Chorus: They say that the triremes have come together among themselves for a discussion,
1300
Chorus: And utter one of them which was older;
Chorus: And yet you do not inquire about these things, O maidens, those in the city?
Chorus: They say that one of us is being asked for a hundred [drachmas] to go to Carthage.
Chorus: an evil citizen, a sharp fellow Hyperbolus;
Chorus: and for the reputations, this is terrible and unbearable,
1305
Chorus: and someone to say which of the men had not come closer.
Chorus: They will be far from me, certainly not by me shall they rule ever, but if you wish me to,...
Chorus: Being rotten by the teredo here, I shall grow old in this place.
Chorus: Nor is Nauphantes indeed of the Nausones, by the gods,
Chorus: If indeed I too was grown from a pine and from woods.
1310
Chorus: If these things please the Athenians, I think I ought to sit down.
Chorus: To sail to the Theseion, or upon the solemn gods.
Chorus: For it is not our generals who bore the city.
Chorus: But let him go off alone to the crows, if he wishes,
Chorus: having hauled down the barges, in which he used to sell the lamps.
1315
Knights. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.