Plutarch, Nicias, chapter 8, section 2

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[2] For this, Aristophanes again scoffs at him in his ‘Birds,’ in words like these:—

And lo! by Zeus! we can no longer doze about,—
We have no time,—nor shilly-shally-niciasize;

¹ and in his ‘Farmers,’ where he writes:—

I want to go a-farming.

Pray who hinders you?

You people do. Come! Let me give a thousand drachms
If you'll release me from my offices.

'Tis done!
Yours make two thousand, counting those that Nicias gave.

²

1 Verses 638 f.

2 This play is not extant. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 416.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.

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