I say, we knew that story of last year!

Therefore, at mention of Euripides,

The Captain crowed out, "Euoi, praise the God!

Oöp, boys, bring our owl-shield to the fore!

Out with our Sacred Anchor! Here she stands,

Balaustion! Strangers, greet the lyric girl!

Euripides! Babai! what a word there 'scaped

Your teeth's enclosure, quoth my grandsire's song!

Why, fast as snow in Thrace, the voyage through,

Has she been falling thick in flakes of him!