"Your
entreaties
are vain.
Aristophanes
"They want to force me to marry a son of Proteus.
"
SEVENTH WOMAN. Ah! wretch, why tell such shameful lies? Stranger, this is
a rascal who has slipped in amongst us women to rob us of our trinkets.
MNESILOCHUS (_to Seventh Woman_) "Shout! load me with your insults, for
little care I. "
EURIPIDES. "Who is the old woman who reviles you, stranger lady? "
MNESILOCHUS. "'Tis Theonoe, the daughter of Proteus. "
SEVENTH WOMAN. I! Why, my name's Critylla, the daughter of
Antitheus,[631] of the deme of Gargettus;[632] as for you, you are a
rogue.
MNESILOCHUS.
"Your entreaties are vain. Never shall I wed your brother;
never shall I betray the faith I owe my husband Menelaus, who is fighting
before Troy. "
EURIPIDES. "What are you saying? Turn your face towards me. "
MNESILOCHUS. "I dare not; my cheeks show the marks of the insults I have
been forced to suffer. "
EURIPIDES "Oh! great gods! I cannot speak, for very emotion. . . . Ah! what
do I see? Who are you?
SEVENTH WOMAN. Ah! wretch, why tell such shameful lies? Stranger, this is
a rascal who has slipped in amongst us women to rob us of our trinkets.
MNESILOCHUS (_to Seventh Woman_) "Shout! load me with your insults, for
little care I. "
EURIPIDES. "Who is the old woman who reviles you, stranger lady? "
MNESILOCHUS. "'Tis Theonoe, the daughter of Proteus. "
SEVENTH WOMAN. I! Why, my name's Critylla, the daughter of
Antitheus,[631] of the deme of Gargettus;[632] as for you, you are a
rogue.
MNESILOCHUS.
"Your entreaties are vain. Never shall I wed your brother;
never shall I betray the faith I owe my husband Menelaus, who is fighting
before Troy. "
EURIPIDES. "What are you saying? Turn your face towards me. "
MNESILOCHUS. "I dare not; my cheeks show the marks of the insults I have
been forced to suffer. "
EURIPIDES "Oh! great gods! I cannot speak, for very emotion. . . . Ah! what
do I see? Who are you?
