Demos
I would have him removed from the bar, I would bind Hyperbolus about his neck like a stone and would fling him into the Barathrum.
Sausage-Seller
Well spoken!
[1365]
but what other measures do you wish to take?
Demos
First, as soon as ever a fleet returns to the harbor, I shall pay up the rowers in full.
Sausage-Seller
That will soothe many a worn and chafed bottom.
Demos
Further, the hoplite enrolled for military service
[1370]
shall not get transferred to another service through favour, but shall stick to that given him at the outset.
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Aristophanes. Knights. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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