Philocleon: Look. Give me the shape, and examine me in what way
1170
Philocleon: I most resemble the walk of the rich.
Bdelycleon: To whom? To Dorthion, dressed in garlic.
Philokleon: Yes, indeed, I am eager to sodomize you.
Bdelucléon: Come now, you will learn to speak solemn speeches.
Bdelycleon: "Of men present, learned and skilled?"
1175
Bdelycleon: What, pray, would you say?
Philocleon: First, just as Lamis, having been captured, farted,
Philocleon: And then, just as Cardopion [did] his mother.
Bdelucleon: not stories to me, but of human affairs,
Bdelucleon: The kind of people we say are the most domestic.
1180
Philocleon: So I know, at any rate, everything very much about the household.
Philocleon: That one was a mouse and a cat, so to speak.
Bdelycleon: O scoundrel and uneducated one, Theogenes said
Bdelycleon: reviling the dung-seller even with these things,
Bdelycleon: Are you about to speak of mice and weasels among men?
1185
Philokleon: What sort of people, then, should we say?
Bdelucleon: "magnificent,"
Bdelycleon: as you were accustomed to conspire with Androcles and Cleisthenes.
Philocleon: But I have never before seen anything like this.
Philocleon: except to Paros, and that too carrying only two obols.
Bdelycles: but nevertheless you must say how he immediately fought
1190
Bdelycleon: 'The pankration of Euphion is going well for Askondas.'
Bdelycleon: already being old and grey, and having indeed
Bdelycleon: a very deep side, and arms, and a loin, and
Bdelucléon: "The finest breastplate."
Philocleon: Stop, stop, you are saying nothing.
Philocleon: How could he wrestle the pancratium while wearing a breastplate?
1195
Bdelycleon: Thus do the wise tell their stories.
Bdelycleon: But tell me something else: among foreign men
Bdelycleon: Drinking your own, what do you think you would say?
Bdelycleon: 'A very manly deed in one's youth?'
Philocleon: That one, that one, the most courageous of mine,
1200
Philocleon: When I borrowed Ergasias' jars.
Bdelycleon: You will destroy me. What stakes? But as if [I were] a boar.
Bdelycleon: Did you once pursue a thigh, or a torch?
Bdelycleon: You ran off, finding something very youthful.
Philocleon: Well, then, I know at least the most youthful part;
1205
Philokleon: when the runner Phayllos was yet a bull-calf
Philocleon: I seized, while pursuing, the vote for two accusations.
Bdelycleon: Ah! But come here and reclining, learn more.
Bdelucleon: he is sociable and a good companion.
Philocleon: Then how shall I recline? Tell me when you have finished.
1210
Bdelycles: 'Respectably.'
Philocleon: Do you order me to lie down in this way?
Bdelycleon: extend your knees and [do it] athletically.
Bdelycleon: wet yourself on the couches.
Bdelucleon: Then praise something of the bronze castings,
Bdelycleon: Look at the roof, wonder at the reed of the court!
1215
Bdelycleon: Water on the hand! Bring the tables!
Bdelycleon: Let us dine. Let us recline. We are already pouring the libation.
Philocleon: By the gods, let us have a dream meal?
Bdelyclēon: the aulos-player blew into the instrument; and the drinking companions
Bdelucleon: There are Theorus, Aeschines, Phanus, and Cleon.
1220
Bdelycleon: Another stranger, on top of Acestor's head.
Bdelycleon: sitting with them, let him show the drinking songs well.
Philocleon: Really? As no one from the Diakria will accept [it].
