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Mnesilochus
aside

Wanting to rape indeed! you mean wanting to be raped. Ah! great gods! a fine excuse truly!

Euripides

Well then, do you agree?

Agathon

Don't count upon it.

Euripides

Oh! I am unfortunate indeed! I am undone!

Mnesilochus

Euripides, 210 my friend, my son-in-law, never despair.

Euripides

What can be done?

Mnesilochus

Send him to the devil and do with me as you like.

Euripides

Very well then, since you devote yourself to my safety, take off your cloak first.

Mnesilochus

There, it lies on the ground. 215 But what do you want to do with me?

Euripides

To shave off this beard of yours, and to remove all your other hair as well.

Mnesilochus

Do what you think fit; I yield myself entirely to you.

Euripides

Agathon, you always have razors about you; lend me one.

Agathon

Take it yourself, 220 there, out of that case.

Euripides

Thanks. To MnesilochusNow sit down and puff out your right cheek.

Mnesilochus
As he is being shaved

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Euripides

What are you shouting for? I'll cram a spit down your gullet, if you're not quiet.

Mnesilochus

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

He jumps up and starts running away.

Euripides

225 Where are you running to now?

Mnesilochus

To the temple of the Eumenides. No, by Demeter! I won't let myself be gashed like that.

Euripides

But you will get laughed at, with your face half-shaven like that.

Mnesilochus

Little care I.

Euripides

In the gods' names, don't leave me in the lurch. Come here.

Mnesilochus

Oh! by the gods!

He returns reluctantly and resumes his seat.

Euripides

230 Keep still and hold up your head. Why do you want to fidget about like this?

Mnesilochus

Mm, mm.

Euripides

Well! why mm, mm? There! it's done and well done too!

Mnesilochus

Alas, I shall fight without armour.

Euripides

Don't worry; you look charming. Do you want to see yourself?

Mnesilochus

Yes, I do; hand the mirror here.

Euripides

235 Do you see yourself?

Mnesilochus

But this is not I, it is Cleisthenes!

Euripides

Stand up; I am now going to remove your hair. Bend down.

Mnesilochus

Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.

Euripides

Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and watch out for the tender end of your tool!

Mnesilochus

240 Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbor, or my perineum will be alight!

Euripides

Keep up your courage!

Mnesilochus

Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?

Euripides

Come, cease your whining, the worst 245 is over.

Mnesilochus

Oh! it's quite black, all burnt down there!

Euripides

Don't worry! Satyrus will wash it.

Mnesilochus

Woe to him who dares to wash me!

Euripides

Agathon, you refuse to devote yourself to helping me; 250 but at any rate lend me a tunic and a belt. You cannot say you have not got them.

Agathon

Take them and use them as you like; I consent.

Mnesilochus

What shall I take?

Agathon

First put on this long saffron-coloured robe.

Mnesilochus

By Aphrodite! what a sweet odor! how it smells of young male tools! 255 Hand it to me quickly. And the belt?

Euripides

Here it is.

Mnesilochus

Now some rings for my legs.

Euripides

You still want a hair-net and a head-dress.

Agathon

Here is my night cap.

Euripides

Ah! that's fine.

Mnesilochus

260 Does it suit me?

Euripides

It could not be better. And a short mantle?

Agathon

There's one on the couch; take it.

Euripides

He needs slippers.

Agathon

Here are mine.

Mnesilochus

Will they fit me?

Euripides
To Agathon

You don't like a loose fit.

Agathon

Try them on. Now that you have all you need, 265 let me be taken inside.

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Μνησίλοχος

ἰδού γε κλέπτειν· νὴ Δία βινεῖσθαι μὲν οὖν.

ἀτὰρ ἡ πρόφασίς γε νὴ Δίʼ εἰκότως ἔχει.

Εὐριπίδης

τί οὖν; ποιήσεις ταῦτα;

Ἀγάθων

μὴ δόκει γε σύ.

Εὐριπίδης

ὦ τρισκακοδαίμων ὡς ἀπόλωλʼ Εὐριπίδης.

Μνησίλοχος

ὦ φίλτατʼ ὦ κηδεστὰ μὴ σαυτὸν προδῷς.
210

Εὐριπίδης

πῶς οὖν ποιήσω δῆτα;

Μνησίλοχος

τοῦτον μὲν μακρὰ

κλάειν κέλευʼ, ἐμοὶ δʼ ὅ τι βούλει χρῶ λαβών.

Εὐριπίδης

ἄγε νυν ἐπειδὴ σαυτὸν ἐπιδίδως ἐμοί,

ἀπόδυθι τουτὶ θοἰμάτιον.

