treasure lies, unless perchance it be some bird."[1]

f[1] An Athenian proverb.

EUELPIDES
I shall sell my boat and buy a spade to unearth the vessels.

EPOPS
And how are we to give them health, which belongs to the gods?

PISTHETAERUS
If they are happy, is not that the chief thing towards health?
The miserable man is never well.

EPOPS
Old Age also dwells in Olympus. How will they get at it? Must they
die in early youth?

PISTHETAERUS
Why, the birds, by Zeus, will add three hundred years to their life.

EPOPS
From whom will they take them?

PISTHETAERUS
From whom? Why, from themselves. Don't you know the cawing crow
lives five times as long as a man?

EUELPIDES
Ah! ah! these are far better kings for us than Zeus!