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Birds (201b-272b)

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Easily. I will hasten down to the thicket to waken my dear Procne
and as soon as they hear our voices, they will come to us hot wing.
Pisthetaerus
My dear bird, lose no time, please! Fly at once into the thicket and awaken Procne.
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Epops rushes into the thicket.
EpopsFrom within; singing.
Chase off drowsy sleep, dear companion.
Let the sacred hymn gush from thy divine throat in melodious strains; roll forth in soft cadence your refreshing melodies to bewail the fate of Itys, which has been the cause of so many tears to us both.
Your pure notes rise through the thick leaves of the yew-tree right up to the throne of Zeus, where Phoebus listens to you, Phoebus with his golden hair. And his ivory lyre responds to your plaintive accents;
he gathers the choir of the gods and from their immortal lips pours forth a sacred chant of blessed voices.
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The flute is played behind the scene, imitating the song of the nightingale.
Pisthetaerus
Oh! by Zeus! what a throat that little bird possesses. He has filled the whole thicket with honey-sweet melody!
Euelpides
Hush!
Pisthetaerus
What's the matter?
Euelpides
Be still!
Pisthetaerus
What for?
Euelpides
Epops is going to sing again.
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EpopsIn the thicket, singing.
Epopopoi popoi popopopoi popoi, here, here, quick, quick, quick, my comrades in the air;
all you who pillage the fertile lands of the husbandmen, the numberless tribes who gather and devour the barley seeds, the swift flying race that sings so sweetly. And you whose gentle twitter
resounds through the fields with the little cry of tiotiotiotiotiotiotiotio; and you who hop about the branches of the ivy in the gardens;
the mountain birds, who feed on the wild olive-berries or the arbutus, hurry to come at my call, trioto, trioto, totobrix; you also, who snap up the sharp-stinging
gnats in the marshy vales, and you who dwell in the fine plain of Marathon, all damp with dew, and you, the francolin with speckled wings;
you too, the halcyons, who flit over the swelling waves of the sea, come hither to hear the tidings; let all the tribes of long-necked birds assemble here;
know that a clever old man has come to us, bringing an entirely new idea and proposing great reforms. Let all come to the debate here, here, here, here.
Torotorotorotorotix, kikkabau, kikkabau, torotorotorolililix.
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Pisthetaerus
Can you see any bird?
Euelpides
By Phoebus, no! and yet I am straining my eyesight to scan the sky.
Pisthetaerus
It was hardly worth Epops' while to go and bury himself in the thicket like a hatching plover.
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A BirdEntering.
Torotix, torotix.
Pisthetaerus
Wait, friend, there's a bird.
Euelpides
By Zeus, it is a bird, but what kind? Isn't it a peacock?
PisthetaerusAs Epops comes out of the thicket.
Epops will tell us. What is this bird?
Epops
It's not one of those you are used to seeing; it's a bird from the marshes.
Euelpides
Oh! oh! but he is very handsome with his wings as crimson as flame.

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