228 ARISTOPHANES.

as you say, but a poor man lives frugally and sticks to
his work.”

Chrem. “Yes; happy man! and dies without
leaving enough to bury him.”

Pov. “Yes; you may laugh, but I make better
men than wealth can make, — better in mind, better
in body, not gouty, big-bellied, thick-legged creatures,
but spare, and small-waisted, and terrible fellows to
fight.”

Chrem. “Spare enough, I dare say, for you starve
them pretty well.”

Pov. “And as for good manners, you find them
with me; it is wealth that is insolent.”

Chrem. “Oh, yes! excellently good manners — to
steal and break into houses!”

Pov, “Then look at the politicians. While they
are poor, they are honest; let them -get a taste of
the public money, and good by to their honesty.”

Chrem. “1 don’t say that you're wrong here,
Still this shall not help you.”

Pov. “And how about Zeus? Isn’t he poor?
At the Olympic games, where all Greece meets
every four years, what is the prize that he gives to
the conquerors? A wreath of wild olive. If he had
been rich, would it not have been of gold?”

Chrem. “He satisfies them with a trifle, and keeps
the riches to himself.”

All Poverty’s arguments having proved to be un-
availing, she was driven away, though not without