ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY
INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES, BEING
THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION
οὐκ ἔσθω κενέβρει'· ὁπόταν δὲ θύῃς τι, κάλει με.
"I eat no carrion; when you sacrifice
Some cleanly creature—call me for a slice!"
Wind, wave, and bark, bear Euthukles and me,
Balaustion, from—not sorrow but despair,