Μνησίλοχος

καὶ δὴ χαμαί.

ἀτὰρ τί μέλλεις δρᾶν μʼ;
215

Εὐριπίδης

ἀποξυρεῖν ταδί,

τὰ κάτω δʼ ἀφεύειν.

Μνησίλοχος

ἀλλὰ πρᾶττʼ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ.

ἢ μὴʼ πιδοῦνʼ ἐμαυτὸν ὤφελόν ποτε.

Εὐριπίδης

Ἀγάθων σὺ μέντοι ξυροφορεῖς ἑκάστοτε,

χρῆσόν τί νυν ἡμῖν ξυρόν.

Ἀγάθων

αὐτὸς λάμβανε

ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῆς ξυροδόκης.
220

Εὐριπίδης

γενναῖος εἶ.

κάθιξε· φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν.

Μνησίλοχος

ὤμοι.

Εὐριπίδης

τί κέκραγας; ἐμβαλῶ σοι πάτταλον,

ἢν μὴ σιωπᾷς.

Μνησίλοχος

ἀτταταῖ ἰατταταῖ.

Εὐριπίδης

οὗτος σὺ ποῖ θεῖς;

Μνησίλοχος

ἐς τὸ τῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν·

οὐ γὰρ μὰ τὴν Δήμητρά γʼ ἐνταυθοῖ μενῶ
225

τεμνόμενος.

Εὐριπίδης

οὔκουν καταγέλαστος δῆτʼ ἔσει

τὴν ἡμίκραιραν τὴν ἑτέραν ψιλὴν ἔχων;

Μνησίλοχος

ὀλίγον μέλει μοι.

Εὐριπίδης

μηδαμῶς πρὸς τῶν θεῶν

προδῷς με· χώρει δεῦρο.

Μνησίλοχος

κακοδαίμων ἐγώ.

Εὐριπίδης

ἔχʼ ἀτρέμα σαυτὸν κἀνάκυπτε· ποῖ στρέφει;
230

Μνησίλοχος

μυμῦ.

Εὐριπίδης

τί μύξεις; πάντα πεποίηται καλῶς.

Μνησίλοχος

οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, ψιλὸς αὖ στρατεύσομαι.

Εὐριπίδης

μὴ φροντίσῃ· ὡς εὐπρεπὴς φανεῖ πάνυ.

βούλει θεᾶσθαι σαυτόν;

Μνησίλοχος

εἰ δοκεῖ, φέρε.

Εὐριπίδης

ὁρᾷς σεαυτόν;
235

Μνησίλοχος

οὐ μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλὰ Κλεισθένη.

Εὐριπίδης

ἀνίστασʼ, ἵνʼ ἀφεύσω σε, κἀγκύψας ἔχε.

Μνησίλοχος

οἴμοι κακοδαίμων δελφάκιον γενήσομαι.

Εὐριπίδης

ἐνεγκάτω τις ἔνδοθεν δᾷδʼ ἢ λύχνον.

ἐπίκυπτε· τὴν κέρκον φυλάττου νυν ἄκραν.

Μνησίλοχος

ἐμοὶ μελήσει νὴ Δία, πλήν γʼ ὅτι κάομαι.
240

οἴμοι τάλας. ὕδωρ ὕδωρ ὦ γείτονες.

πρὶν ἀντιλαβέσθαι †πρωκτὸν τῆς φλογός.†

Εὐριπίδης

θάρρει.

Μνησίλοχος

τί θαρρῶ καταπεπυρπολημένος;

Εὐριπίδης

ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἔτʼ οἰδὲν πρᾶγμά σοι· τὰ πλεῖστα γὰρ

ἀποπεπόνηκας.
245

Μνησίλοχος

φῦ ἰοὺ τῆς ἀσβόλου.

αἰθὸς γεγένημαι πάντα τὰ περὶ τὴν τράμιν.

Εὐριπίδης

μὴ φροντίσῃς· ἕτερος γὰρ αὐτὰ σφογγιεῖ.

Μνησίλοχος

οἰμώξετἄρʼ εἴ τις τὸν ἐμὸν πρωκτὸν πλυνεῖ.

Εὐριπίδης

Ἀγάθων, ἐπειδὴ σαυτὸν ἐπιδοῦναι φθονεῖς,

ἀλλʼ ἱμάτιον γοῦν χρῆσον ἡμῖν τουτῳὶ
250

καὶ στρόφιον· οὐ γὰρ ταῦτά γʼ ὡς οὐκ ἔστʼ ἐρεῖς.

