Chorus: And indeed, here are ambassadors from Sparta dragging their sleds.
Chorus: Move aside, keeping your thighs like a pigsty around them.
Chorus: Men of Lacedaemon, first of all, hail me,
Chorus: Well then, tell us how you are and when you have come.
1075
Laconian: Why do we need to reveal many mysterious words?
Lacedaemonian: for it will be possible to see us as we are when we arrive.
Chorus: Alas! This calamity has been strung tight.
Chorus: it seems terribly, indeed worse, to have been heated up.
Spartan: Unspeakable. What could one say? But wherever she may go.
1080
Lacedaemonian: Let anyone who has come from anywhere bring us peace.
Chorus: Indeed, I see even these autochthons too.
Chorus: just as wrestlers, men, from their bellies
Chorus: and sending away a curtain, so that it appears
Chorus: the treatment of the disease is a hardship.
1085
Athenian: Who would tell me where Lysistrata is?
Athenian: as we are men, these men.
Chorus: This one agrees with that mother of this disease.
Chorus: Is it really a cramp that is taking you at daybreak?
Athenian: By Zeus, but by doing this we are wearing ourselves out.
1090
Athenian: so that if anyone does not reconcile us quickly,
Athenian: We will not fail to take vengeance on Cleisthenes.
Chorus: if you are prudent, you will receive blankets, so that
Chorus: Let no one of the Hermocopidae see you.
Athenian: By Zeus, you speak well indeed.
1095
Lacedaemonian: Yes, by my two gods
Lacedaemonian: Everywhere, indeed. Come, let us put on the costume.
Athenian: Oh, hail, Lacedaemonians! We have suffered shameful things.
Lacedaemonian: O Polycharidas, terrible things have befallen us again,
Lacedaemonian: If I see me, men, inflamed.
Athenian: Come on now, Lacedaemonians, now each must speak.
1100
Athenian: For what purpose are you here?
Lacedaemonian: about peace terms.
Lacedaemonian: ambassadors.
Athenian: Well said; and we too say this.
Athenian: Then why do we not call Lysistrata?
Athenian: She who alone would reconcile us?
Lacedaemonian: Yes, by the two goddesses, and if you take Lysistrata.
1105
Athenian: But we need not, it seems, call anyone;
Athenian: for this one, as she heard, is coming out thus.
Chorus: Hail, most courageous of all; you must now become
Chorus: terrible, cowardly, good, bad, serious, gentle, very experienced;
Chorus: as the first of the Greeks were seized by your lyre
1110
Chorus: they have granted you all the accusations, and jointly have permitted them.
