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It is time, friends, high time to go to the banquet - if we want to have our share of it - [1165] to go to the banquet. Open your ranks and let the Cretan rhythms regulate your dances. Blepyrus
That's what I am doing. Chorus
And you others, let your light steps too keep time.
[1168] Very soon we'll be eating [1170] lepadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiotyromelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephaliokinklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetragalopterygon. [1175] Come, quickly, seize hold of a plate, snatch up a cup, and let's run to secure a place at table. The rest will have their jaws at work by this time. Chorus
As they depart, dancing, with Blepyrus leading them.
[1180] Dance gaily! Iai! Iai! We shall dine! Euoi! Euai! Euai! As for a triumph! Euoi! Euoi! Euai! Euai!
Aristophanes. Ecclesiazusae. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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