Second Semi-Chorus
Oh! at that time I was terrible, I feared nothing; forth on my galleys I went in search of my foe and subjected him.
1095
Then we never thought of rounding fine phrases, we never dreamt of calumny; it was who should prove the strongest rower. And thus we took many a town from the Medes, and
1100
'tis to us that
Athens
owes the tributes that our young men thieve to-day.
Wasps. Aristophanes. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.. New York. 1938.
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