f[1] The Boeotians were the allies of Sparta.

DICAEOPOLIS
Two drachmae to those circumcised hounds! Groan aloud, ye people
of rowers, bulwark of Athens! Ah! great gods! I am undone; these
Odomanti are robbing me of my garlic![1] Will you give me back
my garlic?

f[1] Dicaeopolis had brought a clove of garlic with him to eat during
the Assembly.

THEORUS
Oh! wretched man! do not go near them; they have eaten garlic[1].

f[1] Garlic was given to game-cocks, before setting them at each other,
to give them pluck for the fight.

DICAEOPOLIS
Prytanes, will you let me be treated in this manner, in my own
country and by barbarians? But I oppose the discussion of paying
a wage to the Thracians; I announce an omen; I have just felt a drop
of rain.[1]

f[1] At the lest unfavourable omen, the sitting of the Assembly was
declared at an end.

HERALD
Let the Thracians withdraw and return the day after tomorrow;
the Prytanes declare the sitting at an end.