...laughing. Ah! what is to become of us, wretched mortals that we are? See the danger that threatens if he returns with the pestle, for War will quietly amuse himself with pounding all the towns of Hellas to pieces. Ah! Bacchus! cause this herald of evil to perish on his road! Well? Well, what? You have brought back nothing? Alas! the Athenians have lost their pestle — the tanner, who g...