Carion: How sweet it is for men to live happily!
Carion: and even taking these things out from home.
Carion: for we have a heap of good things into the house.
Carion: He has not wronged anyone.
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Charon: So to be rich is a truly pleasant thing, then.
Carion: the jar is full of white barley.
Carion: But the amphorae of black wine of the vintage.
Carion: all [is] for us of silver and gold
Carion: The equipment is full, so that one can marvel.
Carion: but the well is full of oil; but the oil-flasks
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Carion: They are full of perfume, but the upper room is full of garlic.
Carion: and every sharp thing and a ladle and a cooking-pot.
Carion: it has become bronze; but the rotten little tablets
Carion: Buy the silver fish, that they may be seen.
Carion: But the oven has suddenly become ivory for us.
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Carion: With staters, the servants will make it up.
Chario: With gold; but we shall not be filled anymore with stones,
Charon: but because of luxury, [he is] constantly with garlic.
Carion: And now indeed the master is sacrificing inside.
Charon: crowned with a sow, a goat, and a ram;
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Carion: But the smoke drove me out. For I am not able to
Carion: I had to stay inside. For I was gnawing on my eyelids.
Dikaios: Follow me, little boy, so that [we may go] to the god.
Dikaios: Let us go.
Charon: Let him be; who is this man coming here?
Dikaios: a man formerly wretched, but now fortunate.
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Charon: clearly you are one of the good men, it seems.
Dikaios: Most certainly.
Carion: "And then you are in need?"
Dikaios: to the god
Dikaios: I have come; for I am the cause of great good things.
Dikaios: for I have a sufficient estate from my father.
Dikaios: having taken, I was exhorting the friends who needed [it],
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Dikaios: believing to be useful for life.
Carion: No wonder your money has soon deserted you.
Dikaiopolis: By all means, then.
Carion: And so afterwards you were wretched.
Dikaios: By all means, then. And I thought that until now...
Dikaios: I have done good to those who were in need, [and] they will have friends.
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Dikaios: Indeed, I would be steadfast, if I were ever to be asked.
Dikaiopolis: But they were going out of their way and did not seem to see me anymore.
Carion: And indeed I know well that I laughed.
Dikaios: certainly then;
Dikaios: for being dry he ruined me.
Charon: But not now.
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Dikaios: for these things I [am speaking] to the god
Dikaios: I have come here praying justly.
Carion: But what can the cloak do in the eyes of the gods,
Charon: Who is carrying this little boy with you? Tell me.
Dikaios: And I am coming to offer this as a votive offering to the god.
Carion: Then surely you were initiated into the Greater Mysteries?
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Dikaios: No, but he has grown thick with hair for thirteen years.
Carion: And what about the sandals?
Dikaios: And this was wintered.
Carion: And so you brought these things to be dedicated as well?
Dikaios: by Zeus.
Carion: charmingly you come, bringing gifts to the god.
Wealth. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.