Chorus: looking for us in many places, you will find us in everything.
Chorus: most like wasps in their habits and way of life.
Chorus: for first of all no animal of ours has been provoked
Chorus: He is rather sharp-tempered, but not more difficult;
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Chorus: Then we devise all the rest, the same things, for the wasps.
Chorus: For, having been gathered according to the festivals, just as on the Anthesteria,
Chorus: some of us are under the one who rules, others by the Eleven,
Chorus: some are judging in the singing room, others are near the small walls.
Chorus: having been beaten closely, nodding towards the ground, barely
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Chorus: just as the worms move in the honeycombs.
Chorus: And in the rest of our manner of life we are most well provided.
Chorus: for we will sting the man and will find a living.
Chorus: but for bees are settled among us.
Chorus: not having a sting, those who remain of our tax
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Chorus: they eat the trouble, not suffering.
Chorus: This is the most painful thing for us, if someone, while not having served in the army,
Chorus: He will have drained off our reward, on account of this country.
Chorus: taking neither an oar nor a spear nor a blister.
Chorus: But it seems to me, for the rest of the citizens, to be short.
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Chorus: Whoever does not have the sting, must not bring a triobolus.
Wasps. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.