Chorus: The things we are accustomed to with the horses, we wish to praise.
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Chorus: They are worthy indeed to be praised; for they have indeed many tricks.
Chorus: they have borne us along with them, both the assaults and the battles.
Chorus: But we do not admire it too much in their case,
Chorus: as when I leaped manfully into the horse market,
Chorus: having bought jugs, but they also garlic and onions;
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Chorus: then, taking the oars like us mortals
Chorus: having thrown them in, they gushed forth, hip-pai, who will throw them in?
Chorus: It must be seized. What are we doing? Are you not driving, you wretched creature?
Chorus: He leaped off to Corinth; and then the younger men
Chorus: with the shields they dug up beds and moved the mats;
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Chorus: For we ate the prawns instead of any Medean sauce,
Chorus: If someone would come out from the door and hunt from the depths;
Chorus: So Theoros said, 'a Corinthian crab,'
Chorus: Terrible, by Poseidon, if I shall not be able to dive into the depths.
Chorus: They will not escape the Knights, neither on land nor in the sea.
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Knights. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.