um. He

dfalls a garland. How well off we shall be, positively rolling in wealth! You see how much this boy brings in; not an obol, not a dress, not a pair of shoes, not a box of ointment, has he ever given

swore it, by the two

and the price of it went in drink. Another time it was the pair of Ionian necklaces that Praxias the Chian captain got made in Ephesus and brought you; two darics apiece

nd he is the son of Laches the Areopagite and Dinomache; and we shall be his real wife and

tions.' And the baker the same. And on rent-day we shall ask the man to wait till Laches of Collytus is dead; he shall have it af

he rest of them happier or

ou go in for constancy and true love, and will have nothing to say to anybody but your Chaereas. There was that farmer from Acharnae the other day; his chin was

ereas and let that nasty working-man (faugh!) com

here was Antiphon-son to Menecrates-and a whole mina; why not h

he would cut both our throa

our lovers for this, and be as good a girl as if you were a priestess of Demeter instead of

ar, he has n

instead of which he haunts and tyrannizes over us, neither giving himself nor letting us take from those who would. Do you expect to be eighteen all your life, Musarium? or that Chaereas will be of the

one everything to make him marry

true. I shall remind you of