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Read Ebook: Lysistrata by Aristophanes BCE BCE Lindsay Norman Illustrator Lindsay Jack Translator
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What could be nobler!
LYSISTRATA
Wipe out the Boeotians--
CALONICE
Not utterly. Have mercy on the eels!
LYSISTRATA
But with regard to Athens, note I'm careful Not to say any of these nasty things; Still, thought is free.... But if the women join us From Peloponnesus and Boeotia, then Hand in hand we'll rescue Greece.
CALONICE
How could we do Such a big wise deed? We women who dwell Quietly adorning ourselves in a back-room With gowns of lucid gold and gawdy toilets Of stately silk and dainty little slippers....
LYSISTRATA
These are the very armaments of the rescue. These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh, Slippers, cosmetics dusting beauty, and robes With rippling creases of light.
CALONICE
Yes, but how?
LYSISTRATA
No man will lift a lance against another--
CALONICE
I'll run to have my tunic dyed crocus.
LYSISTRATA
Or take a shield--
CALONICE
I'll get a stately gown.
LYSISTRATA
Or unscabbard a sword--
CALONICE
Let me buy a pair of slipper.
LYSISTRATA
Now, tell me, are the women right to lag?
CALONICE
They should have turned birds, they should have grown wings and flown.
LYSISTRATA
My friend, you'll see that they are true Athenians: Always too late. Why, there's not a woman From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis.
CALONICE
I know for certain they awoke at dawn, And got their husbands up if not their boat sails.
LYSISTRATA
And I'd have staked my life the Acharnian dames Would be here first, yet they haven't come either!
CALONICE
Well anyhow there is Theagenes' wife We can expect--she consulted Hecate. But look, here are some at last, and more behind them. See ... where are they from?
CALONICE
From Anagyra they come.
LYSISTRATA
Yes, they generally manage to come first.
MYRRHINE
Are we late, Lysistrata? ... What is that? Nothing to say?
LYSISTRATA
I've not much to say for you, Myrrhine, dawdling on so vast an affair.
MYRRHINE
I couldn't find my girdle in the dark. But if the affair's so wonderful, tell us, what is it?
LYSISTRATA
No, let us stay a little longer till The Peloponnesian girls and the girls of Bocotia Are here to listen.
MYRRHINE
That's the best advice. Ah, there comes Lampito.
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