Chorus: and having prayed to the gods
1320
Chorus: to give wealth to the Greeks,
Chorus: to make many barley-cakes for us
Chorus: all alike and much wine,
Chorus: and to eat figs,
Chorus: and for us to give birth to women,
1325
Chorus: and all the good things we have lost
Chorus: let us collect again from the beginning,
Chorus: And cease the clamor of the iron.
Trygaeus: Come here, woman, to the field,
Trygaeus: And how, with me, beautiful?
1330
Trygaeus: He will be well laid out.
Trygaeus: Hymen, O Hymenaeus!
Half-Chorus B: O thrice happy, how justly!
Half-Chorus B: You now have the good things.
Half-Chorus A: Hymen, Hymen, oh.
1335
Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.
Half-Chorus A: What shall we do with her?
Half-Chorus B: What shall we do with her?
Half-Chorus A: We shall harvest her,
Half-Chorus B: We shall harvest it.
Half-Chorus A: But let us lift it up and carry it.
1340
Half-chorus A: the advance guards
Half-Chorus A: The bridegroom, men.
Half-chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus!
Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh,
Trygaeus: You will at least live well.
Trygaeus: not having affairs, but
1345
Trygaeus: fig-gatherers.
Half-Chorus B: Hymen, Hymen, O,
Half-Chorus A: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.
Half-Chorus B: the big one and the fat one.
Half-Chorus A: but the fig is sweet.
1350
Trygaeus: You will say, when you eat,
Trygaeus: may you drink a great deal of wine.
Chorus: Hymen, Hymen, oh,
Chorus: Hymen, Hymenaeus, oh.
Trygaeus: hail, hail, men,
1355
Trygaeus: And you have joined me as well.
Trygaeus: Eat pancakes.
Peace. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.