Very well then, but reflect, that these are mysteries. Lately, a flea bit Chaerephon on the brow an...
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PITHETAERUS Birds! the sacrifice is propitious. But I see no messenger coming from the wall to tel...
STREPSIADES By Zeus! That's no lie! Soon I shall be nothing but wheat-flour, if you powder me in t...
Ha!... but just you be off elsewhere to roast younger folk than us with your lightning. CHORUS (si...
STREPSIADES Yes, yes, by Apollo I suffer, I get colic, then the stew sets to rumbling like thunder...
trade to denounce strangers? INFORMER Well, and why not? I don't know how to dig. PITHETAERUS Bu...
HERACLES Mortal! we who greet you are three gods. PITHETAERUS Wait a bit till I have prepared my ...
flame, that Zeus has hitherto shot forth! Oh, ye rolling thunders, that bring down the rain! 'Tis b...
420 BC THE CLOUDS by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY STREPSIADES PHID...
EUELPIDES It's not you we are jeering at. EPOPS At what, then? EUELPIDES Why, it's your beak th...
EUELPIDES Epops is going to sing again. EPOPS (in the thicket, singing) Epopopoi popoi popopopoi ...
PITHETAERUS And how do you think to escape them? EUELPIDES I don't know at all. PITHETAERUS Com...
And I am going to denounce you too. BOEOTIAN What harm have I done you? NICARCHUS I will say it ...
Formerly also the kite was ruler and king over the Greeks. LEADER OF THE CHORUS The Greeks? PITHE...
Take back, take back your viands; for a thousand drachmae I would not give a drop of peace. (A youn...