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The Priest departs.
Priest
Singing.
[896] It is imperative that I sing another sacred chant for the rite of the lustral water, and that I invoke [900] the immortals, or at least one of them, provided always that you have some suitable food to offer him; from what I see here, in the shape of gifts, there is naught whatever but horn and hair.
Aristophanes. Birds. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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