Aristophanes' LYSISTRATA Complete

A Literal Translation, with Notes.

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MYRRHINE. Wait a minute!

CINESIAS. Oh! by the great gods, be quick back!

MYRRHINE (coming back with a mattress). Here is a mattress. Lie down, I am just going to undress. But, but you've got no pillow.

CINESIAS. I don't want one, no, no.

MYRRHINE. But I do.

CINESIAS. Oh! dear, oh, dear! they treat my poor penis for all the world like Heracles.[449]

MYRRHINE (coming back with a pillow). There, lift your head, dear!

CINESIAS. That's really everything.

MYRRHINE. Is it everything, I wonder.

CINESIAS. Come, my treasure.

[449] The comic poets delighted in introducing Heracles (Hercules) on the stage as an insatiable glutton, whom the other characters were for ever tantalizing by promising toothsome dishes and then making him wait indefinitely for their arrival.

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