Ἀγάθων

λαμβάνετε καὶ χρῆσθʼ· οὐ φθονῶ.

Μνησίλοχος

τί οὖν λάβω;

Ἀγάθων

ὅ τι; τὸν κροκωτὸν πρῶτον ἐνδύου λαβών.

Μνησίλοχος

νὴ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ἡδύ γʼ ὄζει ποσθίου.

σύζωσον ἀνύσας. αἶρε νῦν στρόφιον.
255

Εὐριπίδης

ἰδού.

Μνησίλοχος

ἴθι νυν κατάστειλόν με τὰ περὶ τὼ σκέλει.

Εὐριπίδης

κεκρυφάλου δεῖ καὶ μίτρας.

Ἀγάθων

ἡδὶ μὲν οὖν

κεφαλὴ περίθετος, ἣν ἐγὼ νύκτωρ φορῶ.

Εὐριπίδης

νὴ τὸν Δίʼ ἀλλὰ κἀπιτηδεία πάνυ.

Μνησίλοχος

ἆρʼ ἁρμόσει μοι;
260

Εὐριπίδης

νὴ Δίʼ ἀλλʼ ἄριστʼ ἔχει.

φέρʼ ἔγκυκλον·

Ἀγάθων

τουτὶ λάβʼ ἀπὸ τῆς κλινίδος.

Εὐριπίδης

ὑποδημάτων δεῖ.

Ἀγάθων

τἀμὰ ταυτὶ λάμβανε.

Μνησίλοχος

ἆρʼ ἁρμόσει μοι;

Εὐριπίδης

χαλαρὰ γοῦν χαίρεις φορῶν.

Ἀγάθων

σὺ τοῦτο γίγνωσκʼ· ἀλλʼ ἔχεις γὰρ ὧν δέει,

εἴσω τις ὡς τάχιστά μʼ ἐσκυκλησάτω.
265

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Mnesilochus aside Wanting to rape indeed! you mean wanting to be raped. Ah! great gods! a fine excuse truly!

Euripides Well then, do you agree?

Agathon Don't count upon it.

Euripides Oh! I am unfortunate indeed! I am undone!

Mnesilochus Euripides, 210 my friend, my son-in-law, never despair.

Euripides What can be done?

Mnesilochus Send him to the devil and do with me as you like.

Euripides Very well then, since you devote yourself to my safety, take off your cloak first.

Mnesilochus There, it lies on the ground. 215 But what do you want to do with me?

Euripides To shave off this beard of yours, and to remove all your other hair as well.

Mnesilochus Do what you think fit; I yield myself entirely to you.

Euripides Agathon, you always have razors about you; lend me one.

Agathon Take it yourself, 220 there, out of that case.

Euripides Thanks. To MnesilochusNow sit down and puff out your right cheek.

Mnesilochus As he is being shaved Ow! Ow! Ow!

Euripides What are you shouting for? I'll cram a spit down your gullet, if you're not quiet.

Mnesilochus Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! He jumps up and starts running away.

Euripides 225 Where are you running to now?

Mnesilochus To the temple of the Eumenides. No, by Demeter! I won't let myself be gashed like that.

Euripides But you will get laughed at, with your face half-shaven like that.

Mnesilochus Little care I.

Euripides In the gods' names, don't leave me in the lurch. Come here.

Mnesilochus Oh! by the gods! He returns reluctantly and resumes his seat.

Euripides 230 Keep still and hold up your head. Why do you want to fidget about like this?

Mnesilochus Mm, mm.

Euripides Well! why mm, mm? There! it's done and well done too!

Mnesilochus Alas, I shall fight without armour.

Euripides Don't worry; you look charming. Do you want to see yourself?

Mnesilochus Yes, I do; hand the mirror here.

Euripides 235 Do you see yourself?

Mnesilochus But this is not I, it is Cleisthenes!

Euripides Stand up; I am now going to remove your hair. Bend down.

Mnesilochus Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.

Euripides Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and watch out for the tender end of your tool!

Mnesilochus 240 Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbor, or my perineum will be alight!

Euripides Keep up your courage!

Mnesilochus Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?

Euripides Come, cease your whining, the worst 245 is over.

Mnesilochus Oh! it's quite black, all burnt down there!

Euripides Don't worry! Satyrus will wash it.

Mnesilochus Woe to him who dares to wash me!

Euripides Agathon, you refuse to devote yourself to helping me; 250 but at any rate lend me a tunic and a belt. You cannot say you have not got them.

Agathon Take them and use them as you like; I consent.

Mnesilochus What shall I take?

