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Excerpt: ...not if you swallow a potion of penny-royal afterwards.326 But hasten to lead Theoria327 to the Senate; 'twas there she lodged before. TRYGAEUS. Oh! fortunate Senate! Thanks to Theoria, what soups you will swallow for the space of three days!328 how you will devour meats and cooked tripe! Come, farewell, friend Hermes! HERMES. And to you also, my dear sir, may you have much happiness, and don't forget me. TRYGAEUS. Come, beetle, home, home, and let us fly on a swift wing. HERMES. Oh! he is no longer here. TRYGAEUS. Where has he gone to then? HERMES. He is harnessed to the chariot of Zeus and bears the thunderbolts. TRYGAEUS. But where will the poor wretch get his food? HERMES. He will eat Ganymede's ambrosia. TRYGAEUS. Very well then, but how am I going to descend? HERMES. Oh! never fear, there is nothing simpler; place yourself beside the goddess. TRYGAEUS. Come, my pretty maidens, follow me quickly; there are plenty of folk awaiting you with standing tools. CHORUS. Farewell and good luck be yours! Let us begin by handing over all this gear to the care of our servants, for no place is less safe than a theatre; there is always a crowd of thieves prowling around it, seeking to find some mischief to do. Come, keep a good watch over all this. As for ourselves, let us explain to the spectators what we have in our minds, the purpose of our play. Undoubtedly the comic poet who mounted the stage to praise himself in the parabasis would deserve to be handed over to the sticks of the beadles. Nevertheless, oh Muse, if it be right to esteem the most honest and illustrious of our comic writers at his proper value, permit our poet to say that he thinks he has deserved a glorious renown. First of all, 'tis he who has compelled his rivals no longer to scoff at rags or to war with lice; and as for those Heracles, always chewing and ever hungry, those poltroons and cheats who allow themselves to be beaten at will, he was the first to cover them with ridicule and to...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153701068
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153701065
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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