Why, its
salvation
hangs on a poor thread then!
Aristophanes
And is it thick too?
LYSISTRATA. Yes indeed, both big and great.
CALONICE. And we are not all on the spot!
LYSISTRATA. Oh! if it were what you suppose, there would be never an
absentee. No, no, it concerns a thing I have turned about and about this
way and that of many sleepless nights.
CALONICE. It must be something mighty fine and subtle for you to have
turned it about so!
LYSISTRATA. So fine, it means just this, Greece saved by the women!
CALONICE. By women!
Why, its salvation hangs on a poor thread then!
LYSISTRATA. Our country's fortunes depend on us--it is with us to undo
utterly the Peloponnesians. . . .
CALONICE. That would be a noble deed truly!
LYSISTRATA. To exterminate the Boeotians to a man!
CALONICE. But surely you would spare the eels. [392]
LYSISTRATA. For Athens' sake I will never threaten so fell a doom; trust
me for that. However, if the Boeotian and Peloponnesian women join us,
Greece is saved.
CALONICE.
LYSISTRATA. Yes indeed, both big and great.
CALONICE. And we are not all on the spot!
LYSISTRATA. Oh! if it were what you suppose, there would be never an
absentee. No, no, it concerns a thing I have turned about and about this
way and that of many sleepless nights.
CALONICE. It must be something mighty fine and subtle for you to have
turned it about so!
LYSISTRATA. So fine, it means just this, Greece saved by the women!
CALONICE. By women!
Why, its salvation hangs on a poor thread then!
LYSISTRATA. Our country's fortunes depend on us--it is with us to undo
utterly the Peloponnesians. . . .
CALONICE. That would be a noble deed truly!
LYSISTRATA. To exterminate the Boeotians to a man!
CALONICE. But surely you would spare the eels. [392]
LYSISTRATA. For Athens' sake I will never threaten so fell a doom; trust
me for that. However, if the Boeotian and Peloponnesian women join us,
Greece is saved.
CALONICE.
