The Ecclesiazusae Or Female Parliament Author:Aristophanes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLEPHYRUS. Then Lysicrates1', the bottle-nosed, will meet as good success, Among the fair, as any one? PRAXAGORA. By great Apollo, yes : And oft t... more »he sturdy rustic shall elbow out the fop, With, " Sir, I am your senior, till I'm served you'll please to stop." BLEPHYRUS. But, prythee, how shall each man tell what bantlings" are his own, In such a state of things ? PRAXAGORA. Wherefore needs it to be known? As sires, the children shall be taught to honour and revere All older than themselves. BLEPHYRUS. Wella-day, now much I fear,Lest for stranglings this uncertainty afford a tempting h Lysicrates seems to have been remarkable on the same account as Juvenal's cobler of Beneventum, and Shakespeare's Bardolph. ' " But how shall fathers and daughters, and those other relations you now mentioned, be known of one another ? They shall not be known at all, said 1: but from the day on which any one is a bridegroom, whatever children are born in the 10th or 7th month after it, all these he shall call, the male his sons, and the female his daughters, and they shall call him father. " Taylor's transl. p. 300. cloak : For since wittingly the son his dad is often known to choke, Each youngster now, who feels inclined, the liberty will take Of throttling us old men—then say, " 'twas done through pure mistake." PRAXAGORA. If e'er in former times a son t'assault his father chose, Toajellyhemight beathim,yet nonewouldinterpose; But now self-preservation's1' law will bid each dad unite, At need, the graceless varlet to chastise with main and might. HLEPHYRUS. Thus far your words of wisdom smack; yet think what a disgrace, If the rakehell Epicurus' call me father to my face? PRAXAGORA. Amischance might you befall far wo...« less