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Ah! you big coward! were you so frightened that you let go your jay?
Euelpides
And did you not lose your crow, when you fell sprawling on the ground? Tell me that.
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Pisthetaerus
Not at all.
Euelpides
Where is it, then?
Pisthetaerus
It flew away.
Euelpides
And you did not let it go? Oh! you brave fellow!
EpopsFrom within.
Open the thicket, that I may go out!
He comes out of the thicket.
Euelpides
By Heracles! what a creature! what plumage! What means this triple crest?
Epops
Who wants me?
EuelpidesBanteringly.
The twelve great gods have used you ill, it seems.
Epops
Are you twitting me about my feathers? I have been a man, strangers.
Euelpides
It's not you we are jeering at.
Epops
At what, then?
Euelpides
Why, it's your beak that looks so ridiculous to us.
Epops
This is how Sophocles outrages me in his tragedies. Know, I once was Tereus.
Euelpides
You were Tereus, and what are you now? a bird or a peacock?
Epops
I am a bird.
Euelpides
Then where are your feathers? I don't see any.
Epops
They have fallen off.
Euelpides
Through illness?
Epops
No. All birds moult their feathers, you know, every winter, and others grow in their place. But tell me, who are you?
Euelpides
We? We are mortals.
Epops
From what country?
Euelpides
From the land of the beautiful galleys.
Epops
Are you dicasts?
Euelpides
No, if anything,
we are anti-dicasts.
Epops
Is that kind of seed sown among you?
Euelpides
You have to look hard to find even a little in our fields.
Epops
What brings you here?

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