Agathon First put on this long saffron-coloured robe.

Mnesilochus By Aphrodite! what a sweet odor! how it smells of young male tools! 255 Hand it to me quickly. And the belt?

Euripides Here it is.

Mnesilochus Now some rings for my legs.

Euripides You still want a hair-net and a head-dress.

Agathon Here is my night cap.

Euripides Ah! that's fine.

Mnesilochus 260 Does it suit me?

Euripides It could not be better. And a short mantle?

Agathon There's one on the couch; take it.

Euripides He needs slippers.

Agathon Here are mine.

Mnesilochus Will they fit me?

Euripides To Agathon You don't like a loose fit.

Agathon Try them on. Now that you have all you need, 265 let me be taken inside.

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Μνησίλοχος ἰδού γε κλέπτειν· νὴ Δία βινεῖσθαι μὲν οὖν. ἀτὰρ ἡ πρόφασίς γε νὴ Δίʼ εἰκότως ἔχει.

Εὐριπίδης τί οὖν; ποιήσεις ταῦτα;

Ἀγάθων μὴ δόκει γε σύ.

Εὐριπίδης ὦ τρισκακοδαίμων ὡς ἀπόλωλʼ Εὐριπίδης.

Μνησίλοχος ὦ φίλτατʼ ὦ κηδεστὰ μὴ σαυτὸν προδῷς. 210

Εὐριπίδης πῶς οὖν ποιήσω δῆτα;

Μνησίλοχος τοῦτον μὲν μακρὰ κλάειν κέλευʼ, ἐμοὶ δʼ ὅ τι βούλει χρῶ λαβών.

Εὐριπίδης ἄγε νυν ἐπειδὴ σαυτὸν ἐπιδίδως ἐμοί, ἀπόδυθι τουτὶ θοἰμάτιον.

Μνησίλοχος καὶ δὴ χαμαί. ἀτὰρ τί μέλλεις δρᾶν μʼ; 215

Εὐριπίδης ἀποξυρεῖν ταδί, τὰ κάτω δʼ ἀφεύειν.

Μνησίλοχος ἀλλὰ πρᾶττʼ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ. ἢ μὴʼ πιδοῦνʼ ἐμαυτὸν ὤφελόν ποτε.

Εὐριπίδης Ἀγάθων σὺ μέντοι ξυροφορεῖς ἑκάστοτε, χρῆσόν τί νυν ἡμῖν ξυρόν.

Ἀγάθων αὐτὸς λάμβανε ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῆς ξυροδόκης. 220

Εὐριπίδης γενναῖος εἶ. κάθιξε· φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν.

Μνησίλοχος ὤμοι.

Εὐριπίδης τί κέκραγας; ἐμβαλῶ σοι πάτταλον, ἢν μὴ σιωπᾷς.

Μνησίλοχος ἀτταταῖ ἰατταταῖ.

Εὐριπίδης οὗτος σὺ ποῖ θεῖς;

Mnesilochus
aside

Wanting to rape indeed! you mean wanting to be raped. Ah! great gods! a fine excuse truly!

Euripides

Well then, do you agree?

Agathon

Don't count upon it.

Euripides

Oh! I am unfortunate indeed! I am undone!

Mnesilochus

Euripides, 210 my friend, my son-in-law, never despair.

Euripides

What can be done?

Mnesilochus

Send him to the devil and do with me as you like.

Euripides

Very well then, since you devote yourself to my safety, take off your cloak first.

Mnesilochus

There, it lies on the ground. 215 But what do you want to do with me?

Euripides

To shave off this beard of yours, and to remove all your other hair as well.

Mnesilochus

Do what you think fit; I yield myself entirely to you.

Euripides

Agathon, you always have razors about you; lend me one.

Agathon

Take it yourself, 220 there, out of that case.

Euripides

Thanks. To MnesilochusNow sit down and puff out your right cheek.

Mnesilochus
As he is being shaved

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Euripides

What are you shouting for? I'll cram a spit down your gullet, if you're not quiet.

Mnesilochus

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

He jumps up and starts running away.

Euripides

225 Where are you running to now?

Mnesilochus

To the temple of the Eumenides. No, by Demeter! I won't let myself be gashed like that.

Euripides

But you will get laughed at, with your face half-shaven like that.

Mnesilochus

Little care I.

Euripides

In the gods' names, don't leave me in the lurch. Come here.

Mnesilochus

Oh! by the gods!

He returns reluctantly and resumes his seat.

Euripides

230 Keep still and hold up your head. Why do you want to fidget about like this?

Mnesilochus

Mm, mm.

