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watches, <strong>and</strong> when you happen to gape <strong>in</strong> another direction,<br />

eats up your entrée, <strong>and</strong> at night steals <strong>in</strong>to your kitchen<br />

all unseen, <strong>and</strong> doglike licks clean the plates <strong>and</strong> the isl<strong>and</strong>s.<br />

39<br />

Aristophanes, Equites 1395-1401 V B.C.<br />

Text <strong>and</strong> translation: J. Henderson, ed., tr., Aristophanes. Acharnians. Knights<br />

(Cambridge, Mass. <strong>and</strong> London, 1998).<br />

DHMOS<br />

1395 to_n de\ Paflago&na,<br />

o4j tau~t' e1drasen, ei1f' o3 ti poh&seij kako&n.<br />

ALLANTOPWLHS<br />

ou)de\n me/g' a)ll' h2 th_n e0mh_n e3cei te/xnhn:<br />

e0pi\ tai=j pu&laij a)llantopwlh&sei mo&noj,<br />

ta_ ku&neia meignu_j toi=j o)nei/oij pra&gmas<strong>in</strong>,<br />

1400 mequ&wn te tai=j po&rnaisi loidorh&setai,<br />

ka)k tw~n balanei/wn pi/etai to_ lou&trion.<br />

DEMOS<br />

And Paphlagon, who behaved this way, tell me how you’ll<br />

punish him.<br />

SAUSAGE SELLER<br />

Noth<strong>in</strong>g severe; he’s merely go<strong>in</strong>g to take my old job. He’ll<br />

have his own sausage st<strong>and</strong> at the city gates, hash<strong>in</strong>g up<br />

dog <strong>and</strong> ass meat <strong>in</strong>stead <strong>of</strong> politics, gett<strong>in</strong>g drunk <strong>and</strong><br />

trad<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>sults with the whores, <strong>and</strong> dr<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g the run<strong>of</strong>f<br />

from the public baths.<br />

40<br />

Aristophanes, fr. 204 Kock (Banqueters) V B.C.<br />

Text: Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta I (Leipzig, 1880).<br />

Translation: J. M. Edmonds, ed., tr., <strong>The</strong> Fragments <strong>of</strong> Attic Comedy I (Leiden, 1957).<br />

41<br />

ti/ dai/; kuni/dion lepto_n e0pri/w th|~ qea|~<br />

ei0j ta_j trio&douj;<br />

What does this mean? You’ve bought a little white pup<br />

on which the goddess at the cross may sup?<br />

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