CHREMYLUS. Take the pots of vegetables which we are going to offer to the god in honour of his installation and carry them on your head; you just happen luckily to be wearing a beautiful embroidered robe.
OLD WOMAN. And what about the object of my coming?
CHREMYLUS. Everything shall be according to your wish. The young man will be with you this evening.
OLD WOMAN. Oh! if you promise me his visit, I will right willingly carry the pots.
CHREMYLUS. Those are strange pots indeed! Generally the scum rises to the top of the pots, but here the pots are raised to the top of the old woman.[812]
CHORUS. Let us withdraw without more tarrying, and follow the others, singing as we go.[813]
[812] In the Greek there is a pun on the different significations of [Greek: graus], an old woman, and the scum, or 'mother,' which forms on the top of boiling milk.
[813] In the 'Lysistrata' the Chorus similarly makes its exit singing.
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