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Perseus Greek · Perseus Greek · 715 sections

1. 1494

   It is your business, O torch, to send forth abundant flame.

2. 1495

   What are you doing, fellow?

3. 1495b

   What am I doing? Why, what else, than chopping logic with the beams of your house?

4. 1497

   (from within). Ah me! Who is setting fire to our house?

5. 1498

   The man whose cloak you have taken.

6. 1499

   (from within). You will destroy us! You will destroy us!

7. 1499b

   For I also wish this very thing;

8. 1500

   unless my mattock deceive my hopes, or I should somehow fall first and break my neck.

9. 1502

   (from within). Hollo you! What are you doing, pray, you fellow on the roof?

10. 1503

    I am walking on air, and speculating about the sun.

11. 1504

    Ah me, unhappy! I shall be suffocated, wretched man!

12. 1505

    And I, miserable man, shall be burnt to death!

13. 1506

    For what has come into your heads that you acted insolently toward the gods, and pried into the seat of the moon?

14. 1508

    Chase, pelt, smite them, for many reasons, but especially because you know that they offended against the gods!

15. 1510

    Lead the way out; for we have sufficiently acted as chorus for today.

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