Aristophanes' LYSISTRATA Complete

A Literal Translation, with Notes.

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CALONICE. But I know for certain they embarked at daybreak.

LYSISTRATA. And the dames from Acharnae![395] why, I thought they would have been the very first to arrive.

CALONICE. Theagenes wife[396] at any rate is sure to come; she has actually been to consult Hecate.... But look! here are some arrivals--and there are more behind. Ah! ha! now what countrywomen may they be?

LYSISTRATA. They are from Anagyra.[397]

CALONICE. Yes! upon my word, 'tis a levy en masse of all the female population of Anagyra!

MYRRHINE. Are we late, Lysistrata? Tell us, pray; what, not a word?

LYSISTRATA. I cannot say much for you, Myrrhine! you have not bestirred yourself overmuch for an affair of such urgency.

MYRRHINE I could not find my girdle in the dark. However, if the matter is so pressing, here we are; so speak.

[395] A deme, or township, of Attica, lying five or six miles north of Athens. The Acharnians were throughout the most extreme partisans of the warlike party during the Peloponnesian struggle. See 'The Acharnians.'

[396] The precise reference is uncertain, and where the joke exactly comes in. The Scholiast says Theagenes was a rich, miserly and superstitious citizen, who never undertook any enterprise without first consulting an image of Hecate, the distributor of honour and wealth according to popular belief; and his wife would naturally follow her husband's example.

[397] A deme of Attica, a small and insignificant community--a 'Little Pedlington' in fact.

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