For a
thousand
reasons.
Aristophanes
.
PRAXAGORA. What?
BLEPYRUS. . . . over all public business.
PRAXAGORA. Oh! by Aphrodite! how happy Athens will be!
BLEPYRUS. Why so?
PRAXAGORA.
For a thousand reasons. None will dare now to do shameless
deeds, to give false testimony or lay informations.
BLEPYRUS. Stop! in the name of the gods! Do you want me to die of hunger?
CHORUS. Good sir, let your wife speak.
PRAXAGORA. There will be no more thieves, nor envious people, no more
rags nor misery, no more abuse and no more prosecutions and lawsuits.
BLEPYRUS. By Posidon! 'tis grand, if true.
PRAXAGORA. The results will prove it; you will confess it, and even these
good people (_pointing to the spectators_) will not be able to say a
word.
CHORUS.
PRAXAGORA. What?
BLEPYRUS. . . . over all public business.
PRAXAGORA. Oh! by Aphrodite! how happy Athens will be!
BLEPYRUS. Why so?
PRAXAGORA.
For a thousand reasons. None will dare now to do shameless
deeds, to give false testimony or lay informations.
BLEPYRUS. Stop! in the name of the gods! Do you want me to die of hunger?
CHORUS. Good sir, let your wife speak.
PRAXAGORA. There will be no more thieves, nor envious people, no more
rags nor misery, no more abuse and no more prosecutions and lawsuits.
BLEPYRUS. By Posidon! 'tis grand, if true.
PRAXAGORA. The results will prove it; you will confess it, and even these
good people (_pointing to the spectators_) will not be able to say a
word.
CHORUS.
