Xanthias: O blessed tortoises, your skin!
Xanthias: and thrice blessed are the tiles on the side of the roof.
Xanthias: how well you have dug, and like a mole!
Xanthias: with a pot to cover his back so that it might shield the blows.
1295
Xanthias: As for me, I am ruined from being bitten by a wasp.
Chorus: What is it, boy? For he is a boy, even if he is an old man,
Chorus: it is right to call [him] a man whoever receives blows.
Xanthias: For the old man was not the most reckless evil, then.
Xanthias: 'And the most drunken of those who live together?'
1300
Xanthias: And yet Hippias, Antiphon, Lycon were present.
Xanthias: Lysistratos, Thuphrastos, those around Phrynichos.
Xanthias: Of all these, he was by far the most insolent.
Xanthias: for as soon as he was filled with many good things,
Xanthias: he drove, he skipped, he farted, he mocked.
1305
Xanthias: just like a roasted chickpea that is well-fed.
Xanthias: and he beat me like a young man, boy, for the sake of fine deeds.
Xanthias: and then, just as Lysistratos hit him, he saw him.
Xanthias: You look like a young vintage, old man.
Xanthias: to the crier who has fled into the straw.
1310
Xanthias: And the one who shouted back has taken him off to the brothel.
Xanthias: to the one who has cast off the fleas of the cloak,
Xanthias: For Sthenelos, who has been fitted out with all the gear.
Xanthias: But they clapped their hands, except Thuphrastus alone;
Xanthias: But this fellow was acting like a real smart aleck.
1315
Xanthias: The old man asked Thrasyllus, 'Tell me,'
Xanthias: you pretend to be well-groomed and dandy.
Xanthias: 'A comic poet-buggers always about the man who is doing well?'
Xanthias: 'He thus insulted them in detail,'
Xanthias: mocking coarsely and also speaking words
1320
Xanthias: utterly foolish, indeed not in accordance with the matter.
Xanthias: Then, since he was drunk, he is going home.
Xanthias: beating everyone, whoever he meets.
Xanthias: Here he comes, and indeed he is stumbling.
Xanthias: But I will get out of the way before I receive blows.
1325
