiroXt, AlkcuottoXi, (fxivrd^ofULi. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 V7T0 TOV ; Tt<? 6 (JXILVCQV (T €(TTIV ', dyOpdVOfJLOl, 
 
 tovs <TVKo<f>avTa<$ ov Bvpa^ i^eip^ere ; 
 tl Brj fiaOoov (f>aiv€L<; dvev OpvaXkiho? ; 
 
 2TKO*ANTH2. 
 ov yap <j>av<o tov? iroXefiiov? ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI5. 
 
 tcXdcov ye av, 
 el fjurj Wepaxre <rvieo(f>avTricr€i<$ Tpkyasv. 
 
 MErAPET2. 
 
 olov to Kcucbv iv Tat? ' AOdvais tovt evi* 
 
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 (87) 
 
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 Enter an Informer. 
 
 INFORMER. 
 
 Fellow, from whence ? 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 From Megara with my pigs. 
 
 INFORMER. 
 
 Then I denounce your pigs and you yourself, 
 As belonging to the enemy. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 There it is ! 
 The beginning of all our troubles over again. 
 
 INFORMER. 
 
 I'll teach you to come Megarizing here ; 
 Let go of the sack there. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 Dikaiopolis ! 
 Hoh Dikaiopolis ! there's a fellow here 
 Denouncing me. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Denouncing is he ? Constables, 
 
 Why don't you keep the market clear of sycophants ? 
 
 You fellow, I must inform ye, your informing 
 
 Is wholly illegal and informal here. 
 
 INFORMER. 
 
 What, giving information against the enemy ; 
 Is that prohibited ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 At your peril ! Carry 
 Your information to some other market. 
 [ The Informer is hustled out by Dikaiopolis and his market clerks. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 What a plague it is at Athens, this informing ! 
 
 [Re-enter Dikaiopolis. 
 
 (88) 
 
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 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 Odppei, MeyapLK • a\\' 079 Ta ^piplBi direBov 830 
 
 TVfirjf;, \af3e ravrl ra o~KopoBa /ecu tovs a\a?, 
 /cal %alpe tto^* 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 a\V a/ui> ovk iirL^ptov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 TroKvTTpcuynoarvvrjs • zw e? K€<f>aXr}v Tpkirono fioi. 
 
 MErAPETS. 
 
 <w xpLpihia, ireLprjaOe /cavi? tw irarpos 
 
 iraievv i<$> a\l rav fidBBav, at kcl tj? BiBa>. 835 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEflN. 
 
 evBaifiovel y avOptoiros. ovk ij/covaas ol irpo^aivei 
 
 to irpdyfia rod ftovXev/jLaros ; /cap7T(0O-€TCU yap avr)p 
 
 iv rdyopa KaOtffievos * 
 
 kclv ela-irj ri<$ Kr^o-ta?? 
 
 rj avKo^dvn)^ aWos, ol- 840 
 
 /jloo^cov KadeBelrac • 
 
 ovB* aWos dv0pco7T(t)v v7royftcov(ov ere 7rr]fjLavel tl • 
 
 ouS' efo fiop^er at Upe7n$ rrjv evpvirpwKTiav croi, 
 
 ovB* MCTTiel KXeeovv/juo) • 
 
 %\alvav B* eyoav cf>avrjv BUi • 845 
 
 kov %WTvyobv a f T7re/)/3o\o? 
 
 Blkwv dvaTfX.rjO'eL • 
 
 ouS' evTv^wv iv rdyopa irpoaeio-i croc fiaBl^cov 
 
 Kparlvo? del Keicapiiivos fioi%bv fica fMa^alpa^ 
 
 6 7repL7r6vr]po$ 'Aprificov, 850 
 
 ra%v$ dyav rrjv jJLOvaiKrjv, 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 never fear, Megarian ; take it there, 
 
 The payment for your pigs, the salt and onions : 
 
 And fare you well. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 That's not the fashion amongst us, 
 We've not been used to faring well. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No matter. 
 If it's offensive, I'll revoke the wish ; 
 And imprecate it on myself instead. 
 
 MEGARIAN. 
 
 There now, my little pigs, you must contrive 
 
 To munch your bread with salt, if you can get it. [Exeunt omnes. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Our friend's affairs improve apace ; his lucky speculation 
 Is raising him to wealth and place, to name and reputation. 
 
 With a revenue neat and clear, 
 
 Arising without risk or fear, 
 
 No sycophant will venture here 
 To spoil his occupation. 
 Not Ktesias, the dirty spy, that lately terrified him ; 
 Nor Prepis, with his infamy, will jostle side-be-side him. 
 
 Clothed in a neat and airy dress 
 
 He'll move at ease among the press, 
 
 Without a fear of nastiness, 
 Or danger to betide him. 
 Hyperbolos will never dare to indict him, or arrest him, 
 Kleonymos will not be there to bother and molest him. 
 
 Nor he, the bard of little price, 
 
 Kratinos, with the curls so nice, 
 
 Kratinos in the new device 
 
 In which the barber drest him. 
 
 (90) 
 
«<«««««f 
 
 o£cov kclkov to)v /JLao-^aXcov 
 
 Trarpb? Tpayaaalov • 
 
 ov8' avdcs av <re (TKa)yjreTai Tiavacov 6 Tra/A7r6vr)po<;, 
 
 Avatar par os r ev rdyopa, Xokapyicov oveiBos, 855 
 
 o irepiaXovpybs rot? /catcol?, 
 
 piyoov re koX 7T6LVCOV del 
 
 TrXelv rj Tpiaicov& r/fAepa? 
 
 rod firjvbs e/cdarov, 
 
 BOIflTOS. 
 Ittco Hpa/cXrjs, eKay^bv ya rdv rvXav #«#&)?, 860 
 
 KardOov rv rdv yXd-^cov drpifjia^, ^lafirjvla* 
 v/ies B\ oaoi <dei/3a6ev avXrjral irdpa, 
 toU oarlvois <f>varjTe rbv irpcoKTOv tcvvos. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 irav e? tcopaicas. ol a<f>r)fee$ ovtc dirb to)v Bvp&v ; 
 Trodev irpocreiTTavO* ol tccuccos dwoXovfievoL 865. 
 
 €7rl tt]v Bvpav fioc Xai/o^Set? fionftavXioi, ; 
 
 BOinTOZ 
 
 V7) tov 'loXaov, e7rc^apLTT(o y, w f eve • 
 
 SeifiaOi, yap <f>vaavres e^oiriade jjlov 
 
 rdvOeua t<z? yXd%(ovo$ direici^av ^afiaL 
 
 a\V el n (BovXei, irpiaao, r<ov eya* <j>epa), 870 
 
 tS)v opraXl^covy rj twv TerpairrepyXXiBayv, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 w yaipe, KoXXifco(f>dye HohotlBiov. 
 tl cf>epeis ; 
 
 BOIHTOS. 
 
