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The Clouds-Part4_Aristophanes(450-385BC)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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STREPSIADES

Very easily, have no fear.



SOCRATES

Thus, when I throw forth some philosophical thought anent things



celestial., you will seize it in its very flight?

STREPSIADES



Then I am to snap up wisdom much as a dog snaps up a morsel?

SOCRATES (aside)



Oh! the ignoramus! the barbarian! (to STREPSIADES) I greatly fear,

old man, it will be necessary for me to have recourse to blows. Now,



let me hear what you do when you are beaten.

STREPSIADES



I receive the blow, then wait a moment, take my witnesses and

finally summon my assailant at law.



SOCRATES

Come, take off your cloak.



STREPSIADES

Have I robbed you of anything?



SOCRATES

No. but the usual thing is to enter the school without your cloak.



STREPSIADES

But I have not come here to look for stolen goods.



SOCRATES

Off with it, fool!



STREPSIADES (He obeys.)

Tell me, if I prove thoroughly attentive and learn with zeal,



which O; your disciples shall I resemble, do you think?

SOCRATES



You will be the image of Chaerephon.

STREPSIADES



Ah! unhappy me! Shall I then be only half alive?

SOCRATES



A truce to this chatter! follow me and no more of it.

STREPSIADES



First give me a honey-cake, for to descend down there sets me

all a-tremble; it looks like the cave of Trophonius.



SOCRATES

But get in with you! What reason have you for thus dallying at the



door?

(They go into the Thoughtery.)



LEADER OF THE CHORUS

Good luck! you have courage; may you succeed, you, who, though



already so advanced in years, wish to instruct your mind with new

studies and practise it in wisdom! (The CHORUS turns and faces the



Audience.) Spectators! By Bacchus, whose servant I am, I will

frankly tell you the truth. May I secure both victory and renown as



certainly as I hold you for adept critics and as I regard this

comedy as my best. I wished to give you the first view of a work,



which had cost me much trouble, but which I withdrew, unjustly

beaten by unskilful rivals. It is you, oh, enlightened public, for



whom I have prepared my piece, that I reproach with this. Nevertheless

I shall never willingly cease to seek the approval of the



discerning. I have not forgotten the day, when men, whom one is

happy to have for an audience, received my Virtuous Young Man and my



Paederast with so much favour in this very place. Then as yet

virgin, my Muse had not attained the age for maternity; she had to



expose her first-born for another to adopt, and it has since grown

up under your generouspatronage. Ever since you have as good as sworn



me your faithfulalliance. Thus, like the Electra of the poets, my

comedy has come to seek you to-day, hoping again to encounter such



enlightened spectators. As far away as she can discern her Orestes,

she will be able to recognize him by his curly head. And note her



modest demeanour! She has not sewn on a piece of hanging leather,

thick and reddened at the end, to cause laughter among the children;



she does not rail at the bald, neither does she dance the cordax; no

old man is seen, who, while uttering his lines, batters his questioner



with a stick to make his poor jests pass muster. She does not rush

upon the scene carrying a torch and screaming, 'Iou! Iou!' No, she



relies upon herself and her verses....My value is so well known,

that I take no further pride in it. I do not seek to deceive you, by



reproducing the same subjects two or three times; I always invent

fresh themes to present before you, themes that have no relation to



each other and that are all clever. I attacked Cleon to his face and

when he was all-powerful; but he has fallen, and now I have no



desire to kick him when he is down. My rivals, on the contrary, now




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