Euripides

Well! why mm, mm? There! it's done and well done too!

Mnesilochus

Alas, I shall fight without armour.

Euripides

Don't worry; you look charming. Do you want to see yourself?

Mnesilochus

Yes, I do; hand the mirror here.

Euripides

235 Do you see yourself?

Mnesilochus

But this is not I, it is Cleisthenes!

Euripides

Stand up; I am now going to remove your hair. Bend down.

Mnesilochus

Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.

Euripides

Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and watch out for the tender end of your tool!

Mnesilochus

240 Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbor, or my perineum will be alight!

Euripides

Keep up your courage!

Mnesilochus

Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?

Euripides

Come, cease your whining, the worst 245 is over.

Mnesilochus

Oh! it's quite black, all burnt down there!

Euripides

Don't worry! Satyrus will wash it.

Mnesilochus

Woe to him who dares to wash me!

Euripides

Agathon, you refuse to devote yourself to helping me; 250 but at any rate lend me a tunic and a belt. You cannot say you have not got them.

Agathon

Take them and use them as you like; I consent.

Mnesilochus

What shall I take?

Agathon

First put on this long saffron-coloured robe.

Mnesilochus

By Aphrodite! what a sweet odor! how it smells of young male tools! 255 Hand it to me quickly. And the belt?

Euripides

Here it is.

Mnesilochus

Now some rings for my legs.

Euripides

You still want a hair-net and a head-dress.

Agathon

Here is my night cap.

Euripides

Ah! that's fine.

Mnesilochus

260 Does it suit me?

Euripides

It could not be better. And a short mantle?

Agathon

There's one on the couch; take it.

Euripides

He needs slippers.

Agathon

Here are mine.

Mnesilochus

Will they fit me?

Euripides
To Agathon

You don't like a loose fit.

Agathon

Try them on. Now that you have all you need, 265 let me be taken inside.

Μνησίλοχος

ἰδού γε κλέπτειν· νὴ Δία βινεῖσθαι μὲν οὖν.

ἀτὰρ ἡ πρόφασίς γε νὴ Δίʼ εἰκότως ἔχει.

Εὐριπίδης

τί οὖν; ποιήσεις ταῦτα;

Ἀγάθων

μὴ δόκει γε σύ.

Εὐριπίδης

ὦ τρισκακοδαίμων ὡς ἀπόλωλʼ Εὐριπίδης.

Μνησίλοχος

ὦ φίλτατʼ ὦ κηδεστὰ μὴ σαυτὸν προδῷς.
210

Εὐριπίδης

πῶς οὖν ποιήσω δῆτα;

Μνησίλοχος

τοῦτον μὲν μακρὰ

κλάειν κέλευʼ, ἐμοὶ δʼ ὅ τι βούλει χρῶ λαβών.

Εὐριπίδης

ἄγε νυν ἐπειδὴ σαυτὸν ἐπιδίδως ἐμοί,

ἀπόδυθι τουτὶ θοἰμάτιον.

Μνησίλοχος

καὶ δὴ χαμαί.

ἀτὰρ τί μέλλεις δρᾶν μʼ;
215

Εὐριπίδης

ἀποξυρεῖν ταδί,

τὰ κάτω δʼ ἀφεύειν.

Μνησίλοχος

ἀλλὰ πρᾶττʼ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ.

ἢ μὴʼ πιδοῦνʼ ἐμαυτὸν ὤφελόν ποτε.

Εὐριπίδης

Ἀγάθων σὺ μέντοι ξυροφορεῖς ἑκάστοτε,

χρῆσόν τί νυν ἡμῖν ξυρόν.

Ἀγάθων

αὐτὸς λάμβανε

ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῆς ξυροδόκης.
220

Εὐριπίδης

γενναῖος εἶ.

κάθιξε· φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν.

Μνησίλοχος

ὤμοι.

Εὐριπίδης

τί κέκραγας; ἐμβαλῶ σοι πάτταλον,

ἢν μὴ σιωπᾷς.

Μνησίλοχος

ἀτταταῖ ἰατταταῖ.

Εὐριπίδης

οὗτος σὺ ποῖ θεῖς;

Μνησίλοχος

ἐς τὸ τῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν·

οὐ γὰρ μὰ τὴν Δήμητρά γʼ ἐνταυθοῖ μενῶ
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τεμνόμενος.

Εὐριπίδης

οὔκουν καταγέλαστος δῆτʼ ἔσει

τὴν ἡμίκραιραν τὴν ἑτέραν ψιλὴν ἔχων;

Μνησίλοχος

ὀλίγον μέλει μοι.