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Blep. And have all matters been committed to them, which used to be a care to the citizens?
Chrem. So it is.
Blep. Then shall I not go to Court, but my wife?
Chrem. No, nor any longer shall you rear the children you have, but your wife.
Blep. Nor any longer is it my business to groan[1] at day-break?
Chrem. No; by Jove! but this now is the women's care; while you shall remain at home without groans.
Blep. That thing is alarming for such as[2] us; lest, when they have received the government[3] of the state, they then compel us by force
Chrem. What to do?
Blep. to lie with them.
Chrem. But what if we be not able?
Blep. They will not give us our breakfast.
Chrem. Do you, by Jove, manage this, that you may breakfast and amuse yourself at the same time.
Blep. Compulsion is most dreadful.[4]
Chrem. But if this shall be profitable for the state, every man ought to do so. Certainly indeed[5] there is a saying of our elders,[6] "Whatever senseless or silly measures we determine on, that they all turn[7] out for our advantage." And
- ↑ "Auch nicht den Tag angähn' Ich künftig auf der Pnyx?" Droysen.
"No more then need I sigh for break of day,
When the court meets!" Smith.
See notes on Aves, 161, 1308. - ↑ "Für Leute unsers Alters." Droysen. See Krüger, Gr. Gr. § 51, 10, obs. 7. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 300.
- ↑ Cf. Equit. 1109.
- ↑ "Aye, but compulsion's odious." Smith.
- ↑ See Hermann, Vig. n. 297.
- ↑ "Audi giebt 's ein Sprichwort aus den alten Zeiten her:
Was unverstandlich wir beschliessen und verkehrt,
Das wird zu unserm Besten dock zuletzt gedeihn."Droysen.
Nub. 587,φασί γάρ δυσβουλίαν
τῇδε τῇ πόλει προσεῖναι, ταῦτα μέντοι τούς θεούς,
ἄττ’ ἄν ὑμεῖς ἑξαμάρτητ’, ἐπί τό βέλτιον τρέπειν.
Eupolis ap. Athen. x. p. 425,
ὦ πόλις, πόλις,
ὡς εὐτυχής εἶ μᾶλλον, ῆ καλῶς φρονεῖς. - ↑ Nub. 594, ἐπί τό βέλτιον τό πρᾶγμα τύ πόλει συνοίσεται. Cf. Nub. 590. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 252.