7/4/2023 0 Comments Best translation of lysistrata![]() No quaking, brave steps taking, careless what's ahead, white shoed,Īll ye who garrisoned Leipsidrion of old. ![]() You that below the waist are still alive,įor a man must strip to battle like a man. Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Our lives and persons hazardous by some imbecile mistakes You've squandered, and do nothing in return, save that you make If I say something advantageous to the present situation.įor I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation Ĭontribute nothing of any importance whatever to our needs īut the treasure raised against the Medes It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, Your own mother will not know you when you get back to the town.īut first, my friends and allies, let us lay these garments down,Īnd all ye fellow-citizens, hark to me while I tell but they won't catch me, that know.Ī sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand,Īnd under arms in the public place I'll take my watchful stand, Like very hungry wolves would always most sincere shun.Ī Tyranny, no doubt. Make alliance with the Spartans-people I for one Some more perilous offensive in their heads they now devise.Īnd, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle. ![]() (MAGISTRATE retires, LYSISTRATA returns within).Īll men who call your loins your own, awake at last, ariseĪnd strip to stand in readiness. ![]()
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