Trygaeus: Thus, having placed three stones. Not skillfully?
1230
Thoracopoles: With what gaze, most foolish, will you ever look at me?
Trygaeus: having thrust his hand through the hatch.
Trygaeus: And this one too.
Thoracopoles: "Together with both of them, then?"
Trygaeus: By Zeus, I certainly do,
Trygaeus: so that I may not be caught stealing a hole in the ship.
Thoracopoles: Then, while sitting on a ten-pounder, will he urinate?
1235
Trygaeus: By Zeus, I'm absolutely right! For you would think
Trygaeus: that the rectum be given back for a thousand drachmas?
Thoracopolis: Go now, stranger, and bring the money.
Trygaeus: but, good sir
Trygaeus: Press down the trough. Carry it off, I shall not buy it.
Trumpet-maker: But what shall I do with this trumpet,
1240
Trumpet-maker: Which one did I buy for sixty drachmas, I wonder?
Trygaeus: pour lead into this hollow.
Trygaeus: then, having put a rod from above and a mat underneath,
Trygaeus: There will be knucklebones for you to gamble with.
Trumpet-Maker: Alas, you are laughing at me.
1245
Trygaeus: But I will give another piece of advice.
Trygaeus: pour the lead, as I said,
Trygaeus: and here it is hung up with ropes
Trygaeus: place the scales on top, and it will happen to you as well.
Trygaeus: to set the figs in the field for the slaves.
Cranemaker: O filthy demon, how you have destroyed me!
1250
Cranemaker: whenever I gave back a mina in exchange for these things once;
Crane-maker: And now what shall I do? For who will buy it?
Trygaeus: I sell them, walking to the Egyptians;
Trygaeus: For there are tools for measuring the rope.
Doryxos: Alas, O jar-makers, how wretchedly we have fared.
1255
Trygaeus: This one has suffered nothing.
Doryxus: But what
Doryxos: Is there still anything for which someone will use the helmets?
Trygaeus: if he learns to make such traps,
Trygaeus: He will give back more than he does now.
Crane-Poet: Let us go, O spear-bearer.
1260
Trygaeus: By no means, since
Trygaeus: By this one, I shall buy these spears.
Doryxus: How much are you actually giving?
Trygaeus: if they were cut apart from one another,
Trygaeus: I would take a hundred of them for the sake of a drachma.
Doryxus: We are being insulted. Let us get out of the way, you wretches.
Trygaeus: By Zeus, how the children are already coming out.
1265
Trygaeus: Let the urine of the courtesans be poured here, so that
Trygaeus: What will be sung, it seems to me that I will have sung beforehand.
Trygaeus: but whatever you think of singing, child,
Trygaeus: Here, stand by me as before, and wait here.
Peace. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.