Probulus: Has the indulgence of the women shone forth?
Probulus: and the drumming, and the dense Sabazian revellers,
Probulus: And this Adoniazusa up on the roof,
Probulus: "Where, when I was there, did I hear it in the assembly?"
390
Probulus: 'But Demosthenus used to say, "Not in season..."
Proboulos: 'to sail to Sicily, but the woman dancing'
Probulus: "Alas, he speaks of Adonis, but Demosthenes"
Probulus: He said that they should enroll hoplites from the Zacynthians;
Probulus: But the woman, who has drunk up, is on the roof.
395
Probulus: 'He says to strike Adonis.' But he was resisting.
Proboulos: Cholozyges is an enemy of the gods and a polluted man.
Probulus: Such unbridled songs come from them.
Chorus of old men: But what if you were to learn about the outrage of these men as well?
Chorus of Old Men: They have outraged everything else and also from the dice-boxes.
400
Chorus of old men: Wash us, so that we may be amazed.
Chorus of Old Men: It is possible to shake, as if giving birth.
Probulus: By Poseidon the salt one, certainly so.
Probulus: for when we ourselves are conspiring
Probulus: Let us teach the women to indulge in luxury,
405
Probulus: Such counsels grow from them.
Probulus: those whom we say among the craftsmen are of such a sort:
Probulus: O goldsmith, the mold that you have prepared,
Probulus: While my wife was dancing in the evening,
Probulus: The acorn has fallen out of the hole.
410
Probulus: For me, then, I must sail to Salamis.
Probulus: But if you have leisure, with every art towards evening
Probulus: Having come, fit that acorn to her.
Probulus: But another man says this to the cobbler.
Probolus: a youth and a penis, not a boy-love.
415
Proboulos: O leather-stripper of my wife's foot!
Probulus: The ring pinches the yoke.
Probulus: You are soft in that respect. Therefore, you [will be] the one of the midday [session].
Proboulos: Come and untie it, so that it may be looser.
Probulus: Such things have met with such affairs,
420
Probulus: when I was a proboulos, having devised how
Probulus: there will be oars, and now there is need of silver,
Probulus: I have been shut out by the women at the gates.
Probulus: But nothing is accomplished by standing. Come, bring the levers,
Probulus: So that I may get them free of this outrage.
425
Probulus: Why are you staring, wretched man? Where are you looking now,
Proboulos: doing nothing except watching a brothel?
Probulus: Did we not wedge the bars under the gates?
Probulus: Will you pry it out from here? But from here I will.
Probulus: I will grind it all together.
430
Lysistrata: For I am coming out of my own free will. What is the need of levers?
Lysistrata: for we need not so much a lever as intelligence and good sense.
Proboulos: True, you filthy woman? Where is the archer?
Probulus: Bind her hands behind her back.
Lysistrata: If, by Artemis, the hand for me
435
Lysistrata: He will be driven out publicly, being in a state of utter confusion, and will weep.
Probulus: Did you fear this man? He will not seize me by the middle.
Proboulos: And you, after this, will you be bound?
Woman A: If indeed, by the Pandrosion, only here
Woman A: 'You will put your hand on it, and you will pour it out while stepping.'
440
Probulus: Look, he is pouring it over! Where is another archer?
Proboulos: Bind her first, since she also talks.
