44 ARISTOPHANES.

The old man bounced out inarage. “ What is all
this noise about? Get away with you! See what a
disturbance you have made. Well, Bluster, who has
been hurting you?”

B. “This eCno with his young iseas has been
beating me.’ ,

D. “And why?”

B. “Only because I love you.”

D. (turning to the sausage-seller), “ And who are
you, sir?”

S.-s. “One who loves you far better than this fel-
low. Aye, that I do, and so do other good men and
true; only, unhappily, you won’t have anything to.do
with them, but give yourself up to lamp-sellers, and
cobblers, and tanners, and such low folk.”

B. “But I have done Demos good service.”

S.-s. “How, pray?”

B. “Did I not sail to Pylos, and come back bring-
ing my Spartan prisoners?”

Sis. “Yes; and I, on my walks the other day,
saw a dish of meat that somebody else had cooked,
and filched it.”

B. “Well, Demos, call an assembly, and settle
which is your best friend.”

S.-s. “Settle it by all means, but not in the Pnyx.”!

D. “T can’t sit anywhere else.”

S.-s. “Then Iam a lost man. The old gentleman
is sensible enough at home; but once let him settle

1The Pnyx was the place of Assembly at Athens.