Chorus: What, then, could anyone say in response to these things, when
Chorus: Does he do such things and yet have the audacity?
Mnesilochus: But I have not yet stopped.
Chorus: But indeed you have come from a place not insignificantly.
710
Chorus: having escaped, words
Chorus: such a deed you did and slipped through,
Chorus: She will receive a bad thing.
Mnesilochus: May this never, under any circumstances, happen; I pray for that.
Chorus: So, who, then, would be your ally from the gods?
715
Chorus: Would he come among the unjust deeds of the immortals?
Mnesilochus: You talk in vain; but I will not let her go.
Chorus: But by the two goddesses, perhaps he will not be glad soon.
Chorus: uttering insulting and impious words
720
Chorus: on unholy deeds;
Chorus: For we will also repay you, as is fitting, in return for these things.
Chorus: Perhaps they will change to a different sort of evil.
Chorus: Fortune holds back.
725
Chorus: But you ought to have taken these and carried them out from the wooden platform,
Chorus: And to burn down the cunning one, to set fire to him, as quickly as possible.
Thesmophoriazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.