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DICAEOPOLIS
Oh, Peace! companion of fair Aphrodite and of the sweet Graces, how charming are thy features and yet I never knew it! Would that Eros might join me to thee, Eros, crowned with roses as Zeuxis1 shows him to us! Perhaps I seem somewhat old to you, but I am yet able to make you a threefold offering; despite my age I could plant a long row of vines for you; then beside these some tender cuttings from the fig; finally a young vine-stock, loaded with fruit and all around the field olive trees, which would furnish us with oil, wherewith to anoint us both at the New Moons.

1 The celebrated painter, born in Heraclea, a contemporary of Aristophanes.

Aristophanes. Acharnians. The Eleven Comedies. Anonymous. New York. Liveright. 192?.
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