Dionysus: 'He would find it, by Zeus, if he would bring him up again.'
1460
Aeschylus: I would say it there, but I do not wish to here.
Dionysus: No, certainly not you, but from here release the goods.
Aeschylus: 'When they think they have the land of the enemies.'
Aeschylus: 'It is one's own, but one's own of the enemies,'
Aeschylus: they made a passage, but there was a lack of a passage.
1465
Dionysus: Good, except that the judge swallows them all alone.
Pluto: I would have been lilies.
Dionysus: This will be your trial.
Dionysus: For I will choose whichever the soul desires.
Euripides: now remember the gods whom you swore by.
Euripides: Yes indeed, he would lead me home; choose the friends.
1470
Dionysus: The tongue has sworn, but I shall choose Aeschylus.
Euripides: What have you done, most wicked of men?
Dionysus: Me?
Dionysus: I judged Aeschylus to win. For why not?
Euripides: Is this the worst thing you have done in gazing at me?
Dionysus: What is shameful, if it does not seem so to the spectators?
1475
Euripides: "Oh wretch, will you indeed look upon me as dead?"
Dionysus: Who knows if to live is indeed to die,
Dionysus: But to breathe is to dine, but to sleep is to row?
Pluto: Go in then, O Dionysus.
Dionysus: What then?
Pluto: In order that I may entertain you both before you sail away.
1480
Dionysus: You speak well.
DIONYSUS: By Zeus! For I am not annoyed by the matter.
Frogs. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.