Dikaiopolis: These are the boundaries of my market.
Dikaiopolis: Let him buy here for all the Peloponnesians.
720
Dicaeopolis: It is permitted also for the Megarians and for the Boeotians,
Dicaeopolis: on condition that he sells to me, but not to Lamachus.
Dikaiopolis: But I appoint the market officials of the agora.
Dikaiopolis: three of the straps, these, which were drawn by lot, from Lepreon.
Dikaiopolis: Let no slanderer enter here.
725
Dikaiopolis: nor any other man who is a Phasian.
Dikaiopolis: But I [will go] to the pillar by which I paid the tax.
Dicaeopolis: Move me, so that I may set up a public one in the marketplace.
Megarian: Hail to the Megarians, a market in Athens, friendly.
Megarian: I longed for a friend, just as [I longed] for my mother.
730
Megarian: But you wretched wench, of a miserable father,
Megarian: Go up to the big heap, if you can find it.
Megarian: listen, now, keep away your belly from me;
Megarian: Whether must one be sold or starve miserably?
Megarian: I myself indeed say it. Who is so senseless?
Megarian: 'Who would you buy a public mistress for?'
Megarian: But for I have some Megarian device,
Megarian: for I say that you have prepared a pig to carry.
Megarian: Put these weapons of the piglets around you.
740
Megarian: So that it may seem that we are born of a good mother;
Megarian: By Hermes, if you have indeed come home.
Megarian: You will try in vain, you will be badly starved.
Megarian: But sit down here, and also take these snouts,
Megarian: And then, this way, you will step into the sack.
745
Megarian: so that you may grunt and snore
Megarian: And you will make the voice of the mystic piglets.
Megarian: But I will knock Dikaiopolis's head with a nutcracker.
Megarian: Dikaiopolis, are you going to buy piglets?