 6(7 early dyaOd TSoicotois a7r\ft)?, 
 
 (90 
 
%. 
 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 wm 
 
 Nor he, the paltry, saucy rogue, the poor and undeserving 
 Lysistratos, that leads the rogue in impudence unswerving. 
 Taunt and offence in all he says ; 
 Ruin'd in all kinds of ways ; 
 In every month of thirty days, 
 Nine and twenty starving. 
 Enter Boiotian dealer carrying goods for the market, followed by his slave 
 
 and two pipers. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 NOW Hercules ! the weight has galled me, that it has. 
 Put down the flea-bane carefully, Ismenias. 
 You pipers, who from Thebes have followed all the 
 
 way, 
 Now put some wind into your leather bags and play. 
 Enter Dikaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Confound ye, stop ! Be off, ye drones ! Whence 
 have we these \Exeunt pipers. 
 
 Most dreary, humble-bumble bees of Chairides ? 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 By Iolas, my friend, and with my free consent, 
 For they have come from Thebes still blowing as they went, 
 And dropped me much good flea-bane. Please you, sir, to try ; 
 I've brought a store of things : chicks, locusts ; what d'ye buy ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ah, ah ! my dumpling eater, my Boiotian friend, 
 What have you ? 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 Some of all Boiotia can send, 
 
 IMIMI^I S tfsflcinijl E3 
 
 (92) 
 
iijiyjiiyiiijiiyiiijiiyiii 
 
 bpiyavov, yXa^co, yjnaOovs, OpvaWiBas, 
 vdco'as, koXoiovs, arraya*;, <f>a\aptBa<;, 
 rpo^lXov^, tco\vfi/3ov$. 
 
 AIKAI0II0AI2. 
 
 axrirepel yeLfioov apa 
 bpviOlas eh ttjv dyopav ikrjXvOa?. 
 
 B0inT02. 
 Kal fiav <f>epeo yavas, \aya><?, aXwireKa?, 
 <r«a\o7ra?, e^tW?, aleXovpcos, TriKTiBa?, 
 Z/cTiBas, ivvBpias, ey^eXet? KG>7rcu$a?. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 w TepTTvoTdTov (TV T6/J,a%o<; dvOpdmrois <f)€p(0V, 
 So? fjLoi, TrpoGwrreiv, el <f>epei,$ ras ey^eXet?. 
 
 BOinT05. 
 
 Trpio-jSeipa TrevrijtcovTa Ka)7raB(ov Kopav, 
 etcfiadi r&Be KTjTriyapiTTt tw %&v<p. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 o) fyCKraTi) av Kal irakai TroBovfJLevTj, 
 rjXde? irodeivrj pkv Tpvywhiicois %opoU, 
 <f>l\7] Be M.opv%q>. S/xwe?, i^eviyKare 
 ttjv io~%dpav fiot, Bevpo Kal ttjv pnriBa. 
 (TKeyjrao-Oey TratBes, ttjv dplcrTTjv eyyekW) 
 
 TJKOVaaV €KT(p /loXt? €T€l TToOoVfJLeVTJV * 
 
 7rpo(T€L7raT ai>TTjv, Si T6Kv ' avQpaKa<$ B* iya) 
 vpflv irape%(D TrjaBe tt)<$ f evrjs %dpiv. 
 a\V ei(T(f>€p y avTTjv ' firjBe yap Oavcov iroTe 
 
 GOV %«/3t9 eiTJV €VT€T€VT\aVG)/jLeVT]S. 
 
 875 
 
 880 
 
 885 
 
 890 
 
 (93) 
 
JJJJJJJJJJJJJ, 
 
 NAAAAAAAAAAA/Vl 
 
 Here's flea-bane, marjoram, here's wicks and mats of rushes, 
 Here's divers, dippers, daws, here's water-hens and thrushes ; 
 Teal, landrail, field-fare, widgeon. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What a flight of words ! 
 You've come into the market like a storm of birds. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 I've geese besides, and hare, I've foxes, hedgehog, mole, 
 Rat, otter, beaver, weasel, and to crown the whole, 
 Eels from Kopa'is. * 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ha ! man's choicest dainty ! bless it ! 
 Oh ! if you have the eel, permit me to address it. 
 
 boiotian (takes a huge eel from his bag). 
 
 Eldest of fifty daughters of Kopa'is deign 
 
 To smile upon the stranger, and your name sustain. 
 
 dikaiopolis (addressing the eel). 
 
 Much as I love and wish, thou, most desired of all, 
 Comest in welcome hour to this our festival ! 
 Beloved of Morychos ! The frying-pan and bellows 
 Here, slaves ; and look at it, the fairest of its fellows ! 
 
 (Enter two slaves.) 
 'Tis eight years since we saw the like ! eight weary years, 
 That we have longed for it with mingled hopes and fears. 
 Speak nicely to it, slaves, and hark, let it be dressed, 
 For I will find the coals and entertain this guest. 
 But take her in. For I confess I could not meet 
 My death composedly without thee — served in beet. 
 
 [Slaves march off with eel. 
 
 ^r* 
 
 (94) 
 
BOmTOS- 
 
 ifiol he rcfia raahe ira yevijcrercu ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 dyopas Te\o$ ravrrjv ye irov h(bcrei$ efioi • 
 c\V el tl ircoXei? rcovBe t<ov a\\cov f Xeye. 
 
 BOIftTOS. 
 
 Icoya ravra iravra. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 <f)epe, nrodov Xeyeis ; 
 t) (ftoprC erep' ivdevh* eiceiG a£et? ; 
 
 BOIflT02. 
 
 o ti y ecrr A-vavais, ev Boicotoktiv oe fjirj. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIX 
 a(f>va$ dp afet? irpidfievo^ <&aXr}pi/ca$ 
 fj /cepa/jLov. 
 
 BOmT03. 
 d<f>va$ r) tcepa/JLOv ; dXX* evr e/cei 
 dXX* 6 ti irap djuv fii] y <rri, Tahe S' av ttoXv. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 eywha toivvv ' <7VK0<f)dvT7jv e^aye 
 oscnrep icepafiov evhrjo-d/jLevo*;. 
 
 S95 
 
 900 
 
 BOIHTOS. 
 
 vrj to) a I a>, 
 
 Xdfioifjii fievTav /Cephas dyaycov kcli ttoXv, 
 aTrep iriOaKov dXiTpias nroXkas irXewv. 
 
 905 
 
mmrnn?Tr?rmr 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 But who will pay me for it ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 "lis my market due. 
 If you would sell the rest we can begin anew. 
 
 All are for sale. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Good then : what do you ask a head ? 
 Or will you take home other articles instead ? 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 If there is anything which Athens has, and we have not. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Phaleric sprats ? or Attic pottery ? 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 Pooh ! sprats and pottery ! we have them and to spare. 
 Find something which you have, and we have not got there. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I've hit it. An Informer will be just the thing ; 
 Put up like pottery ! 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 By the Gods ! he'll bring 
 A handsome profit for the show ; besides the fun in 
 Exhibiting my monkey, full of tricks and cunning. 
 
