STREPSIADES By Zeus! That's no lie! Soon I shall be nothing but wheat-flour, if you powder me in t...
2011-12-11
Ha!... but just you be off elsewhere to roast younger folk than us with your lightning. CHORUS (si...
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...
Good! and good luck to you. PITHETAERUS We accept the omen. EPOPS Come in here. PITHETAERUS Ve...
Hah! hah! Hail! Lamachippus! LAMACHUS Woe is me! DICAEOPOLIS (to the one girl) Why do you kiss m...
Oh! capital! truly that's a brilliant thought! EUELPIDES Is it in Nephelococcygia that all the wea...
410 BC THE BIRDS by Aristophanes anonymous translator CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY EUELPIDES PITHETA...
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 ...
I know someone who will come and seat himself at the foot of the tribunal, holding a supplicant's b...
TRYGAEUS Let us appear not to see him. SERVANT Very well. HIEROCLES (approaching) What sacrific...
POVERTY You shall suffer the same if you are beaten! CHREMYLUS Do you think twenty deaths a suffi...