THIRD WOMAN. Women, you hear how this creature still dares to speak of us all.
MNESILOCHUS. And, 'faith, I have not said all that I know. Do you want any more?
THIRD WOMAN. You cannot tell us any more; you have emptied your bag.
MNESILOCHUS. Why, I have not told the thousandth part of what we women do. Have I said how we use the hollow handles of our brooms to draw up wine unbeknown to our husbands.
THIRD WOMAN. The cursed jade!
MNESILOCHUS. And how we give meats to our lovers at the feast of the Apaturia and then accuse the cat....
THIRD WOMAN. She's mad!
MNESILOCHUS. ... Have I mentioned the woman who killed her husband with a hatchet? Of another, who caused hers to lose his reason with her potions? And of the Acharnian woman ...
THIRD WOMAN. Die, you bitch!
MNESILOCHUS. ... who buried her father beneath the bath?[594]
[594] Underneath the baths were large hollow chambers filled with steam to maintain the temperature of the water.
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