 _ _ mm 
 
 (96) 
 
fitiaiMiffitiniflifii 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 zeal firjv ohl Nt/cap%09 €p%€Tcu (fravcbv. 
 
 BOinTOS. 
 
 fjutcteo? ya fiaxo? ovtqs. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 a\\ y airav tcatcov. 
 
 NIKAPX02. 
 
 ravrl rivo<; to, fyopTi icrrc ; 
 
 BOinT05. 
 
 QetftaOev, cttco Aeu?. 
 
 twS' ifia 
 
 NIKAPX02. 
 
 iya> toLvvv 681 
 <f>alvo> woXefiia ravra. 
 
 BOIflTOS. 
 
 rl ha\ /ca/cbv iraOoav 
 6pvcnr€Tlotat, irokefiov rjpa koI fidx^v > 
 
 nikapxos. 
 teal ere ye <j>av(o 777)09 rotaSe. 
 
 BOinT05. 
 
 rl aBitceifievos ; 
 
 NIKAPX05. 
 iyo* <f>pd(TGy ctol rcov irepiecrTtoTGiv %apiv. 
 etc tcov irdke/ittov y eladyeu<; OpvaXkiDas. 
 
 (97) 
 
 910 
 
 915 
 
 1. 1 1 1 i n n .... mm 
 
mmm 
 
 Enter Nikarchos. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Here comes Nikarchos, prowling for a prey no doubt. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 'Tis but a little man. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 But solid rogue throughout. 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 Whose merchandise is this ? 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 I'd have you understand 
 'Tis mine ; from Thebes. 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 Then I declare it contraband : 
 They're enemies. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 What can the little birds have done 
 That you should rate them such ? 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 And I declare you one. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 What have I done ? 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 Before the standers-round to fix 
 Your proper guilt ; I say — You bring in candlewicks. 
 
 llflliniljl S IMII1IUI1 E3 
 
 (98) 
 
ffijMB^fflmw 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS- 
 €7T€ira <f>alvei<; Brjra St,a OpvaXXi&a ; 
 
 NIKAPXOS. 
 
 avTTj yap efiirprjaeiev av rb vecopiov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 vecopiov OpvaXXis ; 
 
 NIKAPX05. 
 
 olfJLCLl. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 rivt TpoTTcp ; 
 
 NIKAPX02. 
 ivOel? av e? ri^v dvr)p Bo^arrto? 
 ayfra? av el<T7refiyjr€oev e? rb vecopiov 
 Bt vBpoppoas, ftopeav eirirt]pr]<Ta^ fieyav. 
 /cecTrep Xaftoiro royv vecov rb irvp aira^, 
 aeXayolvr av ev6v<; % 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 w /cd/cior anroXoviieve, 
 aeXayolvr av virb rl<f>r}^ re ical OpvaXXihos ; 
 
 nikapxos. 
 fiaprvpofiac. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 %vXXd/JL/3av avrov rb crrofia • 
 So? jJLOi (fropvrov, Xv avrbv evBrjaas <f>ep(D, 
 ctio-7T€p KepafJLov, Xva fir) /carayfj <f)opovp,evo<$. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 evBrjaov, a> fieXricrre, ro3 
 
 920 
 
 925 
 
 ESSSS 
 
 (99) 
 
DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And do the candlewicks so much inflame your ire ? 
 
 NIKARCHCS. 
 
 Why ! one of them might set the arsenal on fire. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 A \rick can fire the arsenal ? 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 I say it can. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 How so ? 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 The thing is easy. Some Boiotian 
 
 Finds me an empty bean pod — 'tis a simple trick — 
 
 And in the bottom of it fixes me his wick : 
 
 He watches for a night when northern winds prevail ; 
 
 Kindles his wick and sets the little boat to sail 
 
 Down the main drain. If once the ships should catch the flame 
 
 Then all would be ablaze— 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And candlewick to blame ! 
 
 NIKARCHOS. 
 
 That I attest. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Gag him and stop the fellow's ravings. 
 I'll pack him neatly ; bring a flag mat and some shavings. 
 (Dikaiopolis and his slaves seize Nikarchos and make him up like a parcel of 
 pottery and cord him, he protesting lustily all the while.) 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 To preserve him safe and sound, 
 You must have him fairly bound, 
 
 (100) 
 
fei>ft> KaXcj<; rr)v ifiTroXrjv 
 
 OVTQ)<; 07Tft)9 
 
 av fir) (fripoov Kard^rj, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAl2. 
 
 ifiol fieXrjaet, ravr, iirel 
 
 roc /ecu tyofyel XdXov tl teal 
 
 TTVpoppaye? 
 
 tcaXX(o<; Oeotaiv i^Opov, 
 
 X0P02 AXAPNEGN. 
 
 tl xprjareral ttot avrtp ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 7rdy%pr)(TT0V ayyo? ccrai, 
 teparrjp tcatcciyv, Tpnrrrjp Slkcjv, 
 (jxiivew vwevOvvovs Xv^vov^ 
 X 0( >> Ka ^ KvXif; 
 ra irpdyfiar iytcvtedcrOai,. 
 
 XOP05 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 7TW5 8* av 7r€7roi0OLT) Tt9 dy- 
 yelw TOLoi>T(p xpcbfievo? 
 tear oltelav 
 too-ovS* del yfro(f>ovvTi ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 leyvpov &<ttiv, a>ydd\ axrr 
 ovtc dv /caTayeirj ttot ', el- 
 irep etc ttoBoov 
 /cdrco zcdpa tepifiairo. 
 
 930 
 
 935 
 
 940 
 
 945 
 
 jg|j|jgy||gjggj||g| 
 
 (roi) 
 
yy/v/v/v /v i jy^yvyvyvyvyvyy^Ji ^ T 
 
 With a cordage nicely wound, 
 Up and down, and round and round ; 
 Securely packed. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I shall have a special care, 
 For he's a piece of paltry ware ; 
 And as you strike him, here or there, 
 The noises he returns declare — 
 He's partly crack'd. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 How then is he fit for use ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 As a store-jar of abuse. 
 Plots and lies he cooks, and brews 
 Slander and seditious news, 
 Or anything. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Have you stow'd him safe enough ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Never fear, he's hearty stuff; 
 Fit for usage hard and rough, 
 Fit to beat and fit to cuff, 
 
 To toss and fling. 
 You can hang him up or down 
 By the heels or by the crown. 
 
 (102) 
 
WnTnTntntnWfiirntnTnWnrnrnl 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 77877 jca\a>$ e^et <tol. 
 
 BOmTOS- 
 fieXkco ye rot 6ep£B8eiv, 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 aXX\ <S %ev(OV /3e\TMTT€, avv- 
 
 Bepi^e /ecu tovtov \af3cbv irpoftdXtC oiroi 
 
 fiovkei cf>6p(ov 
 
 77730? irdvTa (rvKo^dvrrjv. 
 
