§1364ὦ οὗτος οὗτος τυφεδανὲ καὶ χοιρόθλιψ,
Hey, you, you decaying dotard, you pig-squeezer!
§1365ποθεῖν ἐρᾶν τʼ ἔοικας ὡραίας σοροῦ.
You seem to long and lust for a ripe coffin.
§1366οὔτοι καταπροίξει μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω τοῦτο δρῶν.
By Apollo, you certainly won't get away with doing this.
§1367ὡς ἡδέως φάγοις ἂν ἐξ ὄξους δίκην.
How gladly you would eat a lawsuit in vinegar!
Is it not outrageous for you to mock, having stolen the flute-girl from the fellow-drinkers?
§1369bποίαν αὐλητρίδα;
What flute-girl?
§1370τί ταῦτα ληρεῖς ὥσπερ ἀπὸ τύμβου πεσών;
Why do you talk this nonsense, as if you had fallen from a tomb?
§1371νὴ τὸν Δίʼ αὕτη πού ʼστί σοί γʼ ἡ Δαρδανίς.
By Zeus, this one here is surely your Dardanian girl!
§1372οὔκ, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἀγορᾷ τοῖς θεοῖς δᾲς κάεται.
No, but a torch is being burned for the gods in the marketplace.
§1373δᾲς ἥδε;
This is a torch?
§1373bδᾲς δῆτʼ.
A torch indeed.
οὐχ ὁρᾷς ἐστιγμένην;
Don't you see it is branded?
§1374τί δὲ τὸ μέλαν τοῦτʼ ἐστὶν αὐτῆς τοὐν μέσῳ;
And what is this black thing in the middle of it?
§1375ἡ πίττα δήπου καομένης ἐξέρχεται.
Surely it's the pitch coming out as it burns.
§1376ὁ δʼ ὄπισθεν οὐχὶ πρωκτός ἐστιν οὑτοσί;
And isn't this behind here a rump?
§1377ὄζος μὲν οὖν τῆς δᾳδὸς οὗτος ἐξέχει.
Rather, that is a knot of the torch sticking out.
§1378τί λέγεις σύ;
What are you saying?
ποῖος ὄζος;
What knot?
οὐκ εἶ δεῦρο σύ;
Won't you come here, you?
§1379ἆ ἆ τί μέλλεις δρᾶν;
Ah, ah! What are you going to do?
To take her and lead her away, snatching her from you and considering you to be rotten and unable to do anything.
§1381bἄκουσόν νυν ἐμοῦ.
Listen to me now.
§1382Ὀλυμπίασιν, ἡνίκʼ ἐθεώρουν ἐγώ, §1383Ἐφουδίων ἐμαχέσατʼ Ἀσκώνδᾳ καλῶς §1384ἤδη γέρων ὤν· εἶτα τῇ πυγμῇ θενὼν §1385ὁ πρεσβύτερος κατέβαλε τὸν νεώτερον.
At Olympia, when I was spectating, Ephudion fought well against Ascondas, though already an old man; then, striking with his fist, the older man knocked down the younger.
§1386πρὸς ταῦτα τηροῦ μὴ λάβῃς ὑπώπια.
In view of this, watch out lest you get black eyes.
§1387νὴ τὸν Δίʼ ἐξέμαθές γε τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν.
By Zeus, you certainly learned the lesson of Olympia!
§1388ἴθι μοι παράστηθʼ, ἀντιβολῶ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν.
Come, stand by me, I entreat you by the gods.
§1389ὁδὶ γὰρ ἁνήρ ἐστιν ὅς μʼ ἀπώλεσεν §1390τῇ δᾳδὶ παίων, κἀξέβαλεν ἐντευθενὶ §1391ἄρτους δέκʼ ὀβολῶν κἀπιθήκην τέτταρας.
For here is the man who ruined me, hitting me with his torch, and knocked out from here ten obols' worth of loaves, and four extra.
§1392ὁρᾷς ἃ δέδρακας;
Do you see what you have done?
πράγματʼ αὖ δεῖ καὶ δίκας §1393ἔχειν διὰ τὸν σὸν οἶνον.
Again we must have trouble and lawsuits because of your wine.
§1393bοὐδαμῶς γʼ, ἐπεὶ §1394λόγοι διαλλάξουσιν αὐτὰ δεξιοί· §1395ὥστʼ οἶδʼ ὁτιὴ ταύτῃ διαλλαχθήσομαι.
Not at all, since clever words will reconcile these things; so I know that I will be reconciled with her.
§1396οὔτοι μὰ τὼ θεὼ καταπροίξει Μυρτίας §1397τῆς Ἀγκυλίωνος θυγατέρος καὶ Σωστράτης, §1398οὕτω διαφθείρας ἐμοῦ τὰ φορτία.
By the two goddesses, you certainly won't get away with treating Myrtia, the daughter of Ankylion and Sostrate, like this, having destroyed my wares in this way.
