Aeschylus: halcyons, which by the ever-flowing sea
Aeschylus: you chatter with waves,
1310
Aeschylus: to moisten with the southern wings
Aeschylus: 'sprinkling the skin with showers of dew.'
Aeschylus: and the ones under the roof, along the corners
Aeschylus: you twirl the phalanxes with your fingers.
Aeschylus: 'looms' woven shafts,'
1315
Aeschylus: the labors of the singing shuttle,
Aeschylus: so that the dolphin, which loves itself, would leap.
Aeschylus: with early cyan-blue planks
Aeschylus: oracles and stadiums,
Aeschylus: the gladness of the grapevine, the bloom of wine,
1320
Aeschylus: the winding, toil-reposing cluster.
Aeschylus: Wrap your arms around, my child.
Aeschylus: Do you see this foot?
Aeschylus: But what then? Do you see this one?
Aeschylus: in this way, however, you do it
1325
Aeschylus: Do you dare to criticize my parts,
Aeschylus: up through the twelve-pitcher mechanism.
Aeschylus: Making melodies for Cyrene?
Aeschylus: Those are your stanzas. But I wish for more.
Aeschylus: to go through the manner of the monodies.
1330
Aeschylus: 'Oh darkness, who are you to me?'
Aeschylus: a wretched dream
Aeschylus: 'You are sending [him] from the unseen,'
Aeschylus: 'Away to Hades!'
Aeschylus: 'having a soul without a soul,'
Aeschylus: child of dark Night,
1335
Aeschylus: a terrible and terrible sight,
Aeschylus: 'black-robed with the dead,'"
Aeschylus: 'a blood-stained one, gazing with blood-shot eyes,'
Aeschylus: having large claws.
Aeschylus: But, light a lamp for me, attendants.
Aeschylus: raise the dew from the rivers in your jugs, and warm the water,
Aeschylus: as if I were to wash away a divine dream.
1340
Aeschylus: That's the one; oh, fellow-dwellers,
Aeschylus: Look at these marvels.
Aeschylus: having snatched my rooster
Aeschylus: 'It is clear to Glyke.'
Aeschylus: Nymphs, mountain-born.
Aeschylus: O Mania, seize the club.
1345
Aeschylus: But I, the wretched woman, happened to be paying attention.
Aeschylus: 'by my own works,'
Aeschylus: a spindle full of flax.
Aeschylus: 'a coiling, a coiling, a coiling with both hands'
Aeschylus: making a spindle, so that
Aeschylus: a wool-gatherer into the marketplace.
1350
Aeschylus: Let them carry them off to destruction!
Aeschylus: but he flapped, he flapped into the ether
Aeschylus: with the sharpest points of his wings;
Aeschylus: he left me grief upon grief,
Aeschylus: 'Tears, and tears from the eyes.'
Aeschylus: they shot, they shot, the wretch.
1355
Aeschylus: But, O Cretans, children of Ida,
Aeschylus: Having taken the bows, defend!
Aeschylus: And you jump around, circling the house.
Aeschylus: 'At the same time, the daughter of Dictynna, Artemis, beautiful.'
Aeschylus: Let her come, holding the little dogs, through the house everywhere,
1360
Aeschylus: but you, carrying the double-pyres of Zeus,
Aeschylus: with two hands I brandished most sharp torches for Hecate.
Aeschylus: to Glyke, so that...
Aeschylus: When she has entered, let her see.
Dionysus: stop the songs now.
Aeschylus: And that is enough for me too.
Aeschylus: For I wish to lead it to the very scale,
1365
Aeschylus: which will prove the poetry to be ours alone.
Aeschylus: for the weight will torment our words.
Dionysus: Come here now, if indeed it is necessary for me to do even this.
Dionysus: to buy cheese of the poets of men.