 95° 
 
 AIKAIOTIOAIX 
 
 fjboXis y ivehrjera rov #a/ca>? a7ro\ov/jLevov, 
 cupov \af3cov rov /cepa/nov, <w BotcwTte. 
 
 BomTos. 
 
 v7t6kv7tt€ tclv rxiKav loov, '1 07-1771/4^6. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 X&ttco? KaTOL(T€i<; avrov ev\a/3ov/j,evo<;. 
 7rai/Tft)9 fi>ev oX<T€i<t ovBev vyies, aXX* 6/jlox; 
 tcav tovto Kephavrjs aycov to (froprlov, 
 evScu/JLOvrjaeis o-VKO<f>avT<bv y ovve/ca. 
 
 955 
 
 EfffiffiSEEfflffll 
 
 (103) 
 
CHORUS. 
 
 We wish ye joy. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 I'm for harvest business bound. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Fare ye well, my jolly clown. 
 You've a purchase tight and neat ; 
 A rogue, a sycophant complete ; 
 Fit to hang about and beat, 
 Fit to stand the cold and heat 
 And all employ. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I'd a hard job with the rascal, tying him up ! 
 Come, my Boiotian, take away your bargain. 
 
 BOIOTIAN. 
 
 Ismenias, stoop your back and heave him up. 
 There — softly and fairly — so — now carry him off. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 He's an unlucky commodity ; notwithstanding, 
 If he earns you a profit, you can have to say, 
 What few can say, you've been the better for him, 
 And mended your affairs by the informer. 
 
 [Exeunt the Boiotian and slave carrying off Nikarchos. 
 
 (104) 
 
©EPAnnN. 
 IKAIOnOAI. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS- 
 
 ri eo~Ti ; ri //.e /3coo~Tpei<; ; 
 
 0EPAIIX1N. 
 
 6 ti ; 
 
 etcekevae Ad/j,a%6s ae ravrrjal 8pa)tfif}$ 960 
 
 et9 tovs Xoa? avrm fierahovvat ra)v Ki^Xcav, 
 rpicov &pa%ficov & i/cekeve KcoiraS* ey%e\vv. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 o 77-0*0? 0WT09 Aa/xa%o? ttjv eyfteXw ; 
 
 ©EPAnnN. 
 
 6 Sen/09, 6 raXavpivos, 09 ttjv Topyova 
 iraXkei, /cpaBalvcov T/oet? /caracrtclov*; \6(j)0V<;, 
 
 965 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ovk av fJLa At", el Bolrj ye pot ttjv aairiha • 
 a\V eTrl TapLyei T0U9 Xo</>oi>9 /cpaScuveray 
 rjv S' airoktyalvrft tovs ayopavo^uov^ fca\<b. 
 eyca B* ifiavTw roBe \a/3cov to <f>opTiov 
 etaeifi viral irTepvyoav /a%\av kcCi ko^I^oov, 
 
 970 
 
 (105) 
 
BUIfljsniliiB (MINIMI ^] 
 
 Enter Attendant on Lamachos. 
 
 ATTENDANT. 
 
 Hoh, Dikaiopolis ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, what's the matter? 
 Why need ye bawl so ? 
 
 ATTENDANT. 
 
 Lamachos sends his orders, 
 With a drachma for a dish of quails, and three 
 For that Kopaic eel, he bid me give you. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 An eel for Lamachos ? Who is Lamachos ? 
 
 ATTENDANT. 
 
 The fierce and hardy warrior ; he that wields 
 The Gorgon shield and waves the triple plume. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS 
 
 And if he'd give me his shield he should not have it : 
 Let him wave his plumage over a mess of salt fish. 
 What's more : if he takes it amiss, and makes a riot. 
 I'll speak to the clerk of the market, you may tell him. 
 
 [Exit Attendant. 
 But as for me, with this my precious basket, 
 Hence I depart, while ortolans and quails 
 Attend my passage and partake the gales. 
 
 [Exit Dikaiopolis. 
 
 \«««««««««K<Z 
 
 U06) 
 
XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 ^s AE2 w elBes ft> iracra ttoXl tov <f>p6vtp,ov avBpa, tov 
 y vTrip(TO(f>ov, 
 
 (I oV e)(€i aireiadfJLevo^ ifuropCKa xprffiara BtefjL7roXav, 
 u)v ra fxev ev olfeia xprfcn/jua, ra 8' av irpeiret %Xiapcb 
 
 KarecrOieiv. 975 
 
 avTOfiara irdvr dyaOd TojBe ye iropi^erai,, 
 ovBeiroT iyco TloXe/iov ot/caB* v7roBe%o/jLai, 
 ovBe Trap* efioi ttotc tov ' ApfioBiov aaerac 980 
 
 %vyicaTaicXivei<i, ore Trapoivtos dvrjp ecj)V, 
 octtis iirl nrdvT dyad? eyovTas e7ri/efttyta<ra?, 
 elpyda-aro irdvTa tcatcd ledveTpaire Ka^e^et, 
 KafxayerOi ical irpoaerL iroXXd irpoKaXovfxevov, 
 Trove, KaTaKeMTO, Xafte TrjvBe (frikorrjcrLav, 985 
 
 T<Z9 ydpCLKCLS rJ7TT6 TToXv fXaXkoV 6TL TO) TTVpl, 
 
 eJ^eyei #' rjfiSiv /3ia tov olvov etc t&v dfiTreXcov. 
 
 * * * rat t iirl to Belirvov ajxa teal fieydXa Brj 
 
 <f>pov€i, 988 
 
 tov fttov B* ef eflaXe Belyfia TaBe tcl TTTepd irpb tcjv Ovpcov. 
 w JLv7rpcBc ttj tcaXf) /cat ^Ldpiai tois <f>iXai<? ^vvTpo<j>e AiaXXaytf* 
 ft>9 KaXbv eyovaa to irpoaonrov dp' iXdv6ave$. 990 
 
 7TW9 av e/xe real o~e Tt,<$ "Epax? %vvaydyoi Xaftajv, 
 coo-wep 6 yeypa/jLfievos, e^cov GTefyavov avdificov ; 
 rj irdvv yepovTCov tarco? vev6fju/cd<; fie o~v ; 
 dXkd o~e XajS<bv Tpla Bokw y dv eTi TrpoaftaXeiv ' 
 irpcoTa fiev dv d/jLTreXlBos opyov eXdaao fia/cpov, 995 
 
 eura irapa TOvBe via fLocryLBia cvklBcdv, 
 teal to TpLTov r)/JLepi8o<; o£ov, 6 yepojv 6B1, 
 
 (107) 
 
i»»»>»»»»»Tssi 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 He was wise to make his peace ; 
 
 Now the city knows it. 
 Wealth must in his house increase, 
 
 Commerce overflows it. 
 Articles of usefulness, 
 
 Articles for eating, 
 One upon another press, 
 
 Happy at the meeting. 
 I will never harbor War ; 
 
