left. Evidently I had been walking slowly, for I was less

LEADER OF THE CHORUS (to PEACE)

Oh, thou, whom men of standing desired and who art good to

husbandmen, I have gazed upon thee with delight; and now I go to greet

my vines, to caress after so long an absence the fig trees I planted

Friends, let us first adore the goddess, who has delivered us from

crests and Gorgons; then let us hurry to our farms, having first

bought a nice little piece of salt fish to eat in the fields.

By Posidon! what a fine crew they make and dense as the crust of a

Great!（82）