stones in our hands; let us hunt him from place to place until we trap
him; I could never, never tire of the delight of stoning him.

f[1] A celebrated athlete from Croton and a victor at Olympia; he was
equally good as a runner and at the 'five exercises.'
f[2] He had been Archon at the time of the battle of Marathon.

DICAEOPOLIS
Peace! profane men![1]

f[1] A sacred formula, pronounced by the priest before offering
the sacrifice.

CHORUS
Silence all! Friends, do you hear the sacred formula? Here is he,
whom we seek! This way, all! Get out of his way, surely he comes
to offer an oblation.

DICAEOPOLIS
Peace, profane men! Let the basket-bearer[1] come forward, and thou
Xanthias, hold the phallus well upright.[2]

f[1] The maiden who carried the basket filled with fruits at the Dionysia
in honour of Bacchus.
f[2] The emblem of the fecundity of nature; it consisted of a representation,
generally grotesquely exaggerated, of the male genital organs;
the phallophori crowned with violets and ivy and their faces shaded
with green foliage, sang improvised airs, call 'Phallics,' full of obscenity
and suggestive 'double entendres.'