 He shall not be guest of mine, 
 Headstrong mischief-maker ; for, 
 
 Say you, " Take a cup of wine," 
 Roistering he comes to spoil, 
 
 Mars the feasting with a broil ; 
 Scatters, snatches, overturns, 
 
 Takes your vine-stakes up and burns ; 
 Yea, for all that you can say, 
 
 Madly stabs the very vine, 
 Lets its life-blood ebb away — 
 
 War shall not be guest of mine. 
 Foster sister to the Graces, 
 
 Reconciliation ! 
 Hitherto how fair thy face is 
 
 Passed my observation. 
 Crowned with roses, would some youth 
 
 (As we painted see Love) 
 Take you by the hand in truth 
 
 And give you to me, love — 
 " Wedding winter unto spring ; 
 
 Laying snow-wreath on a flower " — 
 Say you so ? but I will bring 
 
 Three enhancements for thy dower : 
 First, I'll trench a goodly line, 
 In it I will set the vine ; 
 Then a second I will dig 
 For young suckers of the fig ; 
 Wilder berries have their charm, 
 
 They shall have another row. 
 
 (108) 
 
koX irepl to 'xpypiov i\a8a$ airav iv /cv/c\<p, 
 
 &o~t a\€l<f>€<r0at <r air avrcov tcdfie rals vovfirjvLcus. 
 
 KHPYH. 
 cucovere Xeq* • Kara ra irdrpia tovs xoa<? 
 iriv€iv viro rrjq <ra\7riyyo$ • o? S' av i/CTrly 
 
 7T/)ft)Ti(7T09, aCTKOV Kt77<7£<£<WI/TO? XtftyeTCU. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 w TraiSes, w yvvaltces, ov/c rfKovaare; 
 tL Spare ; rod Kijpvfeo? ovk a/covere ; 
 avafipdrreT, ifjoTrraTe, rpeirer, d<f>4\fC6T€ 
 ra Xay&a ra^ia)*;, rov$ are^dvovs dvelpere. 
 <f>€pe tov<$ oftekicr/covS) Xv dvcnreipG) ret,? tcl^Xa*;, 
 
 XOP05 AXAPNEON. 
 £r)\<o (re tyjs euySouXta?, 
 fjbaWov Be t^9 €vco%La<;, 
 dvdp(07T€ t rfjs Trapovarr)?. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 tL Brjr, iireihav rds /a'^Xa? 
 07rT(0/jLeva<; cBtjtc ; 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEflN. 
 
 olfiaC ere teal tovt ev Xeyetv. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 to irvp viroo-KaXeve. 
 
 XOPOS AXAPNEHN. 
 
 rjKovaas a>9 fiayeipcfccos 
 
 IOOO 
 
 1005 
 
 1010 
 
 miiTiTmimrmimimTrn 
 
 (109) 
 
And, encircling all the farm, 
 Olives shall be set to grow. 
 
 Enter Herald. 
 
 HERALD. 
 
 Good people, hear. The statutes of the feast ordain 
 When as ye hear the trumpet sounding, ye shall drain 
 Your pitchers. He who first his pitcher shall have done 
 Shall have for his reward the skin of Ktesiphon. 
 
 Enter Bikaiopolis shouting. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What are you doing, slaves ? Wenches, where are your wits ? 
 Look to your business, take the leverets from the spits. 
 Do keep the pots a-boiling ; turn the fry ; and weave 
 Some garlands. I will spit the thrushes, with your leave. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Good counsel you before had shown, 
 Good living seems not less your own ; 
 My envy is excited. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ah, if you saw the thrushes roast ; 
 You would be quite delighted. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 You speak the truth without a boast. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 See, slave, that fire wants blowing. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 His orders are so like a cook's ! 
 
 (110) 
 
^i* 
 
 /eofiyjr&s re teal henrwqTLiccos 
 avrco hiaKoveirai ; 
 
 rEnpros. 
 ot/JLOt, rdkas. 
 
 AIKAI0II0AI2. 
 
 co 'Hpd/cXeis, Tt? ovrocri ; 
 
 rEnpros. 
 avrjp KdKohaLfMDv. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 Kara creavrov vvv Tpiirov 
 
 TEnpros. 
 co (piXrare, crirovhal yap elen crol p,ovcp, 
 jjL6TpT)crov elprfvrjs ri fiot, kclv irevT err]. 
 
 tl & €7ra#e? ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 rEnpros. 
 €7T€TpL/3r)v dirokecra^ rco /36e. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 7TO 
 
 dev; 
 
 rEnpro^. 
 diro Qvkrjs eXafiov ol Boccotloo. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 co TpMTKcucohaifjLcov, elrci Xevtcov dybirkyei ; 
 
 TEnpros. 
 kcu ravra fievroi vr\ At" coirep p? irp€cf>€Tr}v 
 iv irdcTL fioXiroi?. 
 
 1 020 
 
 1025 
 
 (in) 
 
fo W a mo MO MO ■oio¥oMo|OI^PIo¥ft|(oXol«lolo|okr«|oBol(>i A(>r 
 
 How lordly, suppingly, he looks, 
 And keeps the business going. 
 
 Enttr Farmer. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 H dear, Oh, dear ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What's this? 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 A man making a moan. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Then go your way. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 Good sir, the Truce is yours alone ; 
 
 Give me a Peace, if 'tis a trifle of five years. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What is the matter ? 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 I have lost a yoke of steers. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Where from ? 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 Aom Phyle. The Boiotians came across. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And you are not in mourning after such a loss ? 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 They were my comfort and support ; for them my heart does bleed ! 
 
 
 
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 (112) 
 
m t rn t m t m rrfi i m t m t m 
 
 AIKAI0I10AI2. 
 
 B4i 
 
 €LTa VVVl TOV C6€L ', 
 
 rEnpros. 
 aTroXaika Ta)(j)0aX/ii(b ha/cpvwv r<w ftoe. 
 a\\ y ei Ti KY]heu Aep/cerov Q>vXcl<tlov, 
 virdXei-fyov elprjvr) fie roo(f)6aXfjLCO Ta%v. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAlS. 
 
 a\X', a> 7rovr]p\ ov ^-qfiocnevwv Tvy%dv(D. 
 
 rEnpro^. 
 W' dvri/3oXco (T, rjv 7T&)? KOfiiacofiac rw /3oe. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ov/c €<jtlv, dXXd icXde 7rp6<; rod Titrrakov, 
 
 TEnpros. 
 <tv S' dXXd fiot, crraXayfibv elprjvr}? eva 
 eh tov fca\afjLL<Ttcov ivcrrdXa^ov tovtovi. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 ou$ dv o-TpifiiXLKLyi; ' dXX' dirtcdv otfico^e ttov, 
 
 rEnpros. 
 oifioi /ca/coBaifAG)v rolv yecopyocv ftoihioiv, 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEHN. 
 
 dvrjp ivevprjfcev ti rat? 
 
 <T7rovhai(Tiv rjSv, kovk eot 
 K€V ovSevl fieraBcoo-eov. 
 
