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1273—1312.
LYSISTRATA.
447

Lys. Come now, since the other matters have been trans- acted well, do you, Spartans, lead away these,[1] and you, Athenians, the others! and let husband stand beside wife, and wile beside husband: and then, after having danced in honour[2] of the gods for our prosperous fortune, let us be cautious henceforth never to sin again!

Chorus of Athenians. Lead forward the chorus! offer thanks! and invoke Artemis! and invoke her twin brother, leader of the chorus, the gracious Apollo! and invoke Nysius I Bacchus,[3] who sparkles with his eyes amongst the Mænads! and Jove blazing with fire! and invoke his venerable, blessed spouse! and then the deities, whom we shall use as no forgetful witnesses respecting the noble Peace, which the goddess Venus made! Alalai! io pæan![4] Raise yourselves[5] aloft! io! io! io! for the victory![6] Evoe, evoe! evæ, evæ![7] Spartan,[8] do you now produce a new song after our new song.

Chorus of Spartans. Come[9] again, Spartan Muse, having left the lovely Taygetus, celebrating Apollo, the god of Amyclas, revered by us; and Minerva dwelling in a brazen house;[10] and the brave Tyndaridæ, who sport beside the Eurotas. Come, advance rapidly! Oh, come, bounding lightly! so that we may celebrate Sparta, to whom the choruses of the gods are a care and the sound of feet; and the damsels, like fillies, bound up frequently with their feet beside the Eurotas, making haste; and their locks are agitated, like those of the Bacchanals brandishing the thyrsus

  1. ↑ "What the Scholiast on vs. 1277 says, that Lacedæmonian women were present, is hardly credible. The Lacedæmonians lead away the women who had occupied the Acropolis, the Athenians those women who formed the chorus in the beginning." Enger.
  2. ↑ "In honorem Deorum." Brunck. For this idiom, see Krüger, Gr. Gr. § 48, 4, obs. 4. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 86.
  3. ↑ Enger has adopted the conjecture proposed by Bergk, (Rhen. Mus. 1841, p. 95,) ὃς μετὰ Μαινάσι βαγχιοῖ εὐάσιν.
  4. ↑ Comp. Aves, 1763.
  5. ↑ Comp. Eccles. 1179—1182.
  6. ↑ See Krüger, on Thuc. vi. 4.5. Cf. ibid. vi. 76, vii. 73.
  7. ↑ See Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 1043.
  8. ↑
    "Lakoner, nun beginn' auch du Gesang,
    Neuen zu neuem Feste!" Droysen.
    "Exhibit thy new song to answer mine!" Wheelwright.
  9. ↑ See Barges, Class. J. xxx. p. 291, 292.
  10. ↑ See Krüger on Thuc. i. 128. Pausan. iii. 17, 3.
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