Euripides: Woman, what did you say? Turn your eyes that shine in the light.
Mnesilochus: I am ashamed of you, your jaw having been abused.
Euripides: What is this? What silence has seized me.
Euripides: O gods, what sight do I see? Who are you, woman?
905
Mnesilochus: But who are you? For the same story holds both for you and for me.
Euripides: Are you a Greek woman or a country woman?
Mnesilochus: A Greek woman. But I also want to learn your [name].
Euripides: 'Woman, I have seen you most like Helen.'
Mnesilochus: But I [will give you] to Menelaus as many [of them] as there are from the figs.
910
Euripides: You have rightly recognized the most unhappy man.
Mnesilochus: O long-coming one of your hearth, wife!
Mnesilochus: Take me, take me, husband, and put your arms around me.
Mnesilochus: Come, bite me. Take me away, take me away, take me away!
915
Mnesilochus: having taken it very quickly.
Woman G: You will cry, then, by the two goddesses.
Woman G: Whoever leads you away, struck with the torch.
Euripides: You prevent my wife from me,
Euripides: 'To lead the child of Tyndareus to Sparta?'
Woman G: Alas, how crafty you seem to me to be!
920
WOMAN G: And there is an advisor for this. It is not yet time.
Woman G: He is acting the Egyptian. But this man will pay the penalty.
Woman G: For the prytanis and the archer are approaching.
Euripides: This is wicked; but we must pretend not to hear.
Mnesilochus: But what am I, the wretched one, doing?
925
Euripides: For I will never betray you, as long as I breathe,
Euripides: If the myriad arts do not abandon me.
Mnesilochus: This woman has drawn no one.
Prytanis: This is the cunning fellow whom Cleisthenes told us about?
Prytanis: Why are you bending down? Bind him as you lead him in.
930
Prytanis: O archer on the board, and then here.
Prytanis: set up [the guards] and keep them, and let no one approach.
Prytanis: Let him be with him, but have the whip.
Prytanis: 'Child, if anyone comes near.'
Woman 3: By Zeus, as it is now, indeed, a man
Woman G: A sailmaker almost took him away from me.
935
Mnesilochus: O Prytanis, at your right hand, which you love.
Mnesilochus: to offer a hollow piece of silver, if anyone gives it,
Mnesilochus: Grant me this small favor, even though I am dying.
Prutanyis: What favor shall I grant you?
Mnesilochus: me having undressed, naked
Mnesilochus: "Order the archer to bind himself to the plank."
940
Mnesilochus: So that an old man is not in saffron robes and headbands
Mnesilochus: I provide amusement to the crows by feasting.
Prutanis: Since you have these things, it has seemed good to the council that you must,
Prytanis: so that, being a rogue, you may be obvious to those passing by.
Mnesilochus: Iapapaiax! O, what a saffron-colored thing you have made!
945
Mnesilochus: And there is no hope of salvation anymore.
