Ocean, your father, approaches, delighted with these his children, these noble three. But come, if you dance with a willing mind, lead us out quickly, for this no one ever yet has done, I mean, sent away a chorus of comedians dancing. END OF THE WASPS. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. EUELPIDES. ARGUMENT, FOR the date of this Comedy see Clinton's Fast. Hellen. p. 75, ed. 2nd. “ Aristoph. "Ορνιθες. Arg. Avium ii. ἐδιδάχθη ἐπὶ Χαβρίου ἄρχοντος εις ἄστυ διὰ Καλλιστράτου ὃς ἦν δεύτερος τοῖς Ὄρνισι· πρῶτος Αμειψίας Κωμαστοῖς· τρίτος Φρύνιχος Μονοτρόπῳ. Arg. Αv. iii. ἐπὶ Χαβρίου τὸ δρᾶμα καθῆκεν εις ἄστυ διὰ Καλλίου (1. Καλλιστράτου.) [Elaphebolion, or March, B. C. 414.] Schol. Av. 998. κabeîтaι dè Kai ó Μονότροπος ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοὺ χωρίου.” This Comedy, like the preceding one, is a direct Satire upon the litigious character of that "Blithe race! whose mantles were bedecked With golden grasshoppers, in sign that they The plot is simply this. Euelpides and Pisthetærus, two ancient Athenians, tired with the law, wrangling, and sycophancy of their countrymen, resolve upon quitting Attica. Having heard of the fame of Epops, sometime called Tereus (τὸν Τηρέα ἔποπα γενόμενον, Arg.) and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw to seek at him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife. After some scrambling, their guides intimate to them that they are arrived at the residence of Epops. They knock, and Trochilus appears, under the influence of fright, as he takes them for fowlers. Epops, he informs them, is now asleep, v. 82: εὕδει καταφαγὼν μύρτα καὶ σέρφους τινάς. After some time his majesty awakes, and, upon their urging their suit, makes them the offer of several cities. These they N |