 1030 
 
 1035 
 
 EIM1^1^10t^l^lMIE3 
 
 (113) 
 
UMUMUMUMmUMUMUjUJ 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, then, speak out, my man, and tell me what you need. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 And now I've lost my eyes, for crying in this fashion. 
 If Derketes of Phyle can move your compassion. 
 Do drop some Peace into my eyes ; a little squeeze. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 But I am not a parish doctor, Derketes. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 It may be I may get the oxen back. Only a little. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pooh ! go and carry your complaint to Doctor Pittal. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 The smallest drop of Peace. I do beseech you. 
 Here's a quill. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No, not a whisper. 
 
 FARMER. 
 
 Oh ! my yoke of steers ! [Exit. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 The Truce he finds a dainty fare, 
 Which he is indisposed to share, 
 At anybody's wishes. 
 
 Yrt i v m i i i i rrr 
 
 (114) 
 
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 AIKAIOIIOAI5. 
 
 Karayzi ah rr\<$ %op&)? to fiiXt • 1040 
 
 T«9 <Tt]iria^ O~Ta0€V6. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEflN. 
 
 7]/cov<ra$ opOiao-ftdrcov ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 oirrare ra<y%ek6ia, 
 
 XOP03 AXAPNEftl 
 
 airoKTeveZ? Xi/xw fie zeal 
 
 tou9 <yeiTova$ Kvlarj re koli 1045 
 
 <f>(ov7J roiavra \&<tk<ov, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 oirrare ravrl ical /caXws %av$i%ere. 
 
 nAPANTM*05. 
 
 IKAIOnOAL 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 Ti? OVTOal Tt? OVTOCL / 
 
 nAPANTM*OS. 
 
 eire/jiyjre tI$ a ot, vv/jl<j>Io<; ravrl Kpea 
 etc rcov ydjicov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAlS. 
 
 fcaXm ye ttoiwv, So-ris fjv. 1050 
 
 nAPANYM^OS. 
 
 i/ceXeve o° ey^eai °" € > T< ^ K P e ^ v X^P LVf 
 
 €9 Toy d\d/3ao~rov KvaOov elprjvr)? eva. 
 
 (»5) 
 
E31iIflisflj^Ei[!IiUlflJalE3 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 Some honey on the sausages. 
 And toast the jelly-fishes. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 The pompous air in all he says ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 See that the eels are frying, 
 
 CHORUS. 
 What -with the noise and smell so good, 
 And hunger, all the neighborhood, 
 And we, are almost dying. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And brown them. 
 Enter Bridesman and Bridesmaid. 
 
 BRIDESMAN. 
 
 Hoh Dikaiopolis ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Who's there ? who's that ? 
 
 BRIDESMAN. 
 
 A bridegroom that has sent a dish of meat 
 From his marriage feast. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, come ! that's handsome of him ; 
 That's proper whoever he is ; that's as it should be. 
 
 BRIDEGROOM. 
 
 In fact, my friend the bridegroom, he that sent it, 
 Objects to foreign service just at present ; 
 He begs you'd favor him with the balsam of peace ; 
 A trifling quantity, in the box I've brought. 
 
 (116) 
 

 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 air6(f>ep y dirofape ra Kpia teal fitf fjuoi BlBov, 
 w? ovk av iy^eaifii ^tXtftw Bpa'xjx&v. 
 aX\? avrrjl Tt? €<ttlv ; 
 
 nAPANTM*OS. 
 
 7) VV/Ji(f)€VTpCa 
 
 BeiTcu irapa t^? vvfi<j>r}$ tl crol Xigcu /jlovg). 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 <f>€p€ Br), tl (tv Xeyet? ; ft)? yekolov, w Oeol, 
 to Berjfjua t^? vvfi<f>r)<;, b Belrai fiov o-<f>6Bpa, 
 
 <f>ipe Bevpo ras cnrovBdsy iv avrfj Bw fiovrj, 
 0TL7) yvvr) '<TTl tov irdXifiov T ovk agta. 
 vire^ wBe Bevpo Tov^akenrrpov, &> yvvcu. 
 
 06(70' ft)? 7T0L€LT€ TOVTO ,* T7J VVfl(j)y <f>pdcTOV, 
 
 T& 7|C ?Jc *|t 7lC TjC "Pp" 3|t 
 
 a,7r6(f)€p€ Ta? cnrovBds. <f)€pe rr)v olvijpvatv, 
 Xv olvov 67^eo) \aj3(bv e? tov? %oa?. 
 
 XOP02 AXAPNEflN. 
 
 Kai /jltjv 6Bl Tt? ra? 6<f>pv<; av€o-7ra/ca>$ 
 cocnrep tl BeLvbv dyyeXwv iirelyeTaL. 
 
 AITEA02. 
 
 lay ttovoi T€ teal fid%cu kcll Adfia^oc. 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 Tt? dfi<f)l ^a\K0<f)dXapa BcofiaTa KTVirel ; 
 
 1055 
 
 1060 
 
 1065 
 
 1070 
 
 (117) 
 
m&fom.(W)rF).(£)T* 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 No ! no ! take back the dish ; I can't receive it. 
 Dispose it somewhere else ; take it away. 
 I would not part with a particle of my balsam, 
 For all the world — not for a thousand drachmas. 
 But that young woman there, who's she ? 
 
 BRIDESMAN. 
 
 The bridesmaid, 
 With a particular message from the bride, 
 Wishing to speak a word in private with you. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Well, what have ye got to say ? Let's hear it all ! 
 — Oh bless me, what a capital, comical, 
 
 Extraordinary string of female reasons, 
 
 * * * * 
 
 — Well, we'll indulge her, since she's only a woman ; 
 She's not obliged to serve ; bring out the balsam. 
 
 {Enter slave bearing Peace.) 
 Come, where's your little vial ? but I say — 
 Do you know the manner of it ? No, not you, 
 
 * * * * 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Now take the balsam back, and bring me a funnel 
 To rack my wine off. I must mix my wine. 
 
 [Exeunt all but Dikaiopolis. 
 CHORUS. 
 
 See yet another ! posting here, it seems 
 With awful tidings anxious and aghast. 
 Enter Messenger, 
 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 Oh ! toils and broils and Lamachos ! 
 Enter Lamachos, 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Who thunders at the brazen gates ? who calls on us ? 
 (118) 
 
AITEA02. 
 
