ARISTOPHANES' FROGS
7
Dionysus.
Don't be absurd! Come here. I want something.
Heracles.
I would, but I can't yet shake this laughter off:
The lion-skin on a robe of saffron silk!
How comes my club to sort with high-heeled boots?
What's the idea? Where have you come from now?
Dionysus.
I've been at sea, serving with Cleisthenes.
Heracles.
You fought a battle?
Dionysus.
Yes: sank several ships,
Some twelve or thirteen.
Heracles.
Just you two?
Dionysus.
Of course.
Xanthias (aside).
And then I woke, and it was all a dream!
Dionysus.
Well, one day I was sitting there on deck
Reading the Andromeda, when all at once
A great desire came knocking at my hesrt,
You'd hardly think . . .
Heracles.
A great desire? How big?
