9th Wom. It's on account of Epigonus[1] yonder. For when I looked thither I thought I was speaking to women.
Prax. Away with you also,[2] and sit down there.[3] Methinks I must take this chaplet myself and speak[4] for you. I pray to the gods that I may bring our plans to a successful issue. "I have an equal share in this country as you; but I am vexed and annoyed at all the transactions of the state. For I see it always employing bad leaders: and if any be good for one day, he is bad for ten. Have[5] you committed it to another; he will do still more mischief. Therefore it is difficult to advise men so hard to please as you, who are afraid of those who wish to love you, but those who are not willing you constantly supplicate. There was a time when we did not make use of Assemblies at all, but considered Agyrrhius[6] a villain. But now, when we do make use of them, he who has received money praises the custom above measure; but he who has not received, says that those who seek to receive pay in the Assembly are worthy of death."
1st Wom. By Venus, you say this well.
Prax. You have mentioned Venus,[7] you wretch. You would have done a pretty thing, if you had said this in the Assembly.
1st Wom. But I would not have said it.
Prax. (to the first woman). Neither accustom yourself now to say it. [Returning to her subject.] "Again, when we deliberated about this alliance,[8] they said the state would
- ↑ "Epigonus is otherwise unknown." Droysen.
- ↑ "Et tu quoque, ut prior illa, facesse hinc." Brunck.
- ↑ "Hinweg mit dir auch! geh' und setz' dich dort bei Seit'." Droysen.
In Brunck's version, et posthac sede. - ↑ See Krüger, Gr. Gr. §53, 7, 3.
- ↑ For this construction, see note on Thesm. 405.
- ↑ Cf. note on vs. 102, supra. "He had been lying a considerable time in prison for embezzling the public money." Voss.
- ↑ "Venus! thou silly wench! a pretty joke,
I' faith, had this escaped thee in th' Assembly." Smith. - ↑ "The alliance here meant is that concluded with the Thebans, Argives, and Corinthians, (Ol. 96, 2, in the Archonship of Diophantus,) through the mediation of Persia, which was followed by the Corinthian war (B. C. 394). Bloody factions arose in Corinth, which impeded the undertakings of the allies: on this account Athens was angry at Corinth. Their murdering those who were favour-