 Ikvai cr eiceXevov oi arpaTTjyol rrjfiepov 
 Ta^ew? XafiovTa tov? A-o^ou? /cal tov<; Xocfrovs 
 Kairetra rrjpeZv vi(f>6fievov ra? etV/3o\a?. 
 vtto tovs HL6a<; yap /cat X.vrpov<; avTOtal t*9 
 rjyyeiXe \77crra9 ififiaXelv Hoccotiov?, 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 Icb o-rparrjyol irXeioves r) fieXrlove?. 
 ov Beiva fir) 'gelval fie /irjB' eoprdaai ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 l(b arpdrevfia iroXefioXafia^alKov, 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 olfioi /cafcoSat/icov, tcarayeXds ijBrj <rv /iov* 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 fiovXei fid^ecrOac Trjpvovrj rerpairrlXco ; 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 aiai, 
 
 oiav o fcr)pv% dyyeXlav r)yyeCXe fioi. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 
 alal, riva 8* av /not 7rpoarpe^ec Tt9 dyyeXtov ; 
 
 aiteao2. 
 kacaiOTToXi, 
 
 AIKAIOnOAU. 
 
 ri eanv ; 
 
 aiteaos. 
 
 iirl helirvov ra%v 
 fSahi^e, rrjv klo-ttjv Xaftoov teal rbv %o«. 
 
 io75 
 
 1080 
 
 1085 
 
 ¥lffl* 
 
 ("9) 
 
MESSENGER. 
 
 It is the General's orders that you go to-day, 
 
 Taking your companies and crests without delay, 
 
 To watch the passes in the snow ; for it is told 
 
 That certain thieves from the Boiotian side, made bold 
 
 By reason of our feast, trouble the neighborhood 
 
 With lifting prey. [Exit. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Oh ! Generals more numerous than good ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS 
 
 To go and leave the feast ! oh, terrible position ! 
 Oh, lamentable lamachoean expedition ! 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Is it at me you dare to cast such scoffs as these ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Wouldst thou do battle with four-winged Geryones ? 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Ah ! ah ! what heavy tidings did the herald sing me ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Hah ! ha ! what tidings will this coming fellow bring 
 me ? 
 
 Enter Messenger. 
 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 OOD Dikaiopolis. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 What now ? 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 Please you pack up 
 Your pitcher and provision box, and come to sup. 
 
 mrrmrrifmnw 
 
 (120) 
 
6 tov Aiovvo-ov yap <t lepevs ^eTaire^ireTau 
 
 a\V eyicovei • Benrveiv fcara/ecoXveis irdXai. 
 
 tcl B* oXka irdvr early Trapeatcevao'/JLeva, 
 
 Kklvai, rpdire^ai, 7rpoo~fce(f)d\aia, crrpoafiaTa, 1090 
 
 arecpavoi, fivpov, Tpayrjfjia6\ * * ■ * 
 
 afivXoi, ifkaicovvTes, o-Tjcra/jLovvres, Irpia, 
 
 opxrjo-rpiSesi ra tyiXTaO' * Ap/jLoBlov, KaXaL 
 
 dXX* ax; rd^iara (nrevBe. 
 
 aamaxos. 
 
 /ca/coBalficov iy<b. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 real yap crv fieydXrjv eireypd^ov rrjv Topyova, 1095 
 
 crvy/cXeie, ica\ Belirvov Ti? eW/eeuafera). 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 iral iral, $ep e%(o Bevpo tov yvXiov ifioi. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 iral Traty (pep* e%(D Bevpo rrjv klo-ttjv ifioL 
 
 aamaxos. 
 aXas OvfMLTa? olcre, iral, ko\ tepo/jL/jLva. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ifjbol Be refid^V ' tcpofi/JLVOi? yap axOofiai. 1 100 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 Bplov Tapi^ovs olae Bevpo, iral, aairpov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 fcd/jLol o~v Brj/xov Bplov • 6irTr)0~(d B* e/cec. 
 
 K««g«««««Kgtt 
 
 (121) 
 
The priest of Bacchus begs your company and waits. 
 
 The feast is all prepared, from tables down to cates ; 
 
 The cushions, couches, hangings, chaplets for the head, 
 
 The perfumes, sweetmeats, millet cakes, and wheaten bread, 
 
 And dancers ; so make haste. [Exit. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 My evil genius ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 You chose the Gorgon. Why reproach your fortune thus ? 
 But peace ; get ready. 
 
 {As Lamachos calls for the various articles of his military equipment Dikaiopo- 
 lis calls for the corresponding articles of his equipment for the feast.) 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Boy, bring out my havresack. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Boy, bring out the provision box for me to pack. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Some thyme-sauce and some onions for my service chest. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And me a slice of fish ; for onions I detest ; 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Bring me a leaf of salt fish ; it is soldier's fare. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And me a leaf of stuffing ; I will dress it there. 
 
 mmmmmm mmmm 
 
 (122) 
 
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 AAMAXOS. 
 eveyice hevpo r&> irrepa) rco V tov Kpdvov?. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ijiiol Se ra? (j>drra<; ye (f>epe icaX tcls /ct^Xa?. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 kclKov ye /cat \evtcbv rb rrjs arpovOov irrepov* 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAI2. 
 
 fcaXov ye koX %avdbv rb ttjs <j>drT7]<; /cpea?. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 a)vOpo)7T€, 7rav<raL fcarayeXcbv fiov rcov 07r\cov. 
 
 AIKAIOriOAIS. 
 
 wvOpwrre, /BovXei /jltj jSkeireuv eh ras Ki^ka? ; 
 
 v 
 
 AAMAXOS. 
 rb Xocpetov ii;ev€y/ce rwv rpiwv Xocfxov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 fcafiol \eicdviov rcov Xayaxov S09 Kpecjv. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 a\\' r) TpLx6/3p(OTe$ rovs \6<f>ov<; fiov fcarecpayov ; 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 dX)C rj Trpb Zeiirvov rrjv \xi)xapKvv fcareSo/jLcu ; 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 a)vdpG)7re, /3ov\eo fjbrj irpoxrayopevetv ifie ; 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIS. 
 
 ov/C) a\X' iyat ^a> irals ipl^ofiev wdkai. 
 
 1105, 
 
 no 
 
 P1UMUMU1UMUMUMU1UMUJ 
 
 (123) 
 
WMMMMmM 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Bring me the feathers which upon my helmet sit. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And me the pigeons and the thrushes from the spit. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 'Tis full and white ! the ostrich is a noble fellow. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The meat of wood pigeon is very plump and yellow. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 About my arms, my man, I'd have you cease your girds. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Can you refrain, my man, from looking at my birds ? 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Now bring me out the mount which holds the triple crest. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And me the dish of hare so exquisitely dressed. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Alas ! the moths have eat the long hair through and through. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Alas ! I'm eating hare — and supper's yet to do ! 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Will you be pleased, my man, to cease addressing me ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pooh ! Pooh ! T'is with my slave I venture to make free. 
 
 (124) 
 
mfrrrrrivfirrmrr 
 
 irorepov a/cplBes rjBiov icmv, rj KL^Xai ; 
 AAMAXOS. 
 
 oXyH a>? vfipt&is. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI^. 
 
