78 ARISTOPHANES,
Boy (singing again).

‘‘When the armies met together, marching slow across the
field,
Loudly buckler dashed on buckler, loudly round-bossed
shield on shield.” :

T. “Buckler! Boy, how dare you talk about buck-
lers?”

Boy (singing).
‘“‘Vaunts of victors, groans of dying, rose together to the

sky.”

7. “Say another word about ‘groans of dying’
and you shall repent it.”

Boy. “But what am I to sing? Tell me the sort
of songs you like.”

ZT. “Then on flesh of beeves they feasted, —

something of that sort.”
Boy (singing).
“Then on flesh of beeves they feasted, first from off their
sweating steeds

Loosing chariot yoke and traces, wearied sore of warlike
deeds.”

T. “That’s good. They had had enough of war,
and then feasted. Sing again of how they had had
enough and feasted.”

Boy (singing).

“Rested well they called for casques.”