Listen, woman; I want to tell you a pleasant story.
§1400bμὰ Δία μὴ ʼμοί γʼ ὦ μέλε.
By Zeus, not to me, my dear fellow!
As Aesop was walking home from dinner in the evening, a bold and drunken bitch barked at him.
§1403κἄπειτʼ ἐκεῖνος εἶπεν,
ὦ κύον κύον, §1404εἰ νὴ Δίʼ ἀντὶ τῆς κακῆς γλώττης ποθὲν §1405πυροὺς πρίαιο, σωφρονεῖν ἄν μοι δοκεῖς. §1406καὶ καταγελᾷς μου;
And then he said: "O dog, dog, if, by Zeus, instead of your evil tongue you would buy wheat from somewhere, you would seem to me to show good sense." And do you mock me?
προσκαλοῦμαί σʼ ὅστις εἶ §1407πρὸς τοὺς ἀγορανόμους βλάβης τῶν φορτίων, §1408κλητῆρʼ ἔχουσα Χαιρεφῶντα τουτονί.
I summon you, whoever you are, before the market-inspectors for damage to my wares, having this Chaerephon here as my summoner.
§1409μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλʼ ἄκουσον, ἤν τί σοι δόξω λέγειν.
No, by Zeus, but listen, to see if you think I say anything sensible.
§1410Λᾶσός ποτʼ ἀντεδίδασκε καὶ Σιμωνίδης· §1411ἔπειθʼ ὁ Λᾶσος εἶπεν,
ὀλίγον μοι μέλει. §1412ἄληθες οὗτος;
Lasus once competed in training choruses against Simonides; then Lasus said: "I care very little." Really, you?
§1412bκαὶ σὺ δή μοι Χαιρεφῶν §1413γυναικὶ † κλητεύειν ἐοικὼς † θαψίνῃ, §1414Ἰνοῖ κρεμαμένῃ πρὸς ποδῶν Εὐριπίδου.
And you indeed, Chaerephon, appearing to act as a summoner for a sallow woman, like Ino hanging at Euripides' feet.
Here comes another, as it seems, to summon you; at any rate he has his summoner with him.
§1417οἴμοι κακοδαίμων.
Alas, wretch that I am!
προσκαλοῦμαί σʼ ὦ γέρον §1418ὕβρεως.
I summon you, old man, for battery.
§1418bὕβρεως;
For battery?
μὴ μὴ καλέσῃ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν·
Don't, don't summon him, by the gods!
For I will pay the penalty on his behalf, whatever you set, and I will be grateful besides.
Well, I will reconcile with him willingly; for I admit that I struck him and threw things.
§1423ἀλλʼ ἐλθὲ δευρί·
But come here.
πότερον ἐπιτρέπεις ἐμοί, §1424ὅ τι χρή μʼ ἀποτείσαντʼ ἀργύριον τοῦ πράγματος §1425εἶναι φίλον τὸ λοιπόν, ἢ σύ μοι φράσεις;
Do you leave it to me to say what sum of money I must pay for the matter to be friends for the future, or will you tell me?
§1426σὺ λέγε.
You speak.
δικῶν γὰρ οὐ δέομʼ οὐδὲ πραγμάτων.
For I want no lawsuits or troubles.
§1427ἀνὴρ Συβαρίτης ἐξέπεσεν ἐξ ἅρματος, §1428καί πως κατεάγη τῆς κεφαλῆς μέγα σφόδρα· §1429ἐτύγχανεν γὰρ οὐ τρίβων ὢν ἱππικῆς.
A Sybarite man fell out of his chariot, and somehow broke his head very severely; for he happened not to be skilled in horsemanship.
§1430κἄπειτʼ ἐπιστὰς εἶπʼ ἀνὴρ αὐτῷ φίλος· §1431ἔρδοι τις ἣν ἕκαστος εἰδείη τέχνην. §1432οὕτω δὲ καὶ σὺ παράτρεχʼ ἐς τὰ Πιττάλου.
And then a friend of his, standing over him, said: "Let each person practice the art which he knows." And so you too run along to Pittalus' place.
§1433οὕμοιά σου καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς ἄλλοις τρόποις.
These things of yours are just like your other ways.
§1434ἀλλʼ οὖν σὺ μέμνησʼ αὐτὸς ἁπεκρίνατο.
Well, but you yourself remember what he answered.
§1435ἄκουε, μὴ φεῦγʼ. ἐν Συβάρει γυνή ποτε
Listen, don't run away.
§1436κατέαξʼ ἐχῖνον.
In Sybaris once, a woman broke a jar.
§1436bταῦτʼ ἐγὼ μαρτύρομαι.
I call this to witness!
§1437οὑχῖνος οὖν ἔχων τινʼ ἐπεμαρτύρατο·
The jar then, having someone, called him to witness.