EURIPIDES. Do you see yourself?
MNESILOCHUS. But this is not I, it is Clisthenes![564]
EURIPIDES. Stand up; I am now going to remove your hair. Bend down.
MNESILOCHUS. Alas! alas! they are going to grill me like a pig.
EURIPIDES. Come now, a torch or a lamp! Bend down and take care of the tender end of your tail!
MNESILOCHUS. Aye, aye! but I'm afire! oh! oh! Water, water, neighbour, or my rump will be alight!
EURIPIDES. Keep up your courage!
MNESILOCHUS. Keep my courage, when I'm being burnt up?
EURIPIDES. Come, cease your whining, the worst is over.
MNESILOCHUS. Oh! it's quite black, all burnt below there all about the hole!