Keep up your
courage!
Aristophanes
Bend down.
MNESILOCHUS. Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.
EURIPIDES. Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and take care of the
tender end of your tail!
MNESILOCHUS. Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbour, or
my rump will be alight!
EURIPIDES.
Keep up your courage!
MNESILOCHUS. Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?
EURIPIDES. Come, cease your whining, the worst is over.
MNESILOCHUS. Oh! it's quite black, all burnt below there all about the
hole!
EURIPIDES. Don't worry! that will be washed off with a sponge.
MNESILOCHUS. Woe to him who dares to wash my rump!
EURIPIDES. Agathon, you refuse to devote yourself to helping me; but at
any rate lend me a tunic and a belt. You cannot say you have not got
them.
MNESILOCHUS. Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.
EURIPIDES. Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and take care of the
tender end of your tail!
MNESILOCHUS. Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbour, or
my rump will be alight!
EURIPIDES.
Keep up your courage!
MNESILOCHUS. Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?
EURIPIDES. Come, cease your whining, the worst is over.
MNESILOCHUS. Oh! it's quite black, all burnt below there all about the
hole!
EURIPIDES. Don't worry! that will be washed off with a sponge.
MNESILOCHUS. Woe to him who dares to wash my rump!
EURIPIDES. Agathon, you refuse to devote yourself to helping me; but at
any rate lend me a tunic and a belt. You cannot say you have not got
them.
