Chorus: This, however, is amazing,
520
Chorus: From where was the money found,
Chorus: Who has nurtured the country?
Chorus: This bold woman, like this.
Chorus: for to say this about the cunning woman
Chorus: plainly and shamelessly thus
525
Chorus: I should not have thought that among us
Chorus: Nor dare ever.
Chorus: But let it all have already come to pass;
Chorus: But I praise the proverb.
Chorus: The old one, for under a stone
Chorus: one must with all one's mind
530
Chorus: let not the orator bite to look.
Thesmophoriazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.