The Birds by Aristophanes
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you. You can fly, but we cannot.
EPOPS Well, well. PISTHETAERUS Remember Aesop's fables. It is told there, that the fox fared very ill, because he had made an alliance with the eagle. EPOPS Be at ease. You shall eat a certain root and wings will grow on your shoulders. PISTHETAERUS Then let us enter. Xanthias and Manes,[1] pick up our baggage. f[1] Servants of Pisthetaerus and Euelpides. CHORUS Hi! Epops! do you hear me? EPOPS What's the matter? CHORUS Take them off to dine well and call your mate, the melodious Procne, whose songs are worthy of the Muses; she will delight our leisure moments. PISTHETAERUS |
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