 Ta9 a/cpL$a<; Kpivet, ttoXv. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 iral iral, /cadeXwv fiot rb Bopv Bevp' ef a> </>epe. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 Trat 7rat, o-u 8* a<j>eX(bv Bevpo rrjv x°P^V v </>£/>€. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 <^>6/)6, TOt) B6pClTO$ d<f>6\KV(TCO/JLai rovXvTpov. 
 
 e%, avri^pv^ iral. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 Kol arv, irai, rovB' avre^pv, 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 
 tou? /ciWl/3avTa$ olcre, irai, rr)<; aaTrLBo?. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI5. 
 KOL TTjS e/JLrjS TOU9 KpLJ3avlTa<$ €/C<f)€p€. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 $e/>e 8eO/50 yopyovcorov acnriBos kvkXov. 
 
 AIKAIOnOAIS. 
 
 Ka/jLol TrXa/covvro? Tvpovcorov So? kvkXov. 
 
 AAMAX05. 
 
 TaOr' ot) KarayeXaiS icrrcv avOpaywois ttXcltik; ; 
 
 C125) 
 
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 3 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 "What ? Locust yield a meat as sweet as thrushes ? Nay, 
 I'll wager you it isn't ; Lamachos shall say. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 You're insolent. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 He says that locusts win the day. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Boy, boy, bring out my spear ; it is above the shelf. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Boy, boy, bring out the string of sausage, stir yourself. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Come, let me get the spear out of its cover ; lend 
 A hand to help me. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Aye, take you the other end. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Bring out the tressels to support my goodly shield. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 To me bring out the rolls, their good support to yield. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 And now the Gorgon-backed, the shield, sir, if you please. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And now a pancake — broad and rounder than a cheese. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 If men find this a joke, they'll own 'tis broad enough. 
 
 (126) 
 
K i i i i v m i i n rrr 
 
 AIKAIOnOAI2. 
 
 ravr ov TrXaicovs Brjr earlv avOpwTrots <y\v/ev$ ; 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 
 /card^ei OV) iral, rovkaiov. ev tg3 ^oXklw 
 evopco yepovra BeiXias favgov/jievov. 
 
 AIKAIOIIOAIX 
 
 Kcurayei av to fiiXi. tcavddS' evSrjXos yepav 1130 
 
 Kkaeiv /ceXevcov h.d\iaypv tov Topydo~ov. 
 
 AAMAX02. 
 <f>4p€ BevpOy tcclI) Odopa/ca 7ro\€/jU<rTrjpiov. 
 
 AiKAionoAi5. 
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DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 If men find this a pancake — why, 'tis toothsome stuff. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Now pour some oil upon the brass. I see reflected 
 An old man in the act of cowardice detected. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Now pour some honey on. There is an old man here 
 Laughing at Lamachos. Fitz-Gorgonus ; that's clear. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Bring me the martial plate with which I arm my breast. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Bring me the pitcher wherewithal I warm my chest. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Against the enemies thus armed will I go out. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Thus armed am I prepared for any drinking-bout. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Now tie the blankets in the hollow of the shield. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Now shut the box ; so shall the supper be concealed. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 And I myself will bear the wallet to the field. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 And I will take a wrap to go through any weather. 
 
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 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Now take you up the shield and we will go together. 
 Bless me ! it snows. The night is very dark and stormy. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Pick up the box. A pleasant evening is before me. [Exeunt omnes. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Go ye, each with cheery heart, but your ways lie wide apart ; 
 His to garlands and potation, yours to shiver at your station. 
 We're determined to discuss our difference with Antimachos, 
 
 Calmly, simply, candidly ; 
 Praying to the powers above, and the just, almighty Jove, 
 
 To sink and blast him utterly. 
 
 He that sent us all away t'other evening from the play, 
 
 Hungry, thirsty, supperless ; 
 Him we shortly trust to see sunk in equal misery, 
 
 In the like distress, 
 With a pennyworth of fish, and a curious eager wish 
 
 To behold it fried ; 
 Let him watch, and wait, and turn, with a hungry, deep concern, 
 
 Standing there beside. 
 Let an accident befall, which shall overturn the stall, 
 
 And the fishes frying ; 
 There shall he behold the dish topsy-turvy, with the fish 
 
 In the kennel lying. 
 As he stoops to pick and wipe it, let a greedy greyhound gripe it, 
 
 Snatch and eat it flying. 
 
 For one misfortune that may do — 
 But I will find him number two — 
 With ague fevered, on his way 
 Towards his house some evening may 
 Orestes with a madman's force 
 Surprise and knock him off his horse. 
 Then blindly groping for a stone 
 
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May he find out — what he has thrown 
 Has left behind a dirty mark ! 
 And may it flying in the dark, 
 Escape the man at whom it sped 
 But hit Kratinus on the head — 
 
 Enter Attendant on Lamachos. 
 
 ATTENDANT. 
 
 Here, women, get hot water, towels, lint, and plaster, 
 And ankle bandages for Lamachos your master. 
 A ditch came in his way which he must try to take ; 
 But somehow in the dark he jumped upon a stake ; 
 And got a dislocation of the ankle bone — 
 Then in the fall he broke his head upon a stone. 
 Alas ! the Gorgon's head has tumbled from the shield 
 And, much I fear, is left for dead upon the field — 
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 There burst from him a loud lament in tragic tones, 
 " Oh glorious eye, while thus on thee I look my last 
 I take my leave of light ; for I am dying fast." 
 Thus having said he fell into an open drain — 
 But then some thieves ran by and he rose up again. 
 And followed with his spear, as they ran on before, 
 But here he comes himself. So, pray undo the door. 
 Enter attendants supporting the wounded Lamachos. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Ahtattah ! Ahtattah ! 
 Anguish thrills me, numbness chills me, 
 Constant bleeding — hope receding — 
 'Tis the foeman's spear that kills me. 
 But that which grieves me most is this — 
 If that Dikaiopolis 
 
 Should behold me, 
 He would mock my dismal plight, 
 He would say it served me right, 
 
 As he told me. 
 
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 Enter Dikaiopolis and train, 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Ahtah-latattah, ahtahtay ! 
 
 I drank the pitcher first to-day. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Oh, for the sorrow of my heart ! 
 
 Oh, for my wounds ! they throb, they smart. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 My Lamachos ! my jovial lad ! 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 I'm sorrowful. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 I'm very sad. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Why kiss you me ? 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Why do you bite ? 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 I've lost my reckoning in the fight. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
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 His reckoning upon Pitcher-day ? 
 
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 LAMACHOS. 
 
 Oh, bear me to the surgeon's ; 
 
 let him take me in. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 Oh, bear me to the judge's ; 
 
 let me have the skin. 
 
 LAMACHOS. 
 
 The spear has touched the bone ; 
 
 I know it by the pains. 
 
 [Exit Lamachos and his attendants. 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The pitcher was well filled, 
 
 and not a drop remains. 
 For victory ! hurrah ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 And so say we, hurrah ! 
 
 DIKAIOPOLIS. 
 
 The wine was neat, I did the feat 
 Without a pause : hurrah ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 You justly win ; go, take the skin 
 And our applause. Hurrah ! 
 Hurrah ! 
 
 [Exeunt omnes. 
 
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