And what is their rump looking at in the
heavens?
Aristophanes
Why, what are you astonished at?
What do you think they
resemble?
STREPSIADES. The captives of Pylos. [490] But why do they look so fixedly
on the ground?
DISCIPLE. They are seeking for what is below the ground.
STREPSIADES. Ah! 'tis onions they are seeking. Do not give yourselves so
much trouble; I know where there are some, fine and large ones. But what
are those fellows doing, who are bent all double?
DISCIPLE. They are sounding the abysses of Tartarus. [491]
STREPSIADES.
And what is their rump looking at in the heavens?
DISCIPLE. It is studying astronomy on its own account. But come in; so
that the master may not find us here.
STREPSIADES. Not yet, not yet; let them not change their position. I want
to tell them my own little matter.
DISCIPLE. But they may not stay too long in the open air and away from
school.
STREPSIADES. In the name of all the gods, what is that? Tell me.
(_Pointing to a celestial globe. _)
DISCIPLE. That is astronomy.
STREPSIADES.
resemble?
STREPSIADES. The captives of Pylos. [490] But why do they look so fixedly
on the ground?
DISCIPLE. They are seeking for what is below the ground.
STREPSIADES. Ah! 'tis onions they are seeking. Do not give yourselves so
much trouble; I know where there are some, fine and large ones. But what
are those fellows doing, who are bent all double?
DISCIPLE. They are sounding the abysses of Tartarus. [491]
STREPSIADES.
And what is their rump looking at in the heavens?
DISCIPLE. It is studying astronomy on its own account. But come in; so
that the master may not find us here.
STREPSIADES. Not yet, not yet; let them not change their position. I want
to tell them my own little matter.
DISCIPLE. But they may not stay too long in the open air and away from
school.
STREPSIADES. In the name of all the gods, what is that? Tell me.
(_Pointing to a celestial globe. _)
DISCIPLE. That is astronomy.
STREPSIADES.
