Chorus
Singing.
At Phanae, near the
1695
Clepsydra, there dwells a people who have neither faith nor law, the Englottogastors, who reap, sow, pluck the vines and the figs with their tongues;
1700
they belong to a barbaric race, and among them the Philippi and the Gorgiases are to be found; 'tis these Englottogastorian Philippi who introduced the custom all over
Attica
1705
of cutting out the tongue separately at sacrifices.
At Phanae, near the
1695
Clepsydra, there dwells a people who have neither faith nor law, the Englottogastors, who reap, sow, pluck the vines and the figs with their tongues;
1700
they belong to a barbaric race, and among them the Philippi and the Gorgiases are to be found; 'tis these Englottogastorian Philippi who introduced the custom all over
Attica
1705
of cutting out the tongue separately at sacrifices.
Birds. Aristophanes. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.. New York. 1938.
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