Oh, no. Not a sea-port, where some fine morning the Salaminian[1]
galley can appear, bringing a writ-server along. Have you no Greek town
you can propose to us?

f[1] The State galley, which carried the officials of the Athenian
republic to their several departments and brought back those whose time
had expired; it was this galley that was sent to Sicily to fetch back
Alcibiades, who was accused of sacrilege.

EPOPS
Why not choose Lepreum in Elis for your settlement?

EUELPIDES
By Zeus! I could not look at Lepreum without disgust, because of
Melanthius.[1]

f[1] A tragic poet, who was a leper; there is a play, of course,
on the word Lepreum.

EPOPS
Then, again, there is the Opuntian, where you could live.

EUELPIDES
I would not be Opuntian[1] for a talent. But come, what is it like
to live with the birds? You should know pretty well.

f[1] An allusion to Opuntius, who was one-eyed.

EPOPS
Why, 'tis not a disagreeable life. In the first place, one has no purse.