PISTHETAERUS Oh! no, no, no!
CINESIAS By Hermes! but indeed you shall. "I shall travel through thine ethereal empire like a winged bird, who cleaveth space with his long neck..."
PISTHETAERUS Stop! easy all, I say!(1)
f(1) The Greek word used here was the word of command employed to stop the rowers.
CINESIAS "...as I soar over the seas, carried by the breath of the winds..."
PISTHETAERUS By Zeus! but I'll cut your breath short.
CINESIAS "...now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether." (PISTHETAERUS BEATS HIM.) Ah! old man, that's a pretty and clever idea truly!
PISTHETAERUS What! are you not delighted to be cleaving the air?(1)
f(1) Cinesias makes a bound each time that Pisthetaerus strikes him.
CINESIAS To treat a dithyrambic poet, for whom the tribes dispute with each other, in this style!(1)