Chorus: This fellow is winged for the dinner too, and indeed he thinks very highly of himself,
Chorus: and so these wings have cast off a sample of life before the doors.
Chorus: O Beauty of Cyprus and Graces, my dear friends, and Concord who shares my path,
Chorus: Since you have a beautiful face, did you really remain hidden?
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Chorus: How could some Eros, having taken me and you, gather us together,
Chorus: just like the painted one holding a crown of flowers.
Chorus: Or perhaps you have come to think of me as a very old woman?
Chorus: But I think that, having seized you, I should still be able to strike you three more times;
Chorus: First of all, we would lead a long vine-dance,
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Chorus: and then beside this [place] new calves of figs,
Chorus: and the third of the day's dance, this old man,
Chorus: and all over the field they will drive the oxen in a circle,
Chorus: So that you and I may be anointed by them on the new moons.
Acharnians. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.