Cryer-woman: Listen, everyone. It has been resolved by the Council as follows:
Kerykeina: to the women; Timocleia was commanding,
Cryke: "Lysilla was enrolled," said Zostrata;
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Cryce: to hold an assembly early in the morning.
Kerykaina: the Thesmophoria, at which we have most leisure,
Kerykeia: and first to speak about Euripides,
Cryer-woman: That is what he deserves to suffer; for he seems to be doing wrong.
Crier-woman: For all of us. Who wishes to speak?
WOMAN A: I.
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Herald-woman: Cover this man first before speaking.
Chorus: Be quiet, be silent, pay attention; for he is already clearing his throat.
Chorus: That is what the orators do. It seems likely to be a long speech.
Woman A: By the gods, I have no ambition whatsoever.
Woman A: I will speak, I have stood up, O women; but indeed
Woman A: Wretchedly I bear it, poor wretch, for a very long time already.
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Woman A: Are you seeing us being mocked by
Woman A: Euripides' of the vegetable-seller's
Woman A: and having heard many and varied evils.
Woman A: For why does this man not deceive us about the evils?
Woman A: Where has she not been slandered, wherever there is a brief mention?
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Woman A: There are spectators, and tragedians, and choruses,
Woman A: the adulteress-breeders, whom you call 'lovers of men,'
Woman A: the wine-bibbers, the traitors, the chatterboxes,
Woman A: They are neither healthy at all, but a great evil to men;
Woman A: so that, immediately, entering from the scaffolds
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WOMAN A: they are looking at us furtively and immediately observing us
Woman A: Let there not be an adulterer hidden inside.
Woman A: But she did not do for us anything, just as before.
Woman A: It is permissible; this man has taught such evils.
Women A: our husbands; so that if anyone weaves
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Woman A: A woman seems to love a garland; and even if she gets it.
Woman A: wandering about the house with some vessel,
WOMAN A: The man asks, 'Who has smashed the pot?'
WOMAN A: No, it is not possible not to [have dealings] with the Corinthian guest-friend.
Woman A: A girl is sick, immediately her brother says,
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Woman A: I do not like the complexion of this girl.
Woman A: Very well, a certain woman wants to propose something.
Woman A: Being childless, this too cannot be hidden.
Woman A: For men are already sitting close by;
Woman A: to the old men who before [used to] the young girls
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Woman A: They were being led away; she has slandered him, so that no old man...
Woman A: She wants to marry a woman for this reason:
Woman A: For a woman is the mistress of an old man's bridegroom.
Woman A: Then through this man to the women.
Woman A: They are already putting on the seals and the bars.
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Women A: Guarding us, and furthermore Molossians
Woman A: They feed moluccas to the adulterers' dogs.
Woman A: And let these things be forgiven, but those things that were ours before
Women A: to entrust and to choose for them to go unnoticed
WOMAN A: barley meal, oil, wine, and not even these.
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Woman A: It is allowed. For the men already have the keys.
Woman A: They carry most malicious secrets.
Woman A: Spartan girl, having three molars.
Woman A: Well then, it was before, but let us go down to the door.
Woman A: for those who made a three-obol ring,
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Woman A: But now Euripides has ground them up.
Woman A: She taught her to have a little lock of hair.
Woman A: having snatched them. So now this seems to me
Woman A: 'May we come upon some sort of ruin in some way or other,'
Woman A: Either by drugs or by some single art,
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Woman A: "So that she may be ruined. I say this openly."
WOMAN A: But as for the rest, I will write it down with the secretary.
Thesmophoriazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.