Eksodos
Herald
If you will not resign yourself and get to the ship, rending will have no pity on the fabric of your garments.
Chorus
We are lost! O King, we are suffering impious violence!l. 908
Herald
l. 906Oh, you will soon see many kings in Aegyptus’ sons. Be of good cheer: you will not have to blame lack of government.
905
Listen! Chiefs and rulers of the city, I am threatened with violence!l. 905
I think I will have to seize you by the hair and drag you offl. 909
since you are slow to heed my orders.
910
King
You there! What are you doing? What kind of arrogance has incited you to do such dishonor to this realm of Pelasgian men? Indeed, do you think you have come to a land of women? For a barbarian dealing with Hellenes, you act insolently.
Many are the misses of your wits, and your hits are none.
915
Herald
And in this case where have I gone wrong and transgressed my right?
King
First of all, you do not know how to act as a stranger.
Herald
I not know? How so, when I simply find and take my own that I had lost?
King
To what patrons of your land was your notice given?
Herald
To Hermes, the Searcher, greatest of patrons.
920
King
For all your notice to the gods, you do them no reverence.
Herald
I revere the deities by the Nile.
King
While ours are nothing, as I understand you?
Herald
I shall carry off these maids unless someone tears them away.
King
If you so much as touch them, you will regret it, and right soon.
925
Herald
I hear you; and your speech is far from hospitable.
King
No, since I have no hospitality for despoilers of the gods.
