§1212οὑμὸς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαλεῖ. §1213πρός γε μέντοι τὴν θύραν §1214προαγορεύω μὴ βαδίζειν §1215τὴν ἐμήν, ἀλλʼ §1215aεὐλαβεῖσθαι τὴν κύνα. §1216ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν·
My servant will lay into them. However, to my door I warn you not to walk, but to watch out for the dog. Open the door!
παραχωρεῖν οὐ θέλεις; §1217ὑμεῖς τί κάθησθε;
Do you not wish to clear out of the way? Why are you sitting there?
μῶν ἐγὼ τῇ λαμπάδι §1218ὑμᾶς κατακαύσω;
Shall I burn you up with my torch?
φορτικὸν τὸ χωρίον. §1219οὐκ ἂν ποιήσαιμʼ.
It is a vulgar business. I would not do it.
εἰ δὲ πάνυ δεῖ τοῦτο δρᾶν, §1220ὑμῖν χαρίσασθαι, προσταλαιπωρήσομεν. §1221χἠμεῖς γε μετὰ σοῦ ξυνταλαιπωρήσομεν. §1222οὐκ ἄπιτε;
But if it is absolutely necessary to do this, to gratify you, we will endure it further. And we indeed will share the trouble with you. Will you not go away?
κωκύσεσθε τὰς τρίχας μακρά. §1223οὐκ ἄπιθʼ, ὅπως ἂν οἱ Λάκωνες ἔνδοθεν §1224καθʼ ἡσυχίαν ἀπίωσιν εὐωχημένοι; §1225οὔπω τοιοῦτον συμπόσιον ὄπωπʼ ἐγώ. §1226ἦ καὶ χαρίεντες ἦσαν οἱ Λακωνικοί· §1227ἡμεῖς δʼ ἐν οἴνῳ συμπόται σοφώτατοι. §1228ὀρθῶς γʼ, ὁτιὴ νήφοντες οὐχ ὑγιαίνομεν· §1229ἢν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐγὼ πείσω λέγων, §1230μεθύοντες ἀεὶ πανταχοῖ πρεσβεύσομεν. §1231νῦν μὲν γὰρ ὅταν ἔλθωμεν ἐς Λακεδαίμονα §1232νήφοντες, εὐθὺς βλέπομεν ὅ τι ταράξομεν· §1233ὥσθʼ ὅ τι μὲν ἂν λέγωσιν οὐκ ἀκούομεν, §1234ἃ δʼ οὐ λέγουσι, ταῦθʼ ὑπονενοήκαμεν, §1235ἀγγέλλομεν δʼ οὐ ταὐτὰ τῶν αὐτῶν πέρι. §1236νυνὶ δʼ ἅπαντʼ ἤρεσκεν· ὥστʼ εἰ μέν γέ τις §1237ᾄδοι Τελαμῶνος, Κλειταγόρας ᾄδειν δέον, §1238ἐπῃνέσαμεν ἂν καὶ προσεπιωρκήσαμεν. §1239ἀλλʼ οὑτοιὶ γὰρ αὖθις ἔρχονται πάλιν §1240ἐς ταὐτόν.
You will wail long for your hair. Will you not depart, so that the Spartans from inside may go away in peace after being well feasted? I have never yet seen such a banquet. Truly the Spartans were very charming too; and we are the wisest drinking partners in our wine. Quite right, because when we are sober we are not sane. If I can persuade the Athenians by my words, we will always go on embassies everywhere drunk. For now when we go to Lacedaemon sober, we immediately look for what we can throw into confusion; so that whatever they say, we do not hear, but what they do not say, this we suspect, and we report different accounts of the same things. But now everything pleased us; so that if anyone sang the song of Telamon, when he ought to have sung Cleitagora's, we would have praised him and sworn false oaths besides. But here they are coming back again to the same place.
οὐκ ἐρρήσετʼ ὦ μαστιγίαι; §1241νὴ τὸν Δίʼ ὡς ἤδη γε χωροῦσʼ ἔνδοθεν. §1242ὦ Πολυχαρείδα λαβὲ τὰ φυσατήρια, §1243ἵνʼ ἐγὼ διποδιάξω τε κἀείσω καλὸν §1244ἐς τὼς Ἀσαναίως τε † καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἅμα †. §1245λαβὲ δῆτα τὰς φυσαλλίδας πρὸς τῶν θεῶν, §1246ὡς ἥδομαί γʼ ὑμᾶς ὁρῶν ὀρχουμένους. §1247ὅρμαον §1248τὼς κυρσανίως ὦ Μναμοΰνα §1249τάν τʼ ἐμὰν Μῶαν, ἅτις §1250οἶδεν ἁμὲ τώς τʼ Ἀσαναίως, §1251ὅκα τοὶ μὲν ἐπʼ Ἀρταμιτίῳ §1252πρὤκροον σιοείκελοι §1253ποττὰ κᾶλα τὼς Μήδως τʼ ἐνίκων, §1254ἁμὲ δʼ αὖ Λεωνίδας §1255ἆγεν ᾇπερ τὼς κάπρως §1256θάγοντας οἰῶ τὸν ὀδόντα· §1257πολὺς δʼ ἀμφὶ τὰς γένυας ἀφρὸς † ἤνσει †, §1258πολὺς δʼ ἁμᾷ καττῶν σκελῶν ἀφρὸς ἵετο. §1260ἦν γὰρ τὤνδρες οὐκ ἐλάσσως §1261τᾶς ψάμμας τοὶ Πέρσαι. §1262ἀγροτέρα σηροκτόνε §1263μόλε δεῦρο παρσένε σιὰ §1264ποττὰς σπονδάς, §1265ὡς συνέχῃς πολὺν ἁμὲ χρόνον. §1266νῦν δʼ αὖ φιλία τʼ αἰὲς εὔπορος εἴη §1267ταῖς συνθήκαις, §1268καὶ τᾶν αἱμυλᾶν ἀλωπέκων παυσαίμεθα. §1269ὢ δεῦρʼ ἴθι δεῦρʼ ὦ §1270κυναγὲ παρσένε. §1273ἄγε νυν ἐπειδὴ τἄλλα πεποίηται καλῶς, §1274ἀπάγεσθε ταύτας ὦ Λάκωνες, τάσδε τε §1275ὑμεῖς·
Clear out, you scoundrels! By Zeus, yes, they are already coming out from inside. Polycharidas, take the pipe-bellows, so that I may dance the dipodia and sing a fine song for the Athenians and for ourselves at the same time. Do take the pipes, by the gods, since I am so delighted to see you dancing. Stir up the young men, O Mnemosyne, and my Muse, who knows us and the Athenians, when they, at Artemisium, dashed forward like gods against the ships and defeated the Medes, and us, in turn, Leonidas led like wild boars whetting their tusks; and much foam bloomed about our cheeks, and much foam poured down our legs together. For the men, the Persians, were no fewer than the sand. O wild huntress, slayer of beasts, come hither, virgin goddess, to our treaty, so that you may hold us together for a long time. And now in turn may friendship always be smooth in our treaties, and may we cease from wily foxes. Oh, come hither, come hither, O huntress virgin. Come now, since other things have been well done, lead these women away, O Spartans, and these you in turn.
ἀνὴρ δὲ παρὰ γυναῖκα καὶ γυνὴ §1276στήτω παρʼ ἄνδρα, κᾆτʼ ἐπʼ ἀγαθαῖς συμφοραῖς §1277ὀρχησάμενοι θεοῖσιν εὐλαβώμεθα §1278τὸ λοιπὸν αὖθις μὴ ʼξαμαρτάνειν ἔτι. §1279πρόσαγε χορόν, ἔπαγε δὲ Χάριτας, §1280ἐπὶ δὲ κάλεσον Ἄρτεμιν, §1281ἐπὶ δὲ δίδυμον ἀγέχορον §1282Ἰήιον §1283εὔφρονʼ, ἐπὶ δὲ Νύσιον, §1284ὃς μετὰ μαινάσι Βάκχιος ὄμμασι δαίεται, §1285Δία τε πυρὶ φλεγόμενον, ἐπί τε §1286πότνιαν ἄλοχον ὀλβίαν· §1287εἶτα δὲ δαίμονας, οἷς ἐπιμάρτυσι §1288χρησόμεθʼ οὐκ ἐπιλήσμοσιν §1289Ἡσυχίας πέρι τῆς ἀγανόφρονος, §1290ἣν ἐποίησε θεὰ Κύπρις.
And let husband stand beside wife, and wife beside husband; and then, having danced for our good fortune to the gods, let us take care in the future never to err again. Lead on the chorus, bring in the Graces, and call upon Artemis, and call upon her twin, the dance-leader, the kindly Ieios, and upon the Nysian, who blazes with Bacchic eyes among his Maenads, and Zeus burning with fire, and his revered, blessed wife; and then the deities, whom we shall use as unforgetting witnesses of gentle-minded Peace, whom the goddess Cypris made. Alalai!
Ie Paian! Leap up high, iai! As for victory, iai! Euoi, euoi!
§1295πρόφαινε δὴ σὺ Μοῦσαν ἐπὶ νέᾳ νέαν. §1296Ταΰγετον αὖτʼ ἐραννὸν ἐκλιπῶα §1297Μῶα μόλε Λάκαινα πρεπτὸν ἁμὶν §1298κλέωα τὸν Ἀμύκλαις σιὸν §1300καὶ χαλκίοικον Ἀσάναν, §1301Τυνδαρίδας τʼ ἀγασώς, §1302τοὶ δὴ πὰρ Εὐρώταν ψιάδδοντι. §1303εἶα μάλʼ ἔμβη §1304ὢ εἶα κοῦφα πάλλων, §1305ὡς Σπάρταν ὑμνίωμες, §1306τᾷ σιῶν χοροὶ μέλοντι §1307καὶ ποδῶν κτύπος, §1308ᾇ τε πῶλοι ταὶ κόραι §1309πὰρ τὸν Εὐρωταν §1310ἀμπάλλοντι πυκνὰ ποδοῖν §1311ἀγκονίωαι, §1312ταὶ δὲ κόμαι σείονθʼ ᾇπερ Βακχᾶν §1313θυρσαδδωᾶν καὶ παιδδωᾶν. §1314ἁγεῖται δʼ ἁ Λήδας παῖς §1315ἁγνὰ χοραγὸς εὐπρεπής. §1316ἀλλʼ ἄγε κόμαν παραμπύκιδδε χερί, ποδοῖν τε πάδη §1319ᾇ τις ἔλαφος· κρότον δʼ ἁμᾷ ποίει χορωφελήταν. §1320καὶ τὰν σιὰν δʼ αὖ τὰν κρατίσταν Χαλκίοικον ὕμνει τὰν πάμμαχον.
Euai, euai! Now produce indeed a new Muse for a new occasion. Leaving lovely Taygetus again, come, O Laconian Muse, to celebrate for us in fitting song the god of Amyclae and Athena of the Bronze House, and the noble Tyndaridae, who indeed play beside the Eurotas. Come, stride on mightily, oh come, leaping lightly, so that we may praise Sparta, which cares for choruses of gods and the beating of feet, and where the girls like fillies beside the Eurotas leap rapidly with their feet, stirring up dust, and their hair shakes like that of Maenads brandishing the thyrsus and playing. And Leda's daughter leads them, the pure, beautiful leader of the dance. But come, bind your hair with your hand, and leap like a deer with your feet; and make a beat together that helps the dance. And praise again the most mighty goddess of the Bronze House, the all-conquering.