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    Aristophanes, Peace (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.)

    Trygaeus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.)
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    Hierocles
    As before.

    What! you are so ignorant you don't understand the will of the gods [1065] and you make a treaty, you, who are men, with apes, who are full of malice?

    Trygaeus

    Ha, ha, ha!

    Hierocles

    What are you laughing at?

    Trygaeus

    Ha, ha! your apes amuse me!

    Hierocles
    resuming the oracular manner.

    You simple pigeons, you trust yourselves to foxes, who are all craft, both in mind and heart.

    Trygaeus

    Oh, you trouble-maker! may your lungs get as hot as this meat!

    Hierocles

    [1070] Nay, nay! if only the Nymphs had not fooled Bacis, and Bacis mortal men; and if the Nymphs had not tricked Bacis a second time ...

    Trygaeus
    mocking his manner.

    May the plague seize you, if you don't stop Bacizing!

    Hierocles

    . . . it would not have been written in the book of Fate that the bonds of Peace must be broken; but first ...

    Trygaeus

    The meat must be dusted with salt.

    Hierocles

    [1075]  . . . it does not please the blessed gods that we should stop the War until the wolf uniteth with the sheep.

    A kind of oracle-match now ensues.
    Trygaeus

    How, you cursed animal, could the wolf ever unite with the sheep?

    Hierocles

    As long as the wood-bug gives off a fetid odor, when it flies; as long as the noisy bitch is forced by nature to litter blind pups, so long shall peace be forbidden.

    Trygaeus

    [1080] Then what should be done? Not to stop War would be to leave it to the decision of chance which of the two people should suffer the most, whereas by uniting under a treaty, we share the empire of Greece.

    Hierocles

    You will never make the crab walk straight.

    Trygaeus

    You shall no longer be fed at the Prytaneum; [1085] when the war is over oracles are not wanted.

    Hierocles

    You will never smooth the rough spikes of the hedgehog.

    Trygaeus

    Will you never stop fooling the Athenians?

    Hierocles

    What oracle ordered you to burn these joints of mutton in honor of the gods?

    Trygaeus

    This grand oracle of Homer's: [1090] “Thus vanished the dark war-clouds and we offered a sacrifice to new-born Peace. When the flame had consumed the thighs of the victim and its inwards had appeased our hunger, we poured out the libations of wine.” 'Twas I who arranged the sacred rites, but none offered the shining cup to the diviner.

    Hierocles

    [1095] I care little for that. 'Tis not the Sibyl who spoke it.

    Trygaeus

    Wise Homer has also said: “He who delights in the horrors of civil war has neither country nor laws nor home.” What noble words!

    Hierocles

    Beware lest the [1100] kite turn your brain and rob ...

    Trygaeus
    to the Servant who has returned with the libations.

    Look out, slave! This oracle threatens our meat. Quick, pour the libation, and give me some of the inwards.

    Hierocles

    I too will help myself to a bit, if you like.

    Trygaeus

    The libation! the libation!


    There are a total of 2 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1081-1217]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Aristophanes. Peace. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
    OCLC: 32280428


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