Sausage-seller: he says that he will catch the basins in the bathhouse.
1060
Demus: But will I be unwashed today?
Sausage-seller: for he has snatched our mortars from us.
Sausage-Seller: But this man, you see, is concerned about the navy.
Sausage-seller: The oracle, which you must pay very close attention to.
Demos: Pay attention; you read, to my sailors.
1065
Demos: in order that the wage may first be paid.
Sausage-seller: Aigeidēs, beware of the fox, lest it trap you,
Sausage-seller: a swift-footed, deceitful knave, skilled in many tricks.
Sausage-Seller: Do you know what this is?
Demos: Philostratos the fox.
Sausage-seller: Not this, he says, but a ship each time.
1070
Ball-seller: This man is asking for swift money-counters.
Sausage-seller: Apollo forbids him from giving you these.
Demus: How then is a trireme a fox?
Sausage-Seller: "How so?"
Sausage-seller: because the trireme is fast and the dog is fast.
Demus: How then was the fox added to the dog?
1075
Sausage-seller: He has beaten the soldiers with foxes,
Sausage-Seller: Because they eat grapes in the fields.
Demos: Where is the pay for these foxes?
Sausage-seller: I will provide it, and this one in three days.
Sausage-seller: But listen to this one more, whom he told you to choose.
1080
Sausage-seller: Let the son of Leto, from Cyllene, not ensnare you.
Sausage-seller: He made this hand of his.
Ball-seller: 'Throw in correctly a lame one, as she says, a lame one.'
Cleon: He does not state correctly; for Phoebus [built] the Cyllene [temple].
Cleon: He has correctly guessed the meaning of Diopithes' [statement].
1085
Cleon: But I have an oracle about you, winged one.
Cleon: You rule as an eagle, just as you were born, and over all the earth.
Sausage-seller: Indeed, it is so for me too; and of the land and of the red sea too,
Sausage-seller: And what will you decide in Ecbatana, licking up the drippings?
Cleon: But I saw a dream, and the goddess herself did not seem so to me.
1090
Cleon: to pour the wealth and health of the people onto a bucket.
Sausage-Seller: By Zeus, and so did I; and that very goddess did not seem right to me either.
Sausage-seller: to come from the city and an owl to perch upon her;
Ball-seller: then pour down on the head with an oil-flask.
Garlic-seller: ambrosia against you, but against this man garlic-leek.
1095
Demos: Was there really no one wiser than Glanis?
Demus: And now I entrust myself to you, this man.
Demos: to lead the old men about and to educate them again.
Cleon: Not yet, I pray you, but wait, as I say.
1100
Cleon: I will provide you with barley and a living day by day.
Demos: I cannot endure listening to barley; often
Demus: I was deceived both by you and by Thucanon.
Cleon: But I will already procure some barley-meal for you prepared.
Sausage-seller: But I have mixed cakes.
1105
Sausage-Seller: And roasted wheat too; nothing else, unless you eat it.
Demos: Do now whatever you may do; for I,
Demos: whichever of you two now does me more good,
Demos: To this man I shall hand over the reins of the dense crowd.
Cleon: I should run inside first.
1110
Sausage-Seller: Not then, but I.
