escape with its wings?

TRYGAEUS (EXPOSING HIMSELF)
I am fitted with a rudder in case of need, and my Naxos beetle
will serve me as a boat.[1]

f[1] Boats, called 'beetles,' doubtless because in form they resembled these
insects, were built at Naxos.

LITTLE DAUGHTER
And what harbour will you put in at?

TRYGAEUS
Why is there not the harbour of Cantharos at the Piraeus?[1]

f[1] Nature had divided the Piraeus into three basins--Cantharos,
Aphrodisium and Zea. [Cantharos] is Greek for dung-beetle.

LITTLE DAUGHTER
Take care not to knock against anything and so fall off into
space; once a cripple, you would be a fit subject for Euripides, who
would put you into a tragedy.[1]

f[1] In allusion to Euripides' fondness for introducing lame heroes in
his plays.

TRYGAEUS
I'll see to it. Good-bye! (TO THE ATHENIANS.) You, for love of whom
I brave these dangers, do ye neither let wind nor go to stool for the
space of three days, for, if, while cleaving